Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger - Answer-first scientists to identify ASD. First was in America with his paper second was in Austria
Kanner's early descriptions of ASD - Answer--profound lack of affective contact with others
-intense resistance to change in routines
-fascination with manipulati...
ASD 1-3 Exam Questions and Answers
Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger - Answer-first scientists to identify ASD. First was in
America with his paper second was in Austria
Kanner's early descriptions of ASD - Answer--profound lack of affective contact with
others
-intense resistance to change in routines
-fascination with manipulating objects
-muteness or abnormalities of language
-superior rote memory
Asperger's early descriptions - Answer--impairment of social interaction
-all-absorbing interests
-imposition of repetitive routines on self and other
-inappropriate use of speech
- monologues on special interests
psychoanalysis view on autism - Answer-concluded that autism was a form of neurosis
caused by disturbed mother-child relationships. The stigmatizing and unjustifiable term
'refrigerator mother' indicates the supposed origins of the impaired relationship.
Disapproval of psychoanalysis theory concerning autism - Answer-By the 1970s, this
theory had been disproved by studies showing that people with autism have significant
abnormalities of brain structure and function
early Psychiatric view of autism - Answer-conceived of autism as a psychotic condition
with a physical, brain-related cause. It was mistakenly thought that the odd behaviors of
young children with autism were early manifestations of schizophrenia, and they were
accordingly diagnosed as cases of childhood schizophrenia, or childhood psychosis.
Early diagnostic tool developed in psychiatric mindset for "childhood schizophrenia" -
Answer-Creak's nine points
1.Gross and sustained impairment of emotional relationships.
2. Serious retardation, with islets of normal or exceptional intellectual function.
3. Apparent unawareness of personal identity.
4. Pathological preoccupation with particular objects.
Sustained resistance to change.
5. Abnormal response to perceptual stimuli.
6. Acute and illogical anxiety.
7. Speech absent or underdeveloped.
8. Distorted motility [movement] patterns.
Disproval of childhood schizophrenia theory - Answer-the suggestion that children with
autism were suffering from childhood schizophrenia was disproved by a study of a large
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