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| What medical test exist to determine autism? |
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| There is no single test to determine autism. |
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| Where does Autism diagnosis come from? |
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| What exists to determine social/communication disorders? |
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| There are checklist to look for social/communication disorders. |
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| When can testing for autism begin? |
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| Testing can begin as early as 1 month. |
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| What should occur if a person fails a second test? |
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| Failure of second testing should cause referrel |
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| What is secretin therapy? |
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| when amino acids are introduced into the system to increase abilities. |
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| Is secretin therapy effective? |
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| This process has been questioned and there is no significant proof it works. |
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| What is frequency/hertz communication? |
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| When the frequency or hertz of sound is added to see if it helps communication. |
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| What are autistic students like to teach? |
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| They are the most difficult to teach. |
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| What is needed for autistic students to have educational success? |
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| Early intensive intervention |
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| What is applied behavioral analysis? |
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| The effect of the environment on learning. |
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| Verbatim repetitions of what people have said and noncontextual speech phrases w/o any apparant communication purposes. |
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| positive reinforcement, planning systematic methods |
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| How long does echolalia take to happen? |
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| It can be immediate or delayed. |
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| a pattern of persistent and repetitive behaviors such as rocking, humming, twirling, flapping hands an wrist, etc. |
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| Leo Kannar, a psychiatrist from John Hopkins. |
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| A neurobehavioral syndrome marked by qualative impairments of social interaction and communication & by restricted, repetitive, sterotypical patterns of behavior. |
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| When was Autism first publized? |
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| Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders - fourth edition |
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| How are the types of autism differentiated? |
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| By the age of onset and the severity of symptoms. |
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| What is IDEA's definition of Autism? |
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| A developmental disability that affects verbal and non-verbal communication and social interaction generally with onset prior to 3 years old, which adversely affects the child's performance. |
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| Compare the academic and social characteristics of mental retarded students and autistic students. |
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| The academics are very similar, but the social characteristics are different. |
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| How often does Autism occur? |
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| Of boys and girls who is affect more and by how much? |
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| boys are affected four times more likely |
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| What is the fasted growing category of SPED. |
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| What is discrete trial training? |
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| One on one sessions, direct instruction. |
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| What percent of autistic children are in resource rooms? |
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| What percent of autistic children are in sped |
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| what percent are in regular education classrooms? |
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| What percent are in residential facilities? |
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| What are the type types of response to sensory stimuli that autistic children have? |
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| Hyper-responsive (over) and Hypo-responsive (under) |
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| They dislike sounds, feelings, tastes, sights. They over respond to different things. |
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| They do not feel things like normal. they do not feel burning or hurt. They will often rub things into their skin hard. |
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| Can an autistic child display both hypo-responsive and hyper-responsive traits? |
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| yes, it is common to see both traits |
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| Can an autistic child display both hypo-responsive and hyper-responsive traits? |
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| yes, it is common to see both traits |
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| Describe autistic studends insistence to sameness. |
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| 1. entire life is dedicated to routine, 2. they do not like change, 3. they may throw temper tantrums if change occurs, 4. they ask the same questions over and over again regardless of reply. |
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| What are the range of IQ levels for autistic children? |
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| Their IQ's can range from severe profound mentally retarded to gifted. |
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| what percent are mentally retarded? |
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| What percent have splinter skills? |
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| 10 to 15% have splinter skills |
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| What is early diagnosis correlated with? |
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| early diagnosis is highly correlated with better outcomes |
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| How early can autism be reliably diagnosed? |
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| It can be reliably diagnosed as early as 18 months. |
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| What can be used to diagnose autism? |
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| Checklist for autism in toddlers (chat) and the modified checklist for autism and toddler (M-Chat) |
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| Who should do testing for diagnosis? |
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| What should accompany testing? |
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| Observation should always accompany testing. |
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| What are the four rating scales? |
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| Childhood Autism Rating Scale (cars), Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (gars), Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI), Aspergers Syndrom Diagnostic Scale (ASDS) |
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| What are the four rating scales? |
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| Childhood Autism Rating Scale (cars), Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (gars), Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI), Aspergers Syndrom Diagnostic Scale (ASDS) |
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| What are two strategies that entail visual support? |
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| Social strategies and picture activities. |
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| What do picture activities do for students? |
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| They help them develop independence in selecting and carrying out a sequence of activities. |
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| They explain social situations and concepts. |
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| They explain social situations and concepts. |
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| What are some educational approaches that can be used with autistic children? |
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| Buddy systems, generalization, peer mediation, intervention. |
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| What should you work on in Buddy system instruction? |
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| 1. learn to ask for things, 2. how to get attention of peers, 3. taking turns, 4. awaiting a turn, 5. looking a the person speaking 6. learning to say "hello" and "goodbye" |
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| what is a refridgerator mom? |
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| A mother who did not cuddle or hold her child. |
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