Aspergers
Autism
Assessment
Theories and Teaching
100
Some highly verbal and intelligent people with Aspergers might seem like they have an extreme disregard for social cues. This is complete disregard of what?
What is Social Etiquette?
100
The qualities of people with autism that include deficits in social responsiveness, babies or toddlers who don't respond normally, no differential response to parents or teachers, lack of smile in social situations or a smile or laugh that seems inappropriate.
What is Impaired Social Interaction?
100
What 3 categories do you need to show symptoms of in order to be diagnosed with autism according to DSM criteria?
What is social impairment, communication impairment, and restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior.
100
These functions include working memory, and the ability to plan ahead and the difficulties with these functions are more severe for people with autism than those with ADHD.
What are executive functions
200
The do's and don'ts of social interactions that most people learn through experience or with little instruction.
What is the hidden curriculum?
200
50% of children with autism are thought to be this.
What is mute?
200
Impairment in the use of nonverbal behaviors, failure to develop peer relationships, lack of seeking to share things with other people, and lack of social or emotional reciprocity are symptoms in what category?
What is social impairment
200
The ability to see someone else's point of view. People with autism have difficulty understanding this concept and some may not understand that other people have thoughts that differ from their own.
What is theory of mind
300
A delay in this is not part of APA's diagnostic criteria for those with Aspergers.
What is language?
300
When children with autism parrot what they hear.
What is echolalia?
300
Name 2 symptoms under the category of communicative impairment
What is 1. delay in, or lack of development of spoken language. 2. impairments in the ability to initiate or sustain conversation with others 3. stereotyped and repetitive use of language or idiosyncratic language 4. lack of varied, spontaneous make-believe play or social imitative play appropriate to developmental level
300
This organization created a list of 6 educational considerations for people with autism. (Name three of these considerations in your answer for full credit)
What is the National Research Council 1. Functional, spontaneous communication (rehearse how to greet a professor for example) 2. Social skills that are age appropriate 3. Play skills with peers 4. Cognitive skills (what to think about everyday) 5. Appropriate behavior to replace problem behavior 6. Functional academic skills
400
Those with Aspergers often have trouble with this, or the social uses of language.
What is Pragmatics?
400
An individual with severe autism whose social and language skills are markedly delayed but who also has advanced skills in a particular area.
What is Autistic Savants?
400
Students will not be classified in the Autism Spectrum if their symptoms are better accounted for by what other disorders?
What is Rett's Disorder and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
400
The ability to see the forest through the trees.
What is central coherence
500
A skill that those with Aspergers also have trouble with. This deals with staring, invasion of personal space, and poor eye contact.
What is non-verbal communication.
500
In the movie, watched in class, this is described as the "voice of autism."
What is art?
500
What is the universally used diagnostic test for autism?
What is none
500
Actions used to help self-regulate. This was seen often in the CNN video with students slapping tables or shaking their heads to help regulate themselves in an educational setting.
What is stimming
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