PSY 4105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Autism

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

Document Summary

From pdd to asd: dsm iv tr: pervasive developmental disorder, autistic disorder, asperger"s disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, nos, childhoods disintegrative disorder, rett"s disorder, dsm-5, autism spectrum disorder (asd) entails all of the above conditions. Dsm-5 autism spectrum disorder: needs to be deficits in social communication across different areas, social emotional reciprocity, abnormal social approach, less interest in sharing affect, deficits in non-verbal communication, poor eye contact, developing and maintaining and understanding relationships. We need to have all of these deficits. We also need to have 2 of the following: Severity: level 1: requiring support, social communication problems, inflexibility, level 2: requiring substantial support, marked deficits in verbal and non-verbal social communication, inflexibility noted by casual observer, level 3: requiring very substantial support, severe deficits causing severe impairments. The other 10%: their new diagnosis would be social communication disorder. Looking at something: lack of imitative play, loss of skills at any age.