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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.…

Nasal resonance and airflow can also be impacted by cleft lip and/or palate. The abnormal nasal resonance and airflow cause hypernasal and hyponasal speech. Hypernasal speech occurs when there is too much airflow coming through the nasal cavity making sounds more breathy. Hyponasal speech occurs when too little airflow comes through the nasal cavity making the sounds sound as if the child has a plugged nose (Nagarajan, Savitha, & Subramaniyan, 2009). Velopharyngeal dysfunction is the…

Tourette’s Syndrome Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder defined by sudden, repetitive, involuntary movements or vocalizations called tics. The worst symptoms are first noticed in childhood before the age of 18 years with improvement into late teens and adulthood. Males are affected three to four times more often than females. Approximately 200,000 individuals have a severe form of TS. Tic disorders can occur in all ethnic and cultural groups and tend to be genetic. Evidence…

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 &…

Autism and autism spectrum disease (ASD) are complex childhood developmental disorders characterized by impaired social interaction, which is a very devastating disease that affects the entire family. There are huge public and political attention turned to the topic that the MMR vaccine has possible association with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ASD and autism. Previously, there was suggestion that if measles, mumps and rubella vaccines given separately, it could be beneficial and will…

Most children develop speech and language without effort, although there is considerable variation in the rate at which children acquire language with approximately 7% of children demonstrating impairments in these skills. Understanding the influences on children’s language development in the general population may indicate potential avenues for the causes of these impairments which may lead to the development of new intervention methods. Those influences could be either internal to the child or…

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is a type of triple repeat disorder that is prevalent in both males and females. FXS is inherited and causes the person to have an intellectual disability (Batshaw, Roizen, & Lotrecchiano, 2013). References Batshaw, M.L., Roizen, N.J., & Lotrecchiano, G.R. (2013). Children with Disabilities (7th ed.). Baltimore, MD: Brookes McDuffie, A., Machalicek, W. A., Bullard, L., Nelson, S., Mello, M., Tempero-Feigles, R., & ... Abbeduto, L. (2016). A…

The effect of perceptual motor intervention on gross and fine motor skills and Social Deficit of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Abstract: This investigation examined the effects of perceptual-motor intervention on gross and fine motor skills along with social deficiency of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Eighteen school aged children with ASD were randomly selected to an experimental (n=9) or a control group (n=9). The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP)…

Childhood Apraxia of Speech Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder that involves difficulty of the brain in planning the oral movements needed to produce speech sounds. It is not a muscle weakness; the brain has problems coordinating and sequencing muscle movements to produce the sounds or words that the child is attempting to say (Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Overview, 2015). The core problem includes both input processing, as well as production. The prevalence of CAS…

or, you always feel clumsy and like an outcast that is what happens when you have Aspergers. Many people with Aspergers can not keep a job because of their social skills. There are many diverse treatments and no one treatment is better than another. Aspergers syndrome affects many social aspects of a person's life. People with Aspergers has many employment difficulties, treatments, and characteristics. Having Asperger limits the number of jobs you can have. “Although individuals with AS may…