Showing papers on "Autism published in 1970"

Systematic identification of perceptual disabilities in autistic children.

Abstract: Matching-to-sample tasks were used to test the ability of six autistic children to make visual, vocal, and fine motor responses in response to visual and auditory stimuli. The results indicated that: the testing method was appropriate for low-functioning children; the group was heterogeneous with respect to perceptual deficits; and fine motor performance was poor. The data suggest that a basic difficulty in infantile autism may not be an avoidance of auditory and visual stimuli per se but rather a deficit in ability to make cross-modal associations. It is further suggested that the testing method would be useful for constructing profiles of perceptual disabilities with many types of low-functioning children.

Autism and the Phase of Transition to Therapeutic Symbiosis

Abstract: (1970). Autism and the Phase of Transition to Therapeutic Symbiosis. Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-20.

Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Emergency Department: Looking Beyond Behavior

Abstract: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition that is behaviorally defined by its well-recognized impairments in verbal and non-verbal communication and social interactions in addition to distinctive restrictive and repetitive behaviors (APA, 1994). Over the past decades the incidence of this disorder has dramatically increased. Although the reason or reasons for this increase is still up for debate, the fact remains that ASD is now estimated to affect 1 in 68 children in the United States (Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network Surveillance Year Principal, Centers for Disease, & Prevention, 2014)

Impairment of auditory regulation, and rubella.

Abstract: To the Editor.— Ames et al (213:419, 1970) allude in passing to the possibility that central auditory imperception traceable to fetal rubella infection is associated with the development of emotional reactions if the afflicted children cannot acquire language. Evidence is accumulating that central regulatory impairments, including auditory imperception, may give rise to autistic behavior in vulnerable children.1-4It is conceivable that some cases of developmental aphasia, with autism as presenting behavior, are variants of the congenital rubella syndrome. The emphasis of the authors on early treatment of central auditory imperception by providing a program of speech awareness is well taken. Amelioration or even prevention of the profound arrest in social development of some children can be achieved by this method. Speech and language training, along the lines suggested in the article for children with central auditory imperception, has reversed the social isolation of young autists5but not

Mathematics education for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Where are we now?

Abstract: Individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the fastest growing disability group, exhibit varying degrees of intellectual ability Students with ASD are increasingly held accountable to academic standards comparable to their peers Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is widely considered best practice for supporting these students Twenty-six single-case design (SCD) mathematics classroom teaching interventions, conducted with students diagnosed with ASD, were systematically located and reviewed in detail Most interventions were conducted in special education mathematics classrooms involving low ability students Interventions typically targeted simple mathematics skills, and a paucity of research addressing more complex mathematical skills was noted Elsewhere in the literature, teachers who have students with ASD in their classrooms reported having received no autism training, and described subsequent stress and potential to burn-out as a result A need for future research with high ability mathematics students is observed, and the relevance of a values paradigm approach is proposed

Historical Approach to the Problem of Autism

Abstract: Both Kanner and Asperger, in selecting the term autism to designate the fundamental disturbance suffered by their patients, refer to Eugen Bleuler. So far, however, there has been no detailed critical analysis of the post-Bleuler psychological literature on this topic; neither Kanner, nor Asperger, nor other child psychiatrists writing on early infantile autism have dealt with this. It is certainly not our intenion to trace the historical development of the problem of autism here, but it seems important to us, if we are to find a suitable place from which to start, having regard to the present state of the problem, to give a short survey of the more important psychopathological and anthropological works written earlier on autism in adults.

The Treatment of Autistic Children

Abstract: During 1968, a centre for the treatment of autistic children was established in Perth, Western Australia, under the administration of the Mental Health Services. It was named in honour of Dr. Mildred Creak, whose authoritative contribution to the study of autism and her invaluable assistance in establishing this centre is thereby recognized.