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Mental Retardation Verbal Communication
1,488 wordsAutism can occur in as many as 22 of every 10, 000 births (COSAC 3). It knows no racial, ethnic, or social boundaries. The causes of the disorder are unknown; therefore no cure can be determined. It is a subject of debate and controversy among establish pediatr ans. Autism is poorly understood and extremely misrepresented. Autism is a behavior disease that controls the mind; it manifests itself at an early age. It impairs communication and social skills. It encompasses a broad spectrum of disord...
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Amino Acids Stress Hormones
1,374 wordsIn 1975, Dr. John Hughes and Dr. Kosterlitz discovered Endorphins. It has been confirmed that Endorphins have both neurological and spinal effects. Twenty different types of Endorphins have been discovered in the nervous system. The most effective, beta-endorphin, which gives the most euphoric effect to the brain, has been found to be composed of 31 amino acids. The word Endorphin is abbreviated from 'endogenous morphine' which means morphine produced naturally in the body. Endorphins are renown...
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Hearing Loss Autistic Children
1,270 wordsIn general, autism is the developmental disability that prevents individuals from properly understanding what they see, hear, or otherwise sense. Approximately 3 to 5 out of every 10, 000 school aged children have some for of autism, and males with the disorder outnumber females with it by nearly 5 to 1. It is estimated that 1 in every 500 display some autistic characteristics (Williams, xiv). Autism is called a spectrum disorder because there is no one characteristic and it is different in ever...
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Physical Exercise Lead Poisoning
1,253 words... t provides information on how the brain is actually functioning rather than the structure of the brain. Blood and urine analysis can be used to discover metabolic disorders and determine if there is any disease that is affecting the childs behavior. Blood lead level is another test because lead poisoning can have the same effects as autism and theoretically lead to autism. Lead poisoning can be treated, but the effects are not always reversible. Lastly, chromosome analysis can be done to rul...
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Interact With Peers Aspergers Disorder Social
331 wordsAspergers Disorder is a milder form of Autistic Disorder. They both fit in the same category know as either Autistic Spectrum Disorders or Pervasive Developmental Disorders. In Aspergers Disorder, affected people are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behavior in childhood. There are impairments in two-sided social interaction and non-verbal communication. Clumsiness is prominent both in their articulation and gross motor behavior. They usually have a circumscribed area of interest,...
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Sense Of Smell Man Named
1,586 wordsThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat The brain has been a curiosity to man since the beginning of science. Even though the actual term neuroscience only dates back to the 1970 s, the study of the brain is as old as science itself. As time and technology progresses neuroscience has undergone significant changes to become what it is today. New findings, new discoveries are always changing what we know, or think we know, about the brain. In a collection of narratives by Oliver Sacks entitled, The...
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Facilitated Communication Film Autism
371 wordsThe film on autism spoke about the causes, incidences, risk factors, and treatments for this condition. One of the treatments the film really focused on was facilitated communication. This therapy seemed to be frequently adapted for individuals suffering with autism. Though the cause of autism is unknown, it may include psychological, physiological, and sociological factors. The autistic child is unresponsive to other people, communicates poorly, and may seem to be repulsed by physical contact. ...
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Emotional Intelligence Attachment Figure
2,381 wordsThis paper outlines five problem parenting behaviours exhibited by alexi thymic parents in relation to their children. 1. Difficulty identifying feelings; Alexithymic individuals typically cannot recognize, understand, or give verbal accounting of emotional arousal in either themselves or others, and have therefore a profound inability to recognize and help regulate their own infant / childs emotional life. For the child of an alexi thymic parent this means that mirroring of his / her affective ...
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Hours Per Week Iq Scores
1,459 wordsHome Therapy and Autism 2 One of the most common developmental disabilities affects two out of every ten thousand children and appears before the age of three (Encarta, 2000). The disorder is autism. It is a disorder that severely impairs development of a persons ability to communicate, interact with other people, and maintain normal contact with the outside world. Autism is often referred to as a spectrum disorder, a disorder in which symptoms can occur in any combination and with varying degre...
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Source Of Her Strength Interest In Dentistry Cheryl
622 wordsI could hardly keep myself from staring at the girl: the right side of her face was misshapen and bigger than the left. Only later did I notice that Cheryl, about nine at the time, had light brown hair, lively brown eyes, and a captivating smile. When she walked into the candy shop where I worked six years ago, Cheryl told me she was a student of my former fourth grade teacher with whom I had kept in contact. We talked then and spent time talking each time she visited. She became a very special ...
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Family And Child Autistic Children Autism
391 wordsAutism Definition: Autism is classified by the World Health Organization and American Psychological Association as a developmental disability that results from a disorder of the human central nervous system. [ 1 ] Characteristics: Autism affects different people in different ways. But generally, victims of autism are characterized by lack of communication skills, hampered social interactions, and restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior. [ 2 ] Characterized by extreme shyness ...
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Mental Disorder Developmental Psychology
3,059 wordsAutism Autism: Definition Autism is often explored as the chain of abnormalities in development of an individual. The system responsible for perception of external stimuli is damaged so seriously that a child is not able to establish the emotional contact with other people. A child who suffers from autism experiences permanent problems in a process of communication an social development. Psychologists often notice so-called escape from reality with fixation on inner world of affective complexes ...
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First Three Years Years Of Life
1,149 wordsEarly Intervention And Detection Of Medical, Emotional, Early Intervention And Detection Of Medical, Emotional, And Physical Disorders And Disabilities In the past children with disabilities were most often neglected, abused, and even killed. Today, however, society has become more understanding and involved in the lives, as well as the education of people with disabilities. In 1975, PL 94 - 142, otherwise known as The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, was the first step to providing a...
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Autistic Children Behavior Therapy
1,836 wordsFalse Words and False Hopes Autism is a childhood disease where the child is in a private world of their own. A description of an autistic child by her mother is: We start with an image tiny, golden child on hands and knees, circling round and round a spot on the floor in mysterious self- absorbed delight. She does not look up, though she is smiling and laughing; she does not call our attention to the mysterious object of her pleasure. She does not see us at all. She and the spot are all there i...
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Autistic People Autism Children
346 wordsLeo Kanner, first described autism, in 1944, the mysterious disability of autism is characterized by a peculiar emotional and intellectual detachment from other people and the common human world. Autism is a developmental disability of the brain, much like mental retardation, and though many autistic people appear to act retarded, they are quite frequently intelligent. Two to four out of every 10, 000 children are diagnosed with autism: and 75 % of them are boys (autism-partI). Autism is usually...
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Abilities Are Buried Break This Barrier Genes
479 wordsI may seem to be someone with many unconnected facets and talents once you have read all the other essays on this application. This essay is intended to slap together a few of the pieces of myself that I have displayed here. The human race is immortal (that was a doozy wasnt it). There is nothing that forces us to decay into old age and die, this is merely our body destroying itself once our purpose (reproduction) is complete. Evolution not only did not bother to select against genes that kill o...
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Left Brain Left Hemisphere
1,240 wordsSavant Syndrome is a rare, but spectacular, condition in which persons with various developmental disabilities, including Autistic Disorder, have astonishing islands of ability or brilliance that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to the over-all handicap. In some, savant skills are remarkable simply in contrast to the handicap (talented savants). In others, with a much rarer form of the condition, the ability or brilliance is not only spectacular in contrast to the handicap, but woul...
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