Autism
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 for, and across social classes. The key symptoms are that social and communication development are clearly abnormal in the first few years of life, and the child’s play is characterized by a lack of the usual flexibility, imagination, and pretense. (p. 60)
What he means is that autism is detected when children are infants, and the way that they socialize and communicate is different from the way a child who doesn’t have autism socialize and communicate. To get a better understanding of what autism really is Shawn Bean (2010) listed some key symptoms to look for in diagnosis and they follow:
Imagine a highway, long and straight, that disappears into a horizon beset with storm clouds. The highway’s earliest exit leads to something relatively mild, like sensory integration disorder (a child being overly sensitive to the texture of his clothes, or to the sound of the dishwasher). Continue down the highway toward the storm, and the exits lead to more serious issues like Asperger’s syndrome, where children have trouble with social interaction (ignoring everyone at a Mommy and Me class) and show intense fixations on repetitive patterns or behaviors (staring at a spinning wheel or running laps around the coffee table). And lastly, the farthest exit underneath those dark clouds lead to a severe case of autism, such as a child who acts deaf and mute but physically has the capability to hear and speak. (Shawn Bean 2010)
That was a unique way that Shawn Bean put that in context. By
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 for, and across social classes. The key symptoms are that social and communication development are clearly abnormal in the first few years of life, and the child’s play is characterized by a lack of the usual flexibility, imagination, and pretense. (p. 60)
What he means is that autism is detected when children are infants, and the way that they socialize and communicate is different from the way a child who doesn’t have autism socialize and communicate. To get a better understanding of what autism really is Shawn Bean (2010) listed some key symptoms to look for in diagnosis and they follow:
Imagine a highway, long and straight, that disappears into a horizon beset with storm clouds. The highway’s earliest exit leads to something relatively mild, like sensory integration disorder (a child being overly sensitive to the texture of his clothes, or to the sound of the dishwasher). Continue down the highway toward the storm, and the exits lead to more serious issues like Asperger’s syndrome, where children have trouble with social interaction (ignoring everyone at a Mommy and Me class) and show intense fixations on repetitive patterns or behaviors (staring at a spinning wheel or running laps around the coffee table). And lastly, the farthest exit underneath those dark clouds lead to a severe case of autism, such as a child who acts deaf and mute but physically has the capability to hear and speak. (Shawn Bean 2010)
That was a unique way that Shawn Bean put that in context. By