High-functioning autism

Finnley Maier The Autism Spectrum in the films: Adam, Rain Man, Temple Grandin, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Mary and Max Disorder Description: The autism spectrum explains a range of conditions categorized as neurodevelopmental disorders. The autism spectrum includes not only autism but also disorders ranging from childhood-disintegrated disorder to Asperger’s syndrome. The autism spectrum is characterized by difficulty in communication, social insufficiencies, repetitive…

Asperger’s syndrome is as well as what Autism spectrum disorders are.How much do you really know about these disorders? Many people are afraid of these disorders because they don’t understand them. The following research should will be able to help people reformulate their knowledge on these topics. You hear the name Asperger’s and you know it sounds familiar, Because it is, but what is this disorder? Asperger’s syndrome is one of the known disorders on the Autism spectrum. People who…

Educating Children with Autism outlines an interdisciplinary approach to education for children with autism. These scores are important in characterizing samples and allowing independent investigators to replicate specific findings, given the wide variability of intelligence within the autism spectrum. For example, deficits in aspects of Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist that was famous for his four stages of cognitive development for children, which included the development of language.…

Autism is widely characterized by being a neurodevelopmental disorder in which the effected individual has impaired social interaction, repetitive behavior, and in some cases no communication ability. Autism being on a spectrum perspective, a vast array of symptoms can categorize an individual as being “autistic”. ASD includes Asperger’s Disorder, Kanner’s Syndrome, Rett’s Syndrome, and PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder). While all disorders are challenging, severity of behaviors depend…

of the autism spectrum but differs in the early development of language from other developmental disorders. Asperger’s Syndrome and high functioning autism are often referred to as the same condition. Individuals with both Asperger’s and high functioning autism have average or above average intelligence, but may have issues involving social situations and communication. However, these are two different conditions and while they do present themselves similarly, cases of high functioning autism…

While autism is highly heritable, researchers suspect both environmental and genetic factors as causes. In rare cases, autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects. An autistic culture has developed, with some individuals seeking a cure and others believing autism should be accepted as a difference and not treated as a disorder. As of 2010, the number of people affected is estimated at about 1–2 per 1,000 worldwide. It occurs four to five times more often in boys than girls…

severe symptoms (Nydén et al., 2000), which could support the idea that both X-chromosomes in females have to be mutated in order for females to develop the disorder. Because the females that are diagnosed with ASD tend to be classified as low functioning more often than males, females require more abnormalities in their genes in order to manifest the symptoms of ASD (Szatmari et al., 2012). In research that looks at family genetic history of ASD, it was found that females with ASD have more…

What is Asperger’s/Prevalence Rates Asperger’s Syndrome is on the “high-functioning” end of the autism spectrum of disorders, a person with Asperger’s has a high or above average IQ, will get fixated on a single subject, and has low quality communication and social skills. Due to these low quality communication and social skills, Asperger children often deal with mistreatment at home and bullying in the school environment. Typically, children with Asperger’s syndrome want to make friends,…

There are many different fields of social work. Child, family, and school social workers also known as child welfare social workers, family service social workers or child protective services social workers provide assistance to improve the and functioning of children and their families. Social workers involved in the school setting to work with parents and teachers as a link between the academic and personal connection between the two. This field is expected to grow by around 12% and is deemed…

individualists who have made a significant contribution to the disability field of behavior disorders. They are all professors at major universities and have written and researched extensively in the field. Lovass has made a huge difference in how autism is treated and the age and intensity of the treatment. There are questions about his 47% recovery rate but there does seem to be an increased ability to function of individuals from his study. Foxx has contributed studies since 1971 to the…