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The difference between high-functioning and ASD and Asperger's is not significant enough.
Why is Asperger's no longer accepted as a diagnosis?
The type of memory that allows us to learn procedures, skills, and actions.
What is procedural?
The pattern of stress and intonation in a language.
What is prosody?
The percentage of those diagnosed with ASD who remain disabled into adulthood.
What is 90%
The behavior of a person with ASD whose routine has been changed
What is agitation or hysterics?
Normal or precocious language acquisition
What is the distinctive feature of Asperger Syndrome?
The type of memory that is our multisensory "video"
What is episodic?
The two best predictors of the outcome of testing for ASD.
What are early social and language development?
A spontaneous seeking to share experiences.
What is joint attention?
A "tape-recorded level of play".
What is playing while requiring a verbatim recital of a video a child with ASD has memorized?
The Autism Diagnostic Interview and the Autism Diagnostic Observation System.
What are the dominant methods of diagnosing ASD?
The type of memory where we store pieces of information and facts.
What is declarative?
According to Denckla, the age by which ASD should be diagnosed or at least strongly suspected.
What is two years?
Expressing your own needs and being aware that the other person also has needs.
What is social-emotional reciprocity?
A colloquial term for self-stimulating behavior by persons with ASD
What is stimming?
How those with ASD fail in multitasking during communication.
What is processing both the words and the tone of voice?
Learning and remembering certain kinds of information.
What are the strengths of a child with high-functioning ASD?
Two benefits of a classroom aide for a child with ASD
What is helping the child shift attention and move through the program?
The two reasons younger children with atypical brains are difficult to study
What is they are too young to cooperate with an MRI or formal neuropsychology?
For inclusion, two challenges for a child with ASD
What are poor shifting of attention, overfocus, inflexibility when problem-solving, not coping well with the speed of the flow of auditory information, nonliteral use of language, tone of voice connoting a message different than the message of the words?
Their words and the way their voices carry the words
What are the things that make those with ASD sound "Weird"?
Kanner's belief about the origin of ASD. It prompted treatments that were not useful and were expensive.
What is the concept of "refrigerator parents"?
The advantage of having everything written down for children with ASD in the classroom
What is keeping things visually organized and avoiding the child's tendency to overfocus on a single part or feature of a topic?
The three core deficits of any person in the autistic spectrum.
What are atypical communication, atypical social interaction, and a restricted repetitive repertoire of behavior?
For inclusion, two strengths of a child with ASD.
Verbal and high functioning, good at rote memorization, good at retaining concrete literal information, detail-oriented, rule followers.