PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Autism Spectrum, Big Bang, Neurodevelopmental Disorder
4 Apr 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Psych 2ap3: neurodevelopmental disorders: autism spectrum disorder (asd) Dsm-5 diagnostic critera: these 2 are always there, 1. Imaginative no real or concreate things have hard time going there, things must be concrete: 2. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour: stereotyped, repetitive movements, speech, etc, lining up toys, echolalia repeating things that you say, waving hands repetitively. Idiosyncratic phrases phrases repeated over and over again. Prevalence: autism spectrum disorders: national epidemiological database for the study of autism. Se ontario prevelence of austism spectrum disorders: crazy huge increases. Se ontario prevelence of austism spectrum disorders: 4. 5 more males than females receive this diagnostic label. Increased prevalence: between 1966 -1993: 5/10,000, between 1994 2004: 13/10,000, california 1987 1998: 270% increase. In some kids with savant abilities there can be another family member with the same thing. Criticisms of tom in autism: social impairment before precursors of tom, social impairment before precursors of tom - see deficits in social behavior well before it develops in.
