PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nonverbal Communication, Developmental Disability, Echolalia
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Auto comes from the greek for self emphasizing the external aloneness and detachment. Results in varying degrees in many areas including language, interpersonal and social skills, emotions, behaviours, and even intellectual functioning. Will be able to watch movies and read stories, they will remember a series of events, but won"t understand the narrative won"t understand what it is about. Might have to close eyes to listen to you talk to avoid sensory overload. A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3, that adversely affects a child"s performance. Other characteristics often associated with autism are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. The term does not apply if a child"s educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the child has a serious emotional disturbance. Idea, 1992: disability that starts/appears when the child is young.
