PS379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neurodevelopmental Disorder, Eye Contact, Discrete Trial Training
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Lecture 5 jan 22nd, 2018 & jan 24th, 2018. Pervasive developmental disorder: social interactions, restrictive and repeated behaviors, language, behavior. Dms iv vs. dsmv: 3 areas 2 areas. 27. 4 to 70% per 10 000 children. Increase in diagnosis: reasons why: increase in awareness of disorder treatment and assessment tools, now that there is a label for it, everything is being put in that category, could be over diagnosed. Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction. Symptoms must be present in the early developmental period. Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational or other. These disturbances are not better explained by intellectual disability or global developmental delay. Repetitive, ritualistic and unusual behaviors: (cid:862)sti(cid:373)(cid:373)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) Unusual responsiveness to sensory stimuli: over responsive and under responsive. Impaired social interaction: people as objects, eg. ca(cid:374)"t rea(cid:272)h so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g, (cid:449)ill take you to help the(cid:373) Repetitive, stereotyped behaviors: hand flapping, rocking, maintain sameness in environment.
