CDS 482LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Hans Asperger
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Social communication: the synergistic emergence of social interaction, social cognition, pragmatics (verbal and nonverbal), and receptive and expressive language processing (adams, Observation of social communication: the nature of these children is revealed most clearly in their behavior towards other people. Indeed, theirbehavior in the social group is the clearest sign of their disorder and the source of conflicts from earliest childhood. -hans asperger. Social communication disorders: may include problems with social interaction, social cognition and pragmatics, may be a distinct diagnosis or may occur within the context of other conditions: Social language program for children and adults with asperger"s and autism: evaluation, background history, self, parent and teacher rating scales and questionnaires, social emotional skills rating scale (gajewski et al. , 1998, role play discussion form. Completion of informal evaluation and standardized testing: language skills, critical thinking, problem solving, higher level language skills, humor, language sample, articulation, voice, fluency, oral mechanism exam, and hearing.