Autism

When referring to Autism today, many people use the term (ASD) Autism Spectrum Disorder. ASD is defined as a brain disorder resulting in restricted repetitive behaviors, interests, activities, and social-communication challenges. Also, it is defined as a developmental issue that causes significant behavioral, social and communication challenges. This caught my interest, because in class we discuss a lot about learned behaviors, as well as attention deficits. And I wanted to understand what…

Introduction According to Deris and Carlo (2013), the amount of children that have autism has increased from one in 150 to one in 88 from the year 2000 to 2008. As the amount of children that are born and diagnosed with autism rises, the pressure for teachers to cope with this disorder will rise as well. Children with autism have a wide variety of characteristics that they display such as, repeated and restrictive behaviors, delays in social interaction, symbolic imaginative play and language,…

Autism is still widely recognized as a misunderstood diagnosis, as there is no definite reasoning for its occurrence. The understanding surrounding autism varies greatly depending on the personal perspectives of the family, their socioeconomic status, as well as their opinions on biomedicine. Using a bio cultural approach, this…

The Link between the MMR vaccine and Autism: Is there such a thing? In today’s society, vaccines are a normal thing. We’ve all had them, and we at least know what a vaccine is and what it can do. Vaccines have been around ever since 1796, when Edward Jenner released a smallpox vaccine, and have continued to develop as technology has evolved throughout the years. The 20th century was when vaccines started to blow up and have become more common. But even though they have done so much good to us…

greatest book to be read in a grade 9 English class. Written in 2003, this book shows a real understanding of autism and the struggles people with autism face. The award-winning author, Mark Haddon, not only created one of the most believable, original and heart-wrenching books of the decade but he gave the readers an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of a person with autism, a feat which has not been achieved before. The readers follow Christopher Boone’s quest to solve the murder…

Autism spectrum is a disorder that makes people unable to have relationships with other people, they are incapable in social interaction, and they have less to no speech and a limited interest in activities. Autism is mostly in males instead of females. The signs are most commonly discovered when the child is a toddler. They drastic change between one day to the next. One day they can be happily saying a new word they just learned and they next day they won’t say the word at all, as if they…

Parenting in itself and dealing with the average circumstances is difficult and a cause of great stress among families. But often times an extraordinary situation is found within families, and one is Autism. Through research of observation and surveys, there is evidence of how children with High Functioning Autism affect the family through stresses in relationships to both parents and other siblings, and how that child influences the family’s activities and decisions. In a study done Patricia…

groups are debating the main question, do vaccines cause autism? One group of stakeholders tends to say that there is no link between vaccines and autism. These people tend to care about the research that medical professionals have taken over decades past. Another group believes that there really is a link between vaccines and autism. These stakeholders care about the research and stories about people taking vaccines, then getting symptoms of autism afterward. Looking at research and listening…

known as Autism. Autism can cause a child to be unsocial, or not starting to speak at the same time as others their age. However, many people don't really understand Autism completely. It is very important to know what Autism is, how Autism is caused, and the symptoms for diagnosing Autism. Autism is a disorder discovered by two different people at two different times. The first person who discovered the disorder was an American man, Leo Kanner. The second person who discovered Autism was an…

session and were accompanied by some other deficits in communication, social interaction, as well as repetitive and stereotyped behavior. These behaviors persisted in such a way by the completion of our session, I decided to give Caleb a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Even shy people will occasionally make eye contact out of politeness during typical social interactions. By fourteen years old, most teenagers are aware of this social courtesy; therefore, Caleb’s constant overtness in not…