Autism Exam Questions and Answers
Autism comes from the Greek for "self" and English for "ism" - Answer-"Concentration
on themselves"
Autism encompasses a continuum of ___________ disorders - Answer-
neurodevelopment
Autism is characterized by difficulty in 3 areas - Answer-1. social interaction
2. nonverbal and verbal communication
3. Stereotypical and repetitive behaviors
Bleuler - Answer-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He used the term to describe a schizophrenic patient who was withdrawn into his own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According to Bleuler, Austin meant morbid self admiration and withdrawn within self.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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-
Federal Government 1975
PL 101-476 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, FAPE, IEP
Renamed IDEA, 1st person language - Answer-1990
A new category specific to autism - Answer-1991
Dr. Andrew Wakefield - Answer-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.
1 in ____ children are diagnosed with autism - Answer-68
Parents who have one child with autism have a ______ rate of having another child with
autism. - Answer-higher
ASD is reported to occur in all - Answer-racial
ethnic
socioeconomic groups
ASD is almost 5 times more common in _______ than ______ - Answer-Males than
females
1 in 42 vs 1 in 189
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