SPED 580 by Zachary Troughton https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks Made with ♥ en-us 2020-09-19 15:36:54 UTC 2025-11-19 14:51:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f601.png Famous Autism Researchers ztroughton https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/762124167 Leo Kanner- child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Lorna Wing- cognitive
psychologist in London
Hans Asperger- Ran a Children's Clinic ]]> 2020-09-20 16:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/762124167 Famous People with ASD ztroughton https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/762145087 1. Dan Aykroyd
2. Susan Boyle
3. Lewis Carroll]]> 2020-09-20 16:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/762145087 Psychological Theories of ASD ztroughton https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/845661626
  • Lacking Theory of Mind- the ability to recognize and understand thoughts, beliefs, desires, and intentions of other people in order to make sense of their behavior and predict what they are going to do next.
  • Weak Central Coherence- Children with autism can be remarkably good at attending to detail but appear to have considerable difficulty perceiving and understanding the overall picture or gist of something.
  • Impaired Executive Function- a child with autism can have problems with executive functioning in the following areas: organizational and planning abilities, working memory, inhibition and impulse control, time management and prioritizing, and using new strategies.  
    • ]]>     2020-10-20 16:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/845661626     Asperger's Syndrome History ztroughton https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/845778609
  • Asperger's Syndrome was discovered by  Hans Asperger in 1944
  • Asperger noticed several common characteristics among a group of children
  • Asperger noted impairments in communication and control of emotion
  • Social maturity and reasoning was impaired
  • A specific interest or topic would dominate their thinking and play
  • In 1994 Asperger's disorder was included in APA's diagnostic manual
    • ]]>     2020-10-20 17:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/845778609     Diagnostic Criteria & Severity Scales ztroughton https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/845925004 Diagnostic Criteria
    1. Persistent deficits social communication and interaction
    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, or other important areas of current functioning
    5. These disturbances are not better explained by intellectual disability
    Severity Scales
    Level 3 "Requiring very substantial support"- severe deficits in verbal and nonverbal social communication skills, inflexibility of behavior. extreme difficulty coping with change.
    Level 2 "Requiring substantial support"- marked deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication skills, inflexibility of behavior, difficulty coping with change
    Level 1 "Requiring Support"- Without supports in place, deficits in social communication cause noticeable impairments, inflexibility of behavior causes significant interference with functioning in one or more contexts
    (autismspeaks.org)]]>     2020-10-20 17:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/845925004     Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-V ztroughton https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/846458265 1. DSM-V reflects a scientific consensus that four previously separate disorders are actually a single condition with different levels of symptom severity
    2. ASD is characterized by 1) deficits in social communication and social interaction and 2) restricted repetitive behaviors, interests, and activities. 
    (American Psychiatric Association)]]>     2020-10-20 19:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ztroughton/Bookmarks/wish/846458265