ADHD
How many types of ADHD are there?
Three (Predominantly Inattentive, Predominantly hyperactive/impulsive, and combined)
Name a tool used to accommodate dysgraphia (physical aid)
Pencil grips, highlighted/raised margin paper, slant board, finger spacers.
Name the likelihood of boys being diagnosed with ASD compared to girls.
Four times as likely
Name one or more reasons why individuals with ASD are occasionally thought to have no empathy.
Masking, reduced facial expressions, lack of awareness.
Name one symptom of ADHD (predominantly hyperactive/impulsive type)
Often fidget or squirm/not good at waiting for their turn/often interrupt others
True or False: Is Dysgraphia a developmental disorder obtained only via development?
False. Brain injury can also cause it to manifest.
Name the defining trait that individuals with Childhood Disintegrative Disorder show in addition to symptoms and traits similar to Asperger's syndrome and Autistic disorder.
A noticeable loss/regression of previously acquired skills following at least two years of apparently normal development.
True or False: Schools with LD labels had lower expectations of kids with LDs compared to those who did not.
True.
Name one thing that is helpful for both ADHD and autistic children.
Fidget toys.
Name one or more subtype(s) of Dysgraphia
Motor, Spatial, Lexical, Phonologic, Linguistic
Which psychiatrist would use the term 'Autism' to document patients who exhibited symptoms similar to our definition of the word today?
Grunya Efimovna
Name one or more cultural reasons for why people may have LDs
Spiritual, ancestor punishment, parental punishment, religious reasons.
What is the percentage of children with ADHD who have an anxiety disorder?
30%
Name one or more symptom(s) of Dysgraphia
Spacing, grammar and punctual errors, flipped letters/forming letters, margin and straight line difficulty.
True or False: An individual with ASD cannot experience both hypersensitivity and hyposensitivity to external stimuli.
False. An individual with ASD can show hypersensitivity to some stimuli, but also hyposensitivity to other stimuli.
True or False: ADHD in children is caused by bad parenting.
False. The disorder comes from the accumulation of many environmental and genetic risk factors.
How many people in Canada are affected by ADHD?
1.8 million
One accommodation for Dysgraphia can be in the form of supplied notes. What are peer notetakers paid for a semester (as of this current semester at UBCO)?
$406.90
In what year were most of the symptoms we associate with ASD first observed, and by whom?
Many of the symptoms we associate with ASD were first observed in 1944 by American child psychiatrist Leo Kanner.
Is an individual able to "grow out of" these disorders?
No. The three are neurodevelopmental disorders, meaning that the brain of the individual is quite literally wired differently.