Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Transition from School to Post-School Life Your Name School’s Name Author Note Your Name‚ Department of XXXXXX‚ School’s name This paper was submitted in partial fulfillment of Class name XXX. Correspondence concerning this research paper should be addressed to Your Name‚ Department of XXXXXX‚ School ’s Name‚ City‚ State‚ Zip Code‚ Email: XXXXXXXXX Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Transition from School to Post-School Life The development that one experience during
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders‚ characterized by social impairments‚ communication difficulties‚ and restricted‚ repetitive‚ and stereotyped patterns of behavior. Autistic disorder‚ sometimes called autism or classical ASD‚ is the most severe form of ASD‚ while other conditions along the spectrum include a milder form known as Asperger syndrome‚ and childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (usually
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something’s not right. A neurological disorder called Autism has these characteristics‚ including difficulty in communication and social interactions. In the past few years‚ it seems that Autism has begun to increase‚ however this is not the case. A few years ago I worked with Autistic children‚ and an increase in knowledge about the disorder has greatly helped with treatment to ensure they live relatively normal lives. By noticing the signs of Autism‚ you could also help to catch it early in your little
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Autism Autism or PPD (pervasive developmental disorder) is defined by the Columbia encyclopedia as a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the inability to relate to and perceive the environment in a realistic manner. The onset of the disorder is in infancy or early childhood‚ generally before the age of thirty months‚ and males are affected four times as often as females. Symptoms include impairment in social interaction‚ fixation on inanimate objects‚ inability to communicate normally
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Running head: Autism What is autism? This is a very good question‚ and my guess would be that it is a disorder that affects a person in the way that they communicate‚ socialize‚ and interact with others. The real definition according to Baron-Cohen (1995) follows: That autism is considered the most severe of all the childhood psychiatric conditions. Fortunately‚ it occurs only rarely‚ affecting between 4 and 15 children per 10‚000. It occurs in every country in which it has been looked
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0022-006X/05/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.73.3.525 Individual Behavioral Profiles and Predictors of Treatment Effectiveness for Children With Autism Michelle R. Sherer and Laura Schreibman University of California‚ San Diego Differential responsiveness to intervention programs suggests the inadequacy of a single treatment approach for all children with autism. One method for reducing outcome variability is to identify participant characteristics associated with different outcomes for a specific intervention
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Autism spectrum disorders are caused by abnormalities in the brain that affect the neurodevelopment system and no single cause has been found (Grandin p.30). Some early indicators of autism are Lack of eye contact‚ lack of attention to the same item or topic another person is focusing on when interacting with that person‚ lack of reciprocal conversation‚ and atypical sensory/motor processing. Students who are diagnosed with autism have deficits in five areas: communication‚ socialization and social
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diagnosed with mild autism. His classroom was really small and tight spaced. It had a round table where each student sat. There are five students in that class. There were shelves which were well organized with different materials needed for the students. It had a sink far out from the working area‚ where they could wash up after themselves. There was a computer in the classroom which the instructor said she sometimes uses for lessons‚ music and looking at pictures. Autism is a complex developmental
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Stephanie Conley 10/23/13 Biology Correlation between Autism and Control groups Introduction Autism also known as Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of disorders of brain development. These disorders are described such as difficulties in social interaction‚ verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. People with Autism can have problems with intellectual disability‚ difficulties in motor coordination and attention and physical health issues such as sleep and gastrointestinal
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paper appeared in Autism‚ 1998‚ 2‚ 296-301. Autism occurs more often in families of physicists‚ engineers‚ and mathematicians. Simon Baron-Cohen ‚ Patrick Bolton‚ Sally Wheelwright‚ Victoria Scahill Liz Short‚ Genevieve Mead‚ and Alex Smith Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry‚ University of Cambridge‚ Downing St‚ Cambridge‚ CB2 3EB‚ UK. To whom correspondence should be addressed. 1 Abstract The study reported here tests a prediction that autism should occur more
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