MUSIC 2MT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Asperger Syndrome
25 Dec 2019
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Symptoms: deficits in communication & social skills, may display behaviours, typically by age 3, diagnosis includes: impairment of reciprocal social interaction, verbal communication, & restricted repertoire of interests (may include stereotypical / repetitive movements) When to the doctor to help their child and they didn"t help, instead they got bruno bettelheim: speaks about autism as psychotic feelings, you must feel that someone really cares for them, put himself forward to care his children with autism, wrote a book in which he said that the experience he felt in internment camp was how autistic children feel, he said that mother were responsible for making their children autistic. Behavioural issues & music therapy: pecs (picture exchange communication system) collaborate with slp, music is flexible, expressive and receptive language (nicco, call & response repetitive lyrics, motivation / prompt interaction successful tool for meaningful interactions.
