PSY 4105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Facilitated Communication, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
12 Nov 2017
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Chapter 17- autism: autism spectrum disorders are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by neurologically based deficits in social communication and social interaction. Children with autism may also have dysfunctions in the basic understanding and expression of emotion, delayed and deviant language patterns, idiosyncratic intonation and uncoordinated language. Some children with autism repeat words often (echolalia: other typical behaviours for children with autism include repetitive and ritualistic behaviours, repetitive organizing and becoming upset even when a minor aspect of their environment is changed. They may fixate their attention on an object for an extended period of time. This may be why some people with autism are very talented in very specific skills, called savant skills: the decision by the dsm-5 commission to eliminate asperger"s disorder as a separate disorder generated considerable controversy. Many individuals who would have been diagnosed as having. Asperger"s disorder are now identified by specifiers as having autism without intellectual disability.
