What is ASD?

What is ASD?

1. Social Communication

   • Deficits in social and emotional recriprocity
     • Failure of back and forth conversation
     • Reduced sharing of interests
     • Failure to initiate or respond to social interactions
   • Non-verbal communicative behaviour
     • Poor intergrated verbal and non-verbal communication
     • Abnormalities with eye contact and body language
     • Total lack of facial expression or use of gestures
   • Developing relationships with others
     • Difficulty adjusting behaviour
     • Difficulty in sharing, emotional play and making friends
     • Absence of intest in other people

2. Repetivite Patterns of Behaviour

   • Repetitive motor movements
     • Motor stereotypies
       • Rocking
       • Hand Flapping
       • Lining up or flipping objects
   • Use of objects or speech
     • Ecolalia
       • Echolalia is the repetition of phrases, words or parts of words.
     • Repetitive speech
     • Idiosyncratic Speech
       • Idiosyncratic language occurs when the child uses standard words or phrases in an unusual, but meaningful way. It is a broad term that can refer to a number of speech characteristics that are errors in the pragmatics of communication.
   • Insistance on sameness
     • Inflexable adherance to routine
       • Extreme distress at small changes
       • Difficulty with transitions
       • Rigid thinking patterns
       • Rituals related to greetings
       • Insistance on same route or food choices
     • Ritualised patterns of behaviour
   • Highly restrictive fixed interests
     • Abnormal in either intensity or focus
     • Hypo or hyper reactivity to sensory input
       • Indifferance to pain or temperature
       • Adverse response to certain sounds or textures
       • Excessively smelling or touching
       • Visual fascinations
         • Lights or movement of objects
     • Unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment