C_S_D 4020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autism Spectrum, Proxemics, Language Disorder
29 Jul 2016
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Autism spectrum disorders: focus on assessment and treatment: csd 4020, assessment of li in autism. Language characteristics of children with autism and li: some general characteristics related to autism, oversensitive or obliviousness to auditory stimuli or sensory stimuli in general, proxemic problems, unconventional verbal behaviors: echolalia, perseverative speech, incessant questioning. Also, gestalts: gestalt child burns hand when reaching for pizza mom shouts: don"t touch the pizza . Family, occupational therapist, psychologist, doctor, slp, social worker, etc: one possible model of interdisciplinary assessment (prelock, model step 1: understanding the perspectives, values, and hopes and dreams of the family (winton, 1996), model step 2: intake, process. A representative meets with family, completes checklist/questionnaire, interviews family, completes genogram and ecomap: content. 11. child"s use of imitation and echolalia child"s successful and unsuccessful conversation initiation attempts. Assessment: model step 4: community visit or home visit, team members visit the family and the child in the home or in the community.
