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Autism comes from the Greek for "self" and English for "ism" -
ANSWERS✔✔"Concentration on themselves"
Autism encompasses a continuum of ___________ disorders -
ANSWERS✔✔neurodevelopment
Autism is characterized by difficulty in 3 areas - ANSWERS✔✔1. social
interaction
2. nonverbal and verbal communication
3. Stereotypical and repetitive behaviors
Bleuler - ANSWERS✔✔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He used the term to describe a schizophrenic patient who was withdrawn into his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According to Bleuler, Austin meant morbid self admiration and withdrawn within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 - ANSWERS✔✔A psychologist who was also a parent of a child with
autism disagreed with Kanner and Bettelheim.
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 - ANSWERS✔✔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 - ANSWERS✔✔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.
His work was translated to English in the 1980s and was brought to light.
Bettleheim - ANSWERS✔✔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 - ANSWERS✔✔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 -
ANSWERS✔✔Federal Government 1975
PL 101-476 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, FAPE, IEP
Renamed IDEA, 1st person language - ANSWERS✔✔1990
A new category specific to autism - ANSWERS✔✔1991
Dr. Andrew Wakefield - ANSWERS✔✔Published a study in Lancet linking
thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury, in the MMR vaccine to autism.
The study only included 12 subjects.
The British Medicine Journal determined that the research is clearly fraudulent, but
it caused an uproar.
Controversial vaccine ingredients suspected of causing autism -
ANSWERS✔✔mercury
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