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Evidence Based Practices are still evolving as we learn new strategies, receive effective trainings and advances in research. Since the entrance of ABA, EBP has been overrepresented.

EBP is critical to the future of the ASD community. Educators need to be competent and deliver scientifically based intruction to their students.

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Some areas to watch for are a delay in communication abilities, delay in self care skills, challenges with aspects of play, learning, behavior and emotion management. Lack of eye contact, being able to imitate or participate in nonverbal communication like pointing. Another area would be repetitive movements such as hand flapping, spinning or jumping.

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Level 3 - "Requiring very substantial support"
severe deficits in verbal and nonverbal social communication, severe impairments in functioning. Extreme difficulty coping with change, inflexibility of behavior with great distress/difficulty changing focus or action.

Level 2 - " Requiring substantial support"
marked deficits in verbal and nonverbal social communication, social impairments. Inflexibility of behavior, difficulty coping with change, repetitive behaviors are frequent and obvious.

Level 1 - "Requiring Support"
deficits in social communication, decreased interests in social interactions, noticeable impairments. Difficulty switching between activities. Inflexibility of behavior.

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1. Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts
2. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities
3. symptoms must be present in the early developmental period
4. symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, and other areas of current functioning
5. Not better explained by intellectual disability or global developmental delay.

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The biggest change in the DSM IV vs the current DSM V is the change in the term pervasive developmental disorder to autism spectrum disorder. DSM V also combines the social and communication dimensions into one category and includes a category for children who may have social communication deficits but do not have any repetitive behaviors or interests.

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Julianna, Karen, and Logan are three 8 year olds diagnosed with autism. Autism looks different for all three of these children but it is the same diagnosis. Julianna is non-verbal and in a special day class. Her teachers say she is very smart and likes to be in control. Karen is verbal and can converse with others, has a lot of skills and enjoys interaction. Logan is in a mainstream class with a aid and is also verbal and can communicate his feelings.

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Leo Kanner was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician and social activist. He was famous because he was the first person to clearly define autism.

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Lorna Wing introduced the term Aspergers Syndrome in 1976 and was involved in founding the National Autistic society in the UK.

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Andrew Wakefield was a British Anti-vaccine activist. He falsely claimed a link between common vaccines like the measles as a cause to autism.

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- Impaired Theory of Mind
- Weak Central Coherence
- Impaired Executive Function

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Historical Information on Aspergers Syndrome

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Historical Information on Aspergers Syndrome

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Aspergers syndrome was first introduced in 1976 by Lorna Wing. Aspergers remained in the DSM for about 2 decades. It has since been replaced with ASD level 1 in the DSM-V

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Bill Gates is the co founder of Microsoft and has autism

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Anthony Hopkins is a famous Actor with Autism. Some movies he has starred in include Hannibal, Red Dragon, Mask of Zorro, and many more!