Significant impairements in social and communication skills.
What Are Characteristics of Autism?
100
Children with autism display deficits in recognizing......
What is facial expressions and emotion?
100
Rocking back and forth clapping hands, flapping arms with such intensity that they begin to perspire.
What are self-stimulatory behaviors?
100
Approximatly___% have sever to profound impairments with IQ tests.
What is 40%?
100
The development of such an awareness of mental states in themselves and in others is referred to as mentalization or ToM . ToM is abbreviation for .....
What is Theory of mind?
200
Children vary widely in the form, pervasiveness, and severity of their symptons
What is a Spectrum Disorder?
200
the ability to coordinate attention to a social partner and object or event of mutual interest.
What is Joint attention?
200
One theory on why children use self stimuatory behaviors is because they crave stimulation and this excited their.....
What is nervous system?
200
percent of children that have mild to moderate impairments
What is 30%?
200
Percentage of children with autism that have a signficantly larger than normal head size.
What is 20%?
300
An anxious and obessive insistance on the maintence of sameness in daily routines.
What is preservation of sameness?
300
Joint attention typically emerges between .....(Age??)
What is 9-14 months?
300
One theory on why children engage in self stimulatory behavior is because?????........ therfore blocking out and controlling unwanted stimulation.
What is the environment is too much stimulation?
300
30% of children with autism have .....
What is average intelligence or above.
300
two disorders that often accompany autism.
What is mental retardation and epilepsy?
400
Once thought to be a milder form of Autism.
What is aspergers syndrome?
400
as many as one half of children with autism do not fully develop a usefull.....
What is language?
400
Children with Autism experiance profound difficulities in realting to ...
What is other people?
400
percentage of children that develop cognitive skill that is abouve average for the general population as well as their own general level of intellect.
What is 25%?
400
Gastrointestinal problems also can affect children with autsim mostly because....
food selectivity and unusual eating habits and obbsessions.
500
previously lumped together as a single condition; now however they are recognized as seperate disorders.
What is Childhood onset schizophrenia?
500
childs parrot like repitition of words or word combinations.
What is Echolalia?
500
People with Autism also have difficulty understanding and using .....
What is gestures?
500
About 5 % of children with autism develope and isolated and often remakeable talent that far excedes normally developing children of the same age. These children are referred to as ....
What is Autisic Savants?
500
children with autism find _______ less rewarding than children without.