PSYCH 2AP3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Etiology, Epigenetics, Field Dependence
7 Jan 2016
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Deficient social interaction/communication: deficits in social-emotional reciprocity: Failure to initiate or respond to social interaction: deficits in nonverbal communication. Lack of facial expression: deficits in developing, maintaining relationships. Difficulty adjusting behaviour to social context (e. g. sheldon cooper difficulty interpreting verbal behaviour like sarcasm) Difficulty sharing imaginative play (pretend play), making friends. Total absence of interest in peers instead you get self-absorbed, autistic play. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour: stereotyped, repetitive movements/speech: lining up toys, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases o o, hypo/hyper-reactivity to sensory input. Adverse response to specific sounds, textures etc. Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, other important areas of functioning . Symptoms not better explained by intellectual disability or global developmental delay. Specifications: with or without intellectual impairment, with or without language impairment, associated medical, genetic, environmental condition, associated with another mental, behavioural disorder (comorbidity) o. Ranges from no language, slow development, idiosyncratic language, full development. Cdc (2007): 67/10000 just among u. s. 8 year olds.
