PSY 4105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Joint Attention, Etiology, Teratology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4105
• Professor: Maria Rogers

Document Summary

The dsm-5 evolved the dsm-iv-tr"s rendition of pervasive developmental disorder to autism spectrum disorder. Autistic disorder, asperger"s disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder and rett"s disorder were all grouped into the dsm-5 as autism. 2: highly restricted, xed interests that are abnormally in intensity or focus such as a strong. Insistence on sameness, in exible routines, or ritualized behaviours. attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects or excessively circumscribed interest: hyper focused on sensory inputs, registering as unusual. Intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder frequently co-occur to make comorbid diagnoses. The dsm5 created a more restricted diagnosis for autism, which left 10% of the individuals previously diagnosed with autism left out of the the diagnosis. These 10% of individuals did not meet the restricted/repetitive behaviour requirement giving them the diagnosis of social pragmatic communication disorder. Primary dif culty in pragmatics, the social use of language and communication.