PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter 12: Topic 12 – Autism & Schizophrenia
8 Dec 2015
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Children with autism show few symptoms at 6 months, but many show subtle differences from typically developing infants before 12 months. Likely to be visually responsive, less likely to respond to their names, and more likely to show aversion to being touched by another person. They fail to track people visually, avoid eye contact, exhibit an. Empty gaze, fail to respond to others with emotional expression and positive affect, and show little interest in being held. Abnormal processing of social stimuli, notably of the face. Delayed or atypical social behaviours occur early in at least 5 domains of social behaviour: orienting to social stimuli, joint attention, emotion, imitation, face processing. Nonverbal communication involving gestures, visual gaze, and facial expression of emotion is atypical or deficient. About 30% of children with autism never develop spoken language. Babbling and verbalizations may be abnormal in tone, pitch and. Difficulties in syntax, comprehension, and other structural forms of rhythm language also exist.
