SPTH2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Neurodevelopmental Disorder
26 Oct 2018
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A neurodevelopmental disorder that affects a person"s social communication skills and represents with patterns of repetitive behaviours and restricted listeners. People with asd may have differences in their processing of sensory information. Although it co-exists with asd, a child who is diagnosed with sensory processing disorder doesn"t always indicate they have autism as well; could be two different diagnosis. Honest (if too honest, can be offensive and not socially appropriate) Not orientating to sounds or voices (might not respond when someone calls them) Lack of social smile, doesn"t return your smile (before 12 months) Failure to direct adults attention to own activity. Does not show affection (but with some, can be very affection - that is inappropriate) Reduced response to own name, family names and names of familiar objects. Reduced attempts made at speech, i. e. "dada" or "mama" Lac of imitation of others, i. e. clapping; actions and sound; imitation of another toddles. Not using two word sentences by age 2.
