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What does AAC stand for?
What is it?
- augmentative and alternative communication
- AAC means all of the ways that someone communicates besides talking. People of all ages can use AAC if they have trouble with speech or language skills. Augmentative means to add to someone’s speech. Alternative means to be used instead of speech. Some people use AAC throughout their life. Others may use AAC only for a short time, like when they have surgery and can’t talk.
True or false?
People with autism are best suited for jobs that entail repetitive tasks.
Since autism is a spectrum disorder, there is no specific type of job that will be appropriate for all individuals with ASD. While many adults with ASD may enjoy repetitive tasks, it is incorrect to assume a job is a good match solely based on a disability label. Individuals with ASD have many diverse strengths, talents, and skills that would benefit employers.
People with autism cannot for intimate relationships
Although social interaction is impaired in people with ASD, this does not mean they cannot form relationships with others. Individuals with ASD can and do have fulfilling relationships with family, friends, spouses, and children. In contrast to the previously dominant idea that they prefer social isolation, recent studies have demonstrated that most people with ASD want to form relationships with others (Brownlow, Rosqvist, & O’Dell, 2015).
What is a preference assessment?
Assessing the students’ likes and dislikes in terms of activities.
Name a U.S. President who is said to have had Autism?
Abraham Lincoln
How many severity levels are under the Autism Spectrum Disorder?
3
Is Asperger Syndrome currently part of the Autism Spectrum Disorder?
No, the DSM-5 removed Asperger Syndrome from the Autism Spectrum.
What is a massed trials strategy?
The same instructional trial is repeated again and again to a predefined criterion of correct performance.
Which edition of the DSM did this presentation use as a source of information regarding the characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorders?
(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders= DSM)
5th Edition, DSM-5
Who is the man with a Net Worth of $76 Billion that is said to have autism?
Bill Gates
What are the two domains under the Autism Spectrum Disorder?
-Social and Communication domain -Fixated interests and repetitive behavior or activity domain
Is Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) a term used in the current DSM?
No, the term PDD-NOS was described in the 4th edition. The 5th edition is the current DSM.
Life with someone on the spectrum has minamal effects on the family?
What is false?
Living with a person with an ASD affects the entire family—parents, siblings, and in some families, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Meeting the complex needs of a person with an ASD can put families under a great deal of stress—emotional, financial, and sometimes even physical. Respite care can give parents and other family caregivers a needed break and help maintain family well-being.
Autism spectrum disorder is degenative.
Basically at some point in adulthood there is no room for improvement.
What is false?
Who is the man that is said to have had autism that came up with the equation E=MC^2?
Albert Einstein
What does it mean to be in the spectrum?
Autism affects boys more than girls.
What is false?
Autism spectrum disorder affects all nationalities, all creeds, all religions, all races and both sexes. It doesn’t differentiate or affect only one group or another.
People with autism or on the spectrum can get injured more easily.
What is true?
It is important for parents and other family members to teach their loved one how to stay safe and what to do if they feel threatened or have been hurt in any way. It can sometimes be helpful to give a person with a disability a bracelet or other item that has his or her name, address, phone number, and disability on it in case he or she gets lost.
Be sensitive to what they want and need, not just how you think they should improve or behave.
What is true?
Who was the man responsible for the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that had autism?
Adam Lanza
How does Social Communication Disorder relate to the Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Individuals with significant social skills deficits. (Children with PDD-NOS on the basis of social communication deficits). It is NOT included in Autism Spectrum Disorder section because it defines a group of individuals with related, but separate symptoms
Parents do not and cannot cause autism spectrum disorder.
What is true?
Although the multiple causes of ASD are not known, it is known that parental behavior before, during and after pregnancy does not cause ASD.
People with ASD can feel empathy.
What is true?
Children and adults with autism spectrum disorder often care deeply but lack the ability to spontaneously develop empathic and socially connected typical behavior. Individuals with ASD often want to socially interact but lack the ability to spontaneously develop effective social interaction skills.
People on the spectrum are more likely to have other learning or physical problems.
What is true?
One third of autistic people also have a learning disability. They are more likely to have allergies, asthma, epilepsy, digestive disorders, feeding disorders, sleeping disorders, sensory integration dysfunction, cognitive impairments and other medical disorders.
Mark Zuckerberg, who has autism (Asperger's), developed which popular social network?