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Autism Spectrum 101
Elements of Language
Receptive or Expressive Language?
Diagnosis of Autism
Autism Trivia
100
This is one of the most identifiable disorders on the spectrum which symptoms include impairments/delay of social interaction, impairment/delay communication, and repetitive behaviors.
What is autism?
100
When holding a conversation, students with autism are unable to maintain a steady tone/pace of voice. Which element of language is impaired?
What is morphology (expressive)?
100
This student will not realize they are being spoken to during a conversation.
What is receptive language (pragmatics)?
100
Children with autism will bee fixated with a certain behavior (such as twirling a pencil or stacking soup cans ) and will undergo specific rituals (such as waking up, putting on pants, brushing of the teeth, putting a shirt on, and then eating), is considered what part of the autism diagnosis criteria?
What are restricted/repetitive behaviors?
100
This is the average age of autism diagnosis in children.
What is 4 to 4 1/2 years of age?
200
Psychologists, developmental pediatricians, and psychiatrists do what?
Who diagnose disorders on the autism spectrum?
200
Kids with autism have difficulty establishing conversations and relationships. Which element of language does this impairment involve?
What are pragmatics (expressive)?
200
Kids with autism will have echolalia, where these children will repeat sounds, syllables, or words/phrases that have been spoken to them.
What is expressive language (phonology)?
200
Children with autism have difficulty making eye-to-eye contact during conversation, lack of emotion, and do not have the ability to develop peer relationships/friendships. What part of the diagnosis criteria does this impairment fall under?
What are social interaction impairments?
200
This is the approximate percentage of the autistic population who are unable to develop speech.
What is half (50%)?
300
This contains the criteria that is needed to make a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)?
300
Children with autism repeat sounds, syllables, and words. They also have difficulty focusing on speech that is spoken to them since they hear all sounds going on at the same volume (only to the child with autism). Which element of language do these difficulties refer to?
What is phonology (expressive and receptive, respectively)?
300
While being read to, a child will point to a picture as the reader names the object shown in the picture.
What is receptive language (morphological/syntactical)?
300
This part of criteria for diagnosis is when children with autism have a delay in spoken language, repetitive use of language, and echolalia are what types of impairments?
What are communication impairments?
300
The autism spectrum is also known by this name. DAILY DOUBLE: Can you name all five disorders on the spectrum?
What are Pervasive Developmental Disorders?