Externalized behaviors - Answer ✔ -poor social relationships
-difficulty coping with behavioral demands
-inappropriately express needs and wants
Bruno Bettelheim - Answer ✔ -popularizes theories about causes of autism
-children with autism developed because they had bad mothers (called refrigerator
mothers)
Bernard Rimland - Answer ✔ refutes popular ideas and leads to advocacy movement
characteristics for identification - Answer ✔ uneven skill development
diagnosing autism - Answer ✔ -persistent deficits in social communication and social
interaction
-restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities
symptoms must be present in early childhood
symptoms together limit and impair everyday functioning
ASD: communication/socialization - Answer ✔ -language skills vary from none to
sophisticated
-difficulty with back and forth communication
-echolalia
-difficulty understanding non-literal language
-impaired nonverbal communication
, characteristics of ASD - Answer ✔ -narrow range of interests; high interests in few
topics
-greater interest in objects than people
-difficulty adjusting behavior for social contexts
-perseveration
---stuck on one thing, repetition of one thing
-insistence on sameness
---environment needs to be maintained as is
-repetitive motor movements
---ex) hand flapping
-unusual responses to sensory stimuli
Asperger syndrome - Answer ✔ -identified in childhood because differences are not as
pronounced
-normal or above intelligence
-talk at rather than with others
-difficulty with social interactions
social narratives - Answer ✔ -Scenarios that are made up that create a story to help a
person with autism acclimate to different scenarios
-Descriptive: present information; accurate; objective
---Facts, states very plainly
-Perspective: opinions, feelings, ideas
---To learn about how someone else might feel
-Directive: offers response(s) for situations; positively stated; allow for flexibility
---Gives ways people can respond
Hipocrates - Answer ✔ recognized that it was a physical problem, not the judgment of
the gods
Plato - Answer ✔ -espoused the idea of selective breeding
-anyone recognized to have a disability should not reproduce
15th century view on PWD - Answer ✔ PWD became entertainment
the hammer of the witches - Answer ✔ seizures were indicative of satanic influence
Elizabethan poor laws - Answer ✔ -PWD were referred to as the impotent poor
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