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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Patent/family investigation | to address health care barriers |
| neuronal underconnectivity | 1. the brain cells of individuals with autism exhibit deficient connectivity. 2. disrupts the cells' ability to communicate with each other |
| Frontal lobes | which are largely responsible for executive functioning |
| Occipital Lobes | the occipital lobes, which are largely responsible for visual perceptual processing |
| psychoanalytic | Theories/techniques. One psychiatrist in particular was extremely influential in promoting the idea that meats, especially mothers, were the cause of their children's autism. |
| Schizophrenia | children with schizophrenia tended to withdraw from the world, whereas the children with autism never seemed to have made any social connections to begin with |
| Echolalia | the repetition of words or phrases |
| autism spectrum disorders (ASD) | The term spectrum emphasizes that the disabilities associated with ASD fall on a continuum from relatively mild to severe. The "gold standard" for diagnosing autism. |
| Autism spectrum disorders (ASD | involves myriad aberrant perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, and social behaviors. |
| Pragmatics | The social uses of language |
| The Hidden Curriculum | The hidden curriculum refers to the "dos and don'ts" of everyday living that most people learn incidentally or with very little instruction from others: behaviors or ways of acting that most of us take for granted. |
| Joint attention | Occurs when two individuals attend to an object with the purpose of sharing an interaction with each other |
| autistic regression | occurs in 1 out of 3 cases. Regress in behavior |
| communicative intent | or the desire to communicate for social purposes. |
| mute | they use no, or almost no, language |
| Camouflaging | Occurs when a person who has atypical behaviors attempts to conform to behaviors exhibited by the larger society. |
| Stereotyped motor or verbal behaviors | Repetitive, ritualistic motor behaviors such as twirling, spinning objects, flapping hands, and rocking. |
| Autism savant syndrome | Extremely rare classification where some individuals with autism are seen as geniuses and having extraordinary skills |
| Synaesthesia | Occurs when the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive system results in the stimulation of another sensory or cognitive system. |
| executive functioning (EF). | EF is usually even more impaired in people wit autism spectrum disorders. Their ability to plan ahead in a thoughtful way is sabotaged b, their problems with working memory (WM), inhibitory control or behavioral inhibition and mental flexibility |
| central coherence | (Frith, 2003), the natural inclination for most people to bring order and meaning to information in their environment by perceiving it as a meaningful whole rather than as disparate parts. |
| Theory of Mind (ToM) | refers to a person's ability to take the perspective of other people. It's the ability to "read" the mind of other People with respect to characteristics such as their intentions feelings, and beliefs. |
| Applied behavior analysis (ABA) | is a highly structured approach that focuses on teaching functional skills and assessment of progress. |
| functional behavioral assessment (FBA) and positive behavioral intervention and support | Can help reduce or eliminate these behaviors. It includes determining the consequences, antecedents, and setting events that maintain such behaviors. |
| Pivotal-response-treatment (PRT) | Pivotal-response-treatment is based on the assumption that some skills are critical, or pivotal, for function in other areas. |
| early intensive behavioral intervention (ElBI) program. | Anchored in the applied behavior analysis (ABA) tradition, EIBI requires considerable time commitments from therapists and parents in implementing very structured training on discrete skills, starting when children are about 2 to 3 years old. |
| person-centered planning | whereby the person with the disability is encouraged to make her own decisions as much as possible. |
| small community residential facilities | More and more people with autism are being integrated into the community through these. |
| competitive employment or supported competitive employment. | and in supported living settings, such as their own homes or apartments. The goal for work settings is for people with autism to be in these. |
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