Autism therapies

In the article, Autism Spectrum Disorder, the National Institute of Mental Health provided an overview of the disorder and several key information that a person who is researching about autism should know. People with ASD often have a difficult time functioning normally in their daily life. They don’t commonly make eye contact when talking to someone and their actions and behaviors are repetitive. The Asperger’s syndrome and the autism disorder were said to be separated into different…

The cause of Autism is still unknown and the search for a cure is still underway. However, each medication used to treat Autism can causes a great number of dangerous side effects. These side effects can alter the child, potentially, for the rest of their life. The medication are far from helping 100 percent of the symptoms. There are highly successful method that have no lasting harmful effects on the child's physical body and they have the potential to cure 100 percent of the symptom. These…

Autism Developmental and behavioral Issues in assessing persons with autism spectrum disorder Main Point We live in a society where Autism Spectrum Disorder has become one of the most controversial topics of all times. It has become the fastest growing, misdiagnosed disorder known to man. This article Behavioral and Educational Approaches describes in depth about principles of behavior and therapies approaches. That are used to change behavior in a person with ASD to be effective playing a…

Autism and Aspergers Syndrome: Whats the Confusion? For many years there has been a lot of confusion between Autism and Asperger 's Syndrome mainly because Asperger 's Syndrome is on the Autism spectrum and children with either syndrome may show similar symptoms. Though they have a lot of similarities there are also some differences. For example, people with autism will usually have a delayed language development and the disorder will be able to be detected during childhood while children with…

There is a myth that people with autism have the same characteristics, and thus all are like Dustin Hoffman's character in "Rain Man." The reality, the characteristics of people with autism vary from one person to another because it is a spectrum disorder. The limitations and capabilities of one individual with autism cannot be compared to the capabilities and limitations of another individual with autism. There is also a myth that autism affects only children that have bad parents or careless…

someone on the Autism Spectrum, you know one individual.” No two individuals are alike due to the wide range of symptoms and severity of the Autism Spectrum. The range allows for a more inclusive way to give children as much help as possible. The DSM-IV broke up the “autism spectrum” into a few main categories: autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder. In the 2013 DSM-5, it combined those categories to make a dimensional approach called the Autism Spectrum…

Kilee Hards HTHRHSC 7718 Sensory Integration Therapy Introduction Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) typically demonstrate co-occurring sensory processing problems secondary to the typical diagnostic criteria according to the DSM-5. Due to these findings and numerous studies concerned with the apparent impairment in sensory modulation across multiple sensory systems, hyperactivity or hyporeactivity to sensory input have been included as a diagnostic criterion for ASD (Case-Smith et.al,…

Autistic Spectrum Disorder Autism is a rising problem that sometimes gets overshadowed by more menacing disorders like mental retardation which can fully hold back a persons life but it is nonetheless a problem. Autism makes a person less socially apt , they do not know how to interact with others and can act genuinely queer at times and so it can affect how they integrate into society. People with this disorder don 't have any major problems beyond but to think about how heavily it can…

Introduction Client JN is a twenty-year-old Caucasian male who is has high functioning Asperger’s syndrome, an Autism spectrum disorder. JN has been admitted approximately 10 times for psychiatric care at different facilities around the Birmingham area in the past. JN came into the emergency department by ambulance after an altercation with the step mother. JN’s step mother has been in an intimate relationship and living with JN’s mother for about 10 years. The step mother and JN have never…

people with autism are faced with. It can be quite hard to grasp exactly what these individuals go through, but the acting done by Sean Penn (Sam Dawson) in this movie is phenomenal and portrays an individual with autism very accurately. The purpose of this movie was to show that with enough love and support, raising a child while mentally challenged is possible. The intended audience of this film is quite honestly anyone who would like to view a touching story about a man with autism who fights…