Autism

1. In your own words, name the three criterion that comprise the IDEA definition for intellectual disabilities and give some details for each one. Autism as a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction. Deaf-Blindness were hearing and visual impairments causes such severe communication. Developmental Delay were there is a delay in physical development, cognitive development, communication; social or emotional development.…

Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder before two-years old, E. received all the services Early Intervention provides. By age three his parents felt there was an expressive, creative “boy inside” that was not being reached, and discovered dance/movement therapy. Longitudinal videotapes, live performance, group dancing and discussion with the dance/movement therapist, E., and his mother chronicle E.’s journey. Using a transdisciplinary approach including the creative arts and DIR®/Floortime,…

If a child is suspected to have a developmental delay they will be evaluated. These skills are age related and will vary by age. The evaluations will take place in such areas as gross motor skills, which encompasses the usage of large muscle groups for movement. These movements include walking, running, and sitting. Gross motor skills are also important for balance. Fine motor skills are motor movements that use smaller more refined muscle movement. These would be using pincer skills needed to…

(Hallahan, et al., 2014). For some students with ASD, a small change in environment will result in an angry outburst. In order to accommodate for this situation, it is important for the teacher to keep the classroom the same. Lifespan issues related to Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD can have lifelong effects on an individual that must be considered from childhood through adulthood. This discussion has been separated into a subcategory for early childhood issues and adulthood issues in order to…

1. The name of the disorder that interested me was Pervasive Developmental Disorder or PDD. PDD is now has recently been classified as just Autism Spectrum Disorder. 2. PDD is any of several disorders of childhood that are characterized by significantly atypical behaviors and severe impairment in the ability to relate to others. Some characteristics include: Atypical or social behavior, uneven skill development, poor speech and comprehension skills, difficulty with transitions, deficits in…

mother. The play concludes with Christopher finding his mother (who had cheated on his father), reconciling with his dad, and passing an important math test. Overall, the play is a riveting domestic drama that highlights the hardships a child with autism and/or separated parents faces which is enhanced by special effects that immerses the audience within the performance. Furthermore, this play was riveting…

What employment options are available for people with autism? When analyzing the topic of employment options available for people with autism, the research method used in all five articles was surveys. All of the studies and findings were based on self- report surveys provided by the researcher in order to gain feedback and statistics on a certain group of individuals over a course of ten years. The individuals were randomly chosen out of groups of children enrolled in a special education…

Years of research as proven that the best interventions/treatments for children with autism need to be scientific in nature. This was no different with Reeve, Reeve, Townsend and Poulson (2007) in their intervention for children with autism to learn a new skills. In the research study presented, they were interested in teaching positive social behavior in the form of helping behavior. For this purpose of this paper, I’ll identify the independent variables, dependent variables and the…

class had to choose one book that pertained to their field of study. I am a psychology major so what pertained my field was human services and the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime demonstrated this. I wanted to learn more about autism because I never really understood what it was and how it affected someone’s way of thinking and way of perceiving of the world. The way the book was written seemed unorganized but this was to describe how personal the character, Christopher,…

Asperger’s Syndrome, which is also known as Asperger’s Disorder, was originally described by Hans Asperger. Asperger was studying several cases in which patients had symptoms similar to those of autism; however, Asperger noticed that unlike autism, patients in the cases he was studying were experiencing more motor deficits and fewer speech delays. Asperger also noticed that all of the patients experiencing these additional symptoms were boys, and of the boys who were experiencing the symptoms,…