1. How does autism affect one’s behavior? 2. Is there treatments or therapies that help people with autism to gain verbal skills? 3. What can we do for those who has autism to help them with social-phobia? 4. Is there a limit to the storage in the visual video“library”? 5. Can those with autistic brain ever become normal? For my third question, I want to know how can we help the autistic kids get over the social-phobia. As Grandin mentioned, those people with autism are…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates autism’s prevalence as 1 in 68 children in the United States. Autism affects mostly affects one’s actions. In other words, it affects social, emotional, and communication skills, as well as, having different behavior patterns. Autism conditions can be detected from the early age of two or three years. Although, having autism can be seen as a negative thing to have, however, there have been numerous people with the autism disorder to…
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder of early onset, highly variable in its clinical presentation. It includes the development of abnormal cortical circuitry that underlies autistic cognitive processes, social impairment and other behaviors. According to National autism association (2014), autism is the fastest growing developmental disorder, which affects 1 in 68 children. Autism greatly varies from person to person. The rate of autism has steadily grown over…
back emotion to a person. When Farkle took his IQ and aptitude test, they told him that he was a genius,He already knew that, but they also told him he has Asperger 's disorder. Asperger Syndrome Disorder (ASD) was founded by Han asperger. Han identified the behavior and ability in asperger syndrome. He called it the autistic psychopathy. Asperger had a patterned that had lack of empathy, the inability to form friends, and have special interest in certain subjects, and they can also be clumsy.…
Asperger syndrome is “ a developmental disorder characterized by severely impaired social skills, repetitive behaviors, and often a narrow set of interest, but not involving delayed development of linguistic and cognitive abilities” (Dictionary). Aspergers is a type of autism. This type of autism does not only affect the people with this disease it also affects all the people around them like their teachers, classmates, and especially their parents and siblings. Asperger syndrome is sometimes…
Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a one of five autistic spectrum disorders. AS is also recognized by some as a neurological disorder. Sufferers of this syndrome share many of the same characteristics of autism except the accompanying disabilities. The syndrome can exhibit a variety of characteristics ranging from mild to severe. Those afflicted with AS have difficulty understanding what people around them think and feel. As a result, they often behave inappropriately in social situations or do…
Unfortunately, the exact cause of Asperger 's has still yet to be discovered (1). Scientist, psychologists, and an array of other professional researchers have agreed that it is related to autism and that the cause is a defect in the neurological connections within the brain. Cases of Asperger 's also show cases of Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise…
patients with schizophrenia who withdrew themselves from reality. Originated from the Greek word, “autós” and autism was used by Bleuler to define these individuals with abnormal self admiration and severe withdrawal from others. Decades later, Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner pioneered into the research of autism. In 1943, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner published a paper describing a subset of children who were highly intelligent however exhibited “a powerful desire for aloneness” and “an…
Imagine living in a gigantic city; next, picture being a person who sees every place as too crowded, everyone on the subway as too loud, and imagine recoiling at the touch of someone standing too close for comfort. This is how someone with Asperger syndrome (AS) feels on a daily basis. All of those situations might seem perfectly ordinary, but to someone with AS, they are extremely overwhelming. AS is a disorder with many descriptions. Rebecca J. Frey, PH.D. and Kathleen A. Fergus, MS, define AS…
readers about Asperger Syndrome (AS). To better educate the reader, this paper will describe Asperger Syndrome, the associated characteristics, causes, impacts at school and at home, intervention methods, and assistive technology in reference to the affect they have on children with Asperger Syndrome. Various sources including peer reviewed journal articles, reputable websites, and other textual information were used to comprise the information in this paper. Children with Asperger Syndrome may…