Intervention
Neurology
Assessment
Characteristics
History
100
This program provides students at Adelphi University with support services to help them navigate college.
What is the Bridges to Adelphi program?
100
This part of the brain is responsible for responses related to fear and anxiety.
What is the amygdala?
100
Three professions responsible for making the Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis.
What is a medial doctor, a psychologist or a neuropsychologist?
100
People with Asperger's syndrome often have trouble deciphering these two forms of nonverbal communication.
What are facial expressions and body language?
100
In 1994, Asperger's Syndrome was introduced into this manual.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
200
An evidence-based service, training, and research program for individuals of all ages and skill levels with autism spectrum disorders.
What is the TEACCH program?
200
There has been noted differences in this part of the brain (known as the "emotional brain.")
What is the limbic system?
200
These professionals are part of the multi-disciplinary team that are responsible for screening and diagnosing speech and language deficits, creating intervention plans and counseling families of individuals with Asperger's Syndrome.
What is Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS)?
200
People with Asperger's Syndrome tend to speak with a vocal quality that does not allow for much expression.
What is monotonicity?
200
This psychiatrist worked at Johns Hopkins University and was responsible for promoting the "Refrigerator Mother Theory."
Who is Leo Kanner?
300
The SCERTS model builds competence in these three skills.
What is social communication, emotional regulation and transactional support?
300
Proteins such as these have been suggested to contribute to Asperger's Syndrome.
What are misfolded neural proteins?
300
Assessment tool that measures the ability to use pragmatic language effectively using 6 sub-tests.
What is the Test of Pragmatic Language (TOPL)?
300
This happens when a child with Asperger's Syndrome WANTS to play with others but does not know how, so the child ends up showing extreme interaction.
What is over-initiation?
300
Hans Asperger, an Austrian Pediatrician, was responsible for originally using this term to describe a person with Autistic tendencies.
What is "autistic psychopathy"?
400
This intervention strategy provides the client with advanced pictures of emotions and further allows the client to rate the intensity of the emotion.
What is the Feelings Book?
400
Differences in use and absorptions of these three neurotransmitters are thought to contribute to Asperger's Syndrome
What is serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine?
400
This diagnostic tool is performed via direct observation and is considered the "golden standard" in Autism testing.
What is Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS)?
400
In this way of thinking, it is hard to read "between the lines" or to understand a hidden message.
What is concrete thinking/literal translation?
400
Autism stems from the Greek root word, meaning "self".
What is "autos"?
500
This intervention method requires a comprehension of pictures and helps the child to understand that communication is used for requesting and describing.
What is the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)?
500
The limbic system is responsible for this type of memory, which is usually intensified in people with Asperger's Syndrome.
What is declarative memory?
500
A behavioral rating scale of 32 items that identifies and helps diagnose individuals ages 3-22 with AS
What is Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS)?
500
An extreme focus or obsession with a specific item or material.
What is perseveration?
500
This British child psychiatrist was responsible for republishing Han Asperger's research.
Who is Lorna Wing?
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