Autism Basics
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- Created on: 19-04-15 11:51
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- Autism
- Joint attention
- Around the age of 9-15 months, most infants engage in behaviour that results in shared interaction between them and another person
- The child's gaze will shift from an interesting event or object to another person in such a way that their own and another person's attention becomes focused on the same object
- This is usually achieved by gazing or pointing & is known as joint attention
- The child is interested in the car-giver's attitude and feelings towards the object as both the infant and car-giver pay attention to the same object.
- demonstrates the intention to socially interact with another person
- Joint attention in absent with those who have autism
- Around the age of 9-15 months, most infants engage in behaviour that results in shared interaction between them and another person
- Triad of impairments
- The DSM-IV requires delays or abnormal functioning in at least one of these areas for a diagnosis of autism to be given
- Social Interaction
- Language used in social communication
- Symbolic or imaginative play
- Led researchers to look closely at whether the 3 domains occur by chance or form the triad of impairments
- That always occur together and therefore constitute a syndrome
- Evaluation
- Although too vague to be used reliably as a diagnostic tool -the 3 features appear in diagnostic mannuals
- further research into autism being a syndrome is ongoing
- Doesn't tell us anything about other recognised symptoms that some autistic individuals display.
- EG: Islets of ability
- Although too vague to be used reliably as a diagnostic tool -the 3 features appear in diagnostic mannuals
- The DSM-IV requires delays or abnormal functioning in at least one of these areas for a diagnosis of autism to be given
- Joint attention
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