Deck 7: Language and Children With Autism

Question 1

Why are self-stimulatory behaviors such as head banging not, on their own, diagnostic of autism?

Answer 1

It is not enough to simply use self-stimulatory behaviors to diagnose autism because it is one of the most
complicated areas of medical and educational diagnosis. A child must show six or more behaviors
characteristic of the disorder for the diagnostic criteria of autism to be met. The required diagnostic criteria
are used to rule out any other possible diagnoses.

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Question 3

When should standardized tests be used with children suspected of having autism spectrum disorders?

Answer 3

The nature of the social impairment in children with autism makes most norm-referenced testing unreliable. Many of these children lack the ability to attend to stimuli presented in a fixed manner; they may have no consistent verbal or nonverbal means of responding; and the responses they produce may be contaminated by the intrusion of echolalia or idiosyncratic language. The best results may, therefore, be obtained from a standardized observation protocol such as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule.

Question 4

Describe the phonology of children with autism.

Answer 4

One of the generalizations that can be made about the language abilities of children with autism is that they typically do not show severe specific developmental impairment at the levels of segmental phonology (consonant and vowel production).

Question 5

What is meant by theory of mind?

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Question 7

What are the three major areas identified as the core features of autism as outlined in the DSM-IV?

A) social, communication, and stereotyped behaviors
B) intelligence, social behaviors and cognition
C) speech, social and stereotyped behaviors
D) intelligence, cognitive and language deficits .

Question 8

Effective communication in children with ASD requires interaction between goodness of fit, ecological systems, and what other system?

A) culture of the family
B) public school
C) medical community
D) welfare system

Question 9

There is a saying that "a rose by any other name is still a rose". How might this apply to a discussion about
autism?

Question 10

Discuss the importance of early identification of children with suspected autism. What professionals are likely to be involved?

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Question 12

Why is normed-referenced testing problematic in young children with suspected autism?

A) tests for 0-3 population are not available
B) social impairment may impact performance
C) symptoms do not emerge until age three
D) normal development is not well understood

Question 13

Discuss the communicative function of echolalia.

Question 14

How do the symptoms of autism change with adolescence?

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Question 16

Which treatment approach is less adult dominated in that the adult follows the child's lead and facilitates communication through behavioral strategies such as modeling, shaping, and reinforcement?

A) ABA
B) Social Interaction Theory
C) Behavioral
D) CABA
Multiple Choice

Question 17

What is meant by asynchronous development?

A) skills are acquired in an abnormal order
B) skills are developed equally
C) skills are universally depressed
D) skills are addressed at the same time

Question 18

What is meant by unusual sensory behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder?

Question 19

How could a tendency to ritualistic behaviors be used in therapy?

Question 20

Outline how a social interaction theory might be implemented in language therapy.

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Question 22

The degree of autism is defined by the severity of the child's language impairment.

Question 23

List three possible early clinical goals for a child with autism.

Question 24

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders often have problems with correct use of pronouns.

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Question 26

Autism is a disorder of the emotional system.

Question 27

Impaired prosody is uncommon in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Question 28

What is meant by incidental teaching in treatment of autism?

Question 29

Research has recently shown that echolalia has a specific communicative intent.

Question 30

Pervasive Developmental Disorder is a diagnosis which excludes Rhett's Disorder and Asperger's
Syndrome.

Question 31

Asynchronous development refers to the likelihood of a child with autism developing some language skills
significantly before others.

Question 32

Segmental phonology, syntactic comprehension, and lexical comprehension are often unimpaired in
children with autism.