Autism Exam Questions And Answers
Autism comes from the Greek for "self" and English for "ism" "Concentration on
themselves"
Autism encompasses a continuum of ___________ disorders neurodevelopment
Autism is characterized by difficulty in 3 areas 1. social interaction
2. nonverbal and verbal ...
Autism comes from the Greek for "self" and English for "ism" "Concentration on
themselves"
Autism encompasses a continuum of ___________ disorders neurodevelopment
Autism is characterized by difficulty in 3 areas 1. social interaction
2. nonverbal and verbal communication
3. Stereotypical and repetitive behaviors
Bleuler 1st to use term autism in 1908.
He used the term to describe a schizophrenic patient who was withdrawn into his own world.
According to Bleuler, Austin meant morbid self admiration and withdrawn within self.
Rimland A psychologist who was also a parent of a child with autism disagreed with
Kanner and Bettelheim.
, Autism Exam Questions And Answers
Autism:The Syndrome and its Implications for a Neural Theory Behavior in 1964.
His book revolutionized the field of autism by providing the autistic community with guidance
on how to understand and treat these individuals.
Kanner Child psychiatrist
He studied 11 children in 1943 who all had features of difficulties in social interactions, routine
changes, good memory, sensitivity to stimuli (especially sound), good intellectual potential,
tendency to repeat words, difficulties in impulsive activities.
He also published a paper called "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact"
Asperger Described a milder form of autism in1944, which is what we now know as
Aspergers.
He reported cases of all highly intelligible boys that had problems with social interaction and
specific obsessive interests.
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His work was translated to English in the 1980s and was brought to light.
Bettleheim Studied the effect of 3 therapy sessions of children he called autistic.
He claimed that the problem with the children was the fact that they had "cold mothers" or
"refrigerator mothers"
Bettelheim and Kanner worked together to hypothesize that cold mother was the cause of autism.
Wing Conducted landmark studies of autism that changed our conceptions of the
condition.
Her early work led to the triad of impairments that came to define autism.
In 1980 she introduced the concept of spectrum.
PL 94-142 Education of the Handicapped Act, Least restrictive environment Federal
Government 1975
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