4. Equity: We promote fair and equitable access to supports, opportunities and services for all individuals on the autism spectrum; and strive for equity and fairness in decision making and in our relationships with others. 5. Integrity and Accountability: We act with honesty, integrity and openness in all dealings; adhere to high ethical and performance standards and manage resources in a responsible and prudent manner. 6.…
Autism Rocks Solo Capital Autism Rocks aim is to create public awareness about autism. The UK based charity organization receives funding from concerts and individual and corporate donations to fund research. Autism Rocks was founded in 29014 by business man Sanjay Shah, the founder of Solo Capitals. Since its inception, the organization has hosted several successful events including the charity events, launch parties and various performances by leading musicians. Some of the big names involved in Autism Rocks campaign include Snoop Dog, Lenny Kravitz, Joss Stone and Elvis Costello.…
Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) is characterised by impairments in communication and socialisation, alongside repetitive and stereotyped behaviours (Association Psychiatric Association, 2013). Differences in risk of ASC are associated with socioeconomic disparities, whereby ASC tends to be overrepresented in high socioeconomic status (SES) families. Early clinical (Cox et al., 1975; Finnegan et al., 1979; Hoshino et al., 1982; McCarthy et al., 1979) and population-based studies (Bhasin & Schendel, 2007; Durkin et al. 2010; Lotter, 1967; Treffert, 1970; Williams et al., 2008) have reported positive associations between ASC and SES, measured by parental education, occupation or income. However, other studies (Cialdella & Mamelle, 1989; Croen…
References: American Psychological Association(APA). (2002). Glossary of Psychological Terms. Retrieved February 10, 2016, from http://www.apa.org/research/action/glossary.aspx Autism Speaks. (2007).…
The topic I have chosen is Asperger's Spectrum disorder. Some of the questions I will be asking are what are the steps to take when diagnosed with Asperger's and how it will effect your life. If I am diagnosed and decide to have children will they inherit the disorder? Will the systems become worse or weaken over time? Will the insurance companies cover the medical bills, medications, and counseling?…
1. I used the search terms “parent intervention for toddlers” on the One Search database. I chose to use this article in particular because it met criteria for the assignment (i.e. single research study written by the researchers who conducted the study). The reference for the article is: Kasari, C., Gulsrud, A., Paparella, T., Hellemann, G., & Berry, K. (2015). Randomized comparative efficacy study of parent-mediated interventions for toddlers with autism.…
Autism is impairment of growth consists the function of the brain which causes the individual have difficulty time communicating with others. They tend to repeat same patterns of their behavior. The medical conditions of autism refer to spectrum condition, sleeping disorder, functional disorder, immune system and mental issues such as, anxiety, depression, stress, fear, anger, mood, impaired relationship with reality having hallucination and delusion, eating disorder, impulse control disorder, personality disorders and other disorders, etc. An autistic boy named John Haygood who is 10-year-old was arrested last week in Florida for assaulting his teacher and he did not know what happened at school. John Haygood mother was recording the police…
Source 4:http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/mental-health-aspergers-syndrome Date: 20/20/2016 Summary: Asperger’s Syndrome is a type of Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), which is a condition that causes a person’s socialisation skills and imagination skills to develop at a slow pace, slower than normal. There are a few PDDs and they are measured on a spectrum.…
Summary Ajit Narayanan describes his work surrounding children with autism. With regard to language, the main issue that children on the spectrum experience is difficulty with abstraction and symbolism. After all, language is an arbitrary representation of reality. Therefore, pictures rather than words have been shown to aid these children with comprehension. In particular, Narayanan (2014) developed a program called Avaz, which essentially converts sequenced pictures into spoken sentences.…
For my interview paper about how the views on development has changed throughout life, I interviewed a 65 year old, caucasian, woman named Debbie Canipe. She is my maternal grandmother. She lived with her two brothers and sister, along with her mother and father. She grew up here and grew a family here with her husband, Bill. She still lives in Centerburg today…
From sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, other relatives, or friends, people know of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Perhaps it is because according to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (2013), about 1% of the world population has been diagnosed with ASD. Though there are several impairments that affect both children and adults, the younger individuals tend to have a very difficult time with several new concepts. One of those concepts is Theory of Mind (ToM). While it may seem like a confusing topic, it is very crucial to the development of Autistic children.…
For many expecting parents, the most exciting thing about having a child of their own is not only to have someone to love unconditionally, but also to be loved unconditionally in return. Unfortunately, there are a number of disorders that can affect infants from birth that would impair their ability to return their parents’ affection. Autism is one of these disorders and is the most severe neurodevelopmental disorder classified within the autism spectrum disorders (ASD)— a group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. Specifically, autism is characterized by deficits in social interactions and communication, and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviors (Johnson, 2004).…
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by social-interaction difficulties, communication challenges, and a tendency to want to engage in repetitive behaviors. However, symptoms and their severity vary widely across these three core areas. Taken together, they may result in relatively mild challenges for someone on the high functioning end of the autism spectrum. For others, symptoms may be more severe, as when repetitive behaviors and lack of spoken language interfere with everyday life. People diagnosed with Autism Spectrum disorder are sensory-based thinkers, and sensitive hearing just like animals.…
Tb) Unique Human Cognitive Ontogeny To achieve his second objective, that is to provide evidence on the uniqueness of human cognitive ontogeny while it is related to cultural learning ontogeny that he has proved already. He uses a second line of evidence, where he compares normal children with autistic children and benefits a third line of evidence when he compares children, wild and enculturated chimpanzees. Providing evidence that cognition has not developed in normal way in autistic children, he concludes that - although they are of different groups- they are certainly incapable of cultural learning since the common denominator among all of them is the problem to relation to other persons, stating that “Autistic children thus show little…
The fastest growing disability right now is Autism. According to Gargiulo (2014), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects one’s ability on their social interaction skills. An individual with ASD also displays repetitive interests and behaviors and an impaired development in verbal and non-verbal communication. Some of the many characteristics of individuals with ASD are aggressiveness, hyperactiveness, short attention span, impulsive, hard time concentrating, often causing injury to themselves, little or no eye contact, and obsession with a certain toy or object. They may or may not have an understanding of the concept of Theory of mind which is knowing that others have their own mind that consists of their…