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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)ASD is a __ disorder. There are 2 categories:
1. __ interaction
2. __ & stereotypic behaviors - answer neurodevelopmental/neurological
social
repetitive
Diagnosis can be made in the __ years - answerpreschool - 3 or 4 years old
One Type of ASD
Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple
settings
-Deficits in social-emotional __ - lack the ability to hold a conversation - hi how are you?
How is your day going? What are you doing?
-Deficits in __ communicative behaviors used for social interaction - decreased eye
contact, lack of use of gestures, inability to read gestures, lack of facial expressions
-Deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding __ - sharing & imaginative play
with another child, making friends, lack of interest in peers - but likes to talk about their
own interests a lot - answerreciprocity
non-verbal
relationships
Second Type of ASD
Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, as manifested by at
least two of the following:
-Stereotyped or repetitive __ movements, use of objects, or speech - lining up toys or
objects, flipping toys, repeating what they just heard over & over again
-Insistence on __, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns of verbal or
nonverbal behavior - even smallest change in routine will set child off, rigid thinking
patterns, need to take the same route places, eat the same food in the same place with
the same utensils
-Highly restricted, fixated __ that are abnormal in intensity or focus
-Hyper or hypo reactivity to __ input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of
environment - indifference to pain or temperature (hypo), can be adverse response to
sounds & textures, can have excessive smelling & touching, visual fixation -
answermotor
, sameness
interests
senbsory
Diagnostic Criteria:
-Symptoms __ be present in the early developmental period, however they may not
become fully apparent until social demands exceed their social abilities
-Symptoms cause clinically significant __ in social, occupational, or other important
areas of current functioning
-These disturbances are not better explained by intellectual disability or global
developmental delay - answermust
impairment
ASD & __ disability often co-occur - social communication would have to be below the
expected level of developmental in order to receive the ASD diagnosis
PDD, AOS, Asperbergs - all fall under ASD now - answerintellectual
Data & Stats:
About 1 in 68 children has ASD
ASD is almost 5 times more common among __ than __
is it genetic? - answerboys, girls
yes - there is a genetic component
-Almost __ of children with ASD have average to above average intellectual ability
-Children born to __ parents are at a higher risk for having ASD
-A small percentage of children who are born prematurely or with low birth weight are at
greater risk for having ASD
-ASD commonly co-occurs with other developmental, psychiatric, neurologic,
chromosomal, and genetic diagnoses - answerhalf
older
Red Flags:
If the child is not doing this by the age of __
lack of response to name - want to make sure the child can hear, rule out a hearing
issue
Lack of pointing
Lack of play with a variety of toys - want to play with the same thing all the time, lining
toys up
Lack of appropriate eye gaze - don't watch other kids play
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