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Tero Toivanen

Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Autism/PDD: Yale Child Study Center - 0 views

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  • Childhood Disintegrative Disorder This rather rare condition was described many years before autism (Heller, 1908) but has only recently been 'officially' recognized.
  • The condition develops in children who have previously seemed perfectly normal. Typically language, interest in the social environment, and often toileting and self-care abilities are lost, and there may be a general loss of interest in the environment. The child usually comes to look very 'autistic', i.e., the clinical presentation (but not the history) is then typical of a child with autism.
  • A special educator in Vienna, Theodore Heller, proposed the term dementia infantilis to account for the condition.
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  • in most cases after even very extensive testing no specific medical cause for the condition is found. As with autism, children who suffer from this condition are at increased risk for seizures.
  • evidence suggest that it arises as a result of some form of central nervous system pathology.
  • Childhood disintegrative disorder is perhaps 10 times less common than more strictly defined autism
  • Tero Toivanen on 27 Feb 09
     
    Childhood Disintegrative Disorder This rather rare condition was described many years before autism (Heller, 1908) but has only recently been 'officially' recognized.
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Kansas Autism Spectrum - 0 views

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Technology in Treatment of Autism - 0 views

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autism ASD:technology ASD:research ASD:instruction presentations videos for parents for teachers: special education

shared by J B on 01 May 09 - Cached
  • J B on 01 May 09
     
    overview of research on technology with people with autism, why technology is effective & how to incorporate it into any treatment program Series: "M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [1/2007]
Tero Toivanen

Yale Study Suggests Children with Autism Watch for the Wrong Visual Clues - 0 views

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autism Visual Clues

shared by Tero Toivanen on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. Now, an NIH-funded study in 2-year-olds with the social deficit disorder suggests why they might find mouths so attractive: lip-sync—the exact match of lip motion and speech sound.
  • Such audiovisual synchrony preoccupied toddlers who have autism, while their unaffected peers focused on socially meaningful movements of the human body, such as gestures and facial expressions.
  • "Typically developing children pay special attention to human movement from very early in life, within days of being born. But in children with autism, even as old as two years, we saw no evidence of this," explained Ami Klin, Ph.D., of the Yale Child Study Center, who led the research. "Toddlers with autism are missing rich social information imparted by these cues, and this is likely to adversely affect the course of their development."
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  • In theory, this finding could lead to educational techniques that could help very young children with autism build their social referencing skills. This could be hugely important for children with autism, since their challenges with "reading" social cues create so many problems as they enter school, interact with peers, and begin to navigate social relationships.
  • Tero Toivanen on 02 Apr 09
     
    Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. Now, an NIH-funded study in 2-year-olds with the social deficit disorder suggests why they might find mouths so attractive: lip-sync-the exact match of lip motion and speech sound.
Tero Toivanen

Facilitated Communication - Association for Science in Autism Treatment - 2 views

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communication science autism facilitated FC Facilitated Communication research special education ASD:teaching ASD:educators

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  • Tero Toivanen on 30 Dec 10
     
     "Research evidence, replicated across several hundred children with autism spectrum disorders, shows that the facilitators rather than the individuals with autism spectrum disorders control the communication and that FC does not improve language skills (Mostert, 2001). Therefore, FC is an inappropriate intervention for individuals with autism spectrum disorders."
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