Vocabulary
Statistics
Parts of the Brain
Causes of Autism
RANDOM
100
neurological disorders that severely weaken social, communicative and cognitive functions.
What is autism?
100
60,000 dollars
What is the cost a family spends on autism per year?
100
emotional responses including aggressive behavior
What is the Amygdala?
100
These are called certain factors; maternal illness during the pregnancy, the age of the parents when conceiving the child, a low birth weight, oxygen deprivation to the baby’s brain, and prematurity. Mothers who have been exposed to pesticides and air pollution during pregnancy may result in the birth of a child having ASD.
What are environmental risk factors?
100
Around 63 percent of children with ASD were...............at some point in their life
What is bullied?
200
The three things that autism affects or weakens?
What are social, communicative and cognitive functions?
200
2-3 years old?
What is the age autism is usually detected?
200
The part of the brain that is responsible for higher mental functions, general movements, perception and behavioral reactions
What is the cerebral cortex?
200
Women who take certain vitamins with a specific chemical called ****** before and after conception are less likely to have a child with autism
What is folic acid?
200
The most common pervasive developmental disorder (PDD)
What is autism?
300
A wide variation of the way something affects people
What is spectrum?
300
over 137 billion dollars
How much is spent a year on autism?
300
located at the back of the brain
What is the cerebellum?
300
the perfect of a genetic cause of a persons autism that is able to be detected
What is 15 percent?
300
Many people with ASD use hand languages, pictures and body movements to ........
What is communication?
400
Autism Spectrum Disorder is also referred to as
What is ASD?
400
1.5 billion people
What is the number of people in the US with autism?
400
located at the front of the cerebellum and is responsible for delivering messages to certain parts of the body
What is the brain stem?
400
the number of autism risk genes that scientists detected
What is 100 risk genes?
400
the main cause of autism
What is unknown?
500
determining the severity of disorder or any disorder through..
What is cognitive testing?
500
1 in 88 children
What is a known as a 10 fold increase?
500
responsible for remembering new information and recent events
What is the hippocampus?
500
Having certain genes that may increase the susceptibility rates of autism within a pregnancy
What is genetic vulnerability?
500
repeating things back that were already said is known as
What is Echolalia?
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