Asd Reflection

Specific data in regards to the individual’s social development and behaviour is collected. Inquiries about core ASD symptoms including, unusual, or repetitive behaviours and social relatedness are done, the family’s input is important.

And there are a few reasons for ASD, yet the vast majority of them are not known yet. There are some symptoms that can easily recognize in kids with autism, as a consequence this will help to begin the treatment early. Parents usually are attention of the sings in the first two years of their child’s life. Autism appears to be occurring more much than was the case in

The next year and a half he suffered from severe depression and attempted suicide twice by drug overdose. For the past six months he had been seeing a therapist at the university’s psychological services center regularly. Upon coming to see another therapist there was previous diagnoses made on Steven by a private therapist a little while back. Mr. and Mrs. V. felt the need that their son need to continue seeing a private therapist but he had stopped the therapy his junior year for unknown reasons. He had been seeing a psychotherapist since he attended kindergarten. He was very quiet, did not speak much and was unresponsive at times to the environment. His kindergarten school psychologist noted his actions and conditions to be autistic like. Mr. and Mrs. V. immediately hired a prominent child psychiatrist to work with him regularly and whom later denied him being autistic in any way but stated he would need intensive treatment for many years. Steven was

2. This observation occurred between the OT and a child named Ian. Ian is 9 years old and does not have any specific diagnoses; the OT informed me that he just has minor cognitive delays as well as underdeveloped fine and gross motor skills. The OT also informed me that he was homeschooled by his mother. We were in the OT room and we were sitting at the table. We had just finished doing an obstacle course

After a few months of observation, M’s mother talked to M’s father about her concern. She considered M might have had autism. M’s father did not deny the fact that M had special needs, but he thought that M should not be autism because he had eye contact with other people. After the discussion, they bought M to the doctor and shared about their concerns. The family doctor referred M to the evaluations. After the diagnosis, M’s parents attended to M’s IEP meeting and helped develop his IEP. They shared the fact that M is a child with special needs to some of their relations and friends. Luckily, they got the supports and encouragement from those

For my home visit, I was able to observe a boy who was almost 2 years old. His name was Liam, and he was born with what is called, upside down guts. He suffered from low blood sugar seizures as well at a very young age. Because of these seizures, he had a feeding tube in all day. His sensory skills are not at his age level because he never had to feel the texture of foods. He is currently doing much better but is very fussy. When I went with the service provider, a speech pathologist also came along. This was his day to be evaluated for his speech. The service providers did not bring any toys with them but used toys at the home. While I observed they wanted him to place a ball into a hole of his toy. The speech service provider would put the ball in his hands, take the ball away, give him a paper that had a picture of a ball and the word on its.

The DSM-5 notes frequent co-occurrence of other neurodevelopmental disorders. However, if a child’s symptoms are better and more completely explained by ASD, intellectual developmental disorder, global developmental delay or another mental disorder, a diagnosis of SCD cannot be made. The notable absence of restricted and repetitive behaviors is the important in appropriately diagnosing a patient with SCD versus ASD.

Roger Evans is a 5-year-old enrolled in general education kindergarten classes. Roger has been identified as having ASD during a routine check-up at the age of three. Roger’s parents had been unemployed and receiving government aid. Roger’s parents have not been taking advantage of supportive resources. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have not informed the school that Roger has been identified as having ASD. During the first week, Roger’s teacher Ms. Moore observed Roger sporadically sitting by himself during lunch and recess rocking back and forth and hitting himself in the face. Ms. Moore also noticed that Roger was anti-social with his peers. Ms. Moore recorded her observations for two weeks. Roger’s behavior became a daily occurrence. Ms. Moore met with the principal, counselor, special education, and Roger’s parents to discuss her concerns. Roger’s parents admitted that Roger had been identified with ASD and has been fine at home.

The mothers were asked around 200 questions involving their child development and behaviour at 6 months of age and again at 18 months of age. The questions were not geared towards ADHD, but instead were very general questions about the childs skills and other areas of functioning. There was also a question asking the mother about the expirience of of raising her child. If her answer had the word “difficult”, the interview would ask, why, then eventually seperating the answers into 14 catagories. When the child was between 8-14 years old, the mother was then contacted to see if their child had been clinically diagnosied with

He was on a daily behavioral intervention based on a thumbs up/down checklist, and the OT and Speech specialists were coming once or twice a week to work with him. Currently Daniel

When children get diagnosed with a particular disorder, it is important for the parents to accept that their child does have a problem. Some parents, do everything that’s right; regular therapies, medications but in their hearts, they align to the idea that their kid is completely normal. The child spends 80 percent of the time at home and 20 percent with the therapist, so if the parent hasn’t fully accepted that their child is special, their attitudes and parenting style towards the child won’t be ideal. There is also a completely deranged extreme set of people, who believe they can sort

When a child is demonstrating very agitated behaviors, lacks eye contact and does not maintain a regular feeding or sleeping schedule and have suddenly lost their language skills, there should be a pause of concern. If I were presented with these concerns as a parent, I would take great measures to make sure they are well cared for and diagnosed correctly. The second my child is even presenting one of these concerns; I need to make a doctors appointment with my pediatrician. The sooner you are able to diagnosis a child with a disability or condition, the sooner you can begin an intervention. I really think it is important to be over cautious about my child rather then under cautious because they have no way of communicating to you about how they feel. If the doctor notices anything abnormal about my child, it is important that they refer me to a specialist who his trained to handle children with disabilities such as a psychologist. I think that it is really difficult to determine the cause and treatment of the child moving forward without knowing about he genetics and how they were raised. The environment in which the child lives in plays a huge role in the child ability to develop. If the parents do not have the right tool to get their child tested, they might let these issues

You are concerned about the behaviour of one of the children with whom you are involved. You believe that this is due to learning development problems, and suspect this may be due to underlying medical issues.

Before being recently combined under one umbrella diagnosis of ASD there are a few specific subtypes of ASD (“What is Autism,” n.d.). These distinctive subtypes of ASD are autistic disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD), pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and Asperger syndrome (“What is Autism,” n.d.). Childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD) was one of the distinctive subtypes of ASD. In addition, Childhood disintegrative disorder is a rare disorder that typically affects males (Ryan, Hughes, Katsiyannis, McDaniel, and Sprinkle, 2011). Childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD) is defined by a period of time where normal development is occurring associated with an increase in the appearance of Autism Spectrum Disorder related symptoms including loss of motor, social, and language skills and these symptoms usually develop between 3 and 4 years old (Ryan, Hughes, Katsiyannis,

I spent about 2 hours with my friend, Liz and her son Justin to assess him via the ASQ 3, which incidentally her Primary Care Physician had asked her to do a couple weeks prior. He actually scored a little higher this time, possibly from going through the assessment twice. Justin had also taken an ASQ when he was one years old. Justin and his mother went to weekly classes for the past two years engaging in play therapy with a clinician. It would seem that there was developmental concerns from a young age for these issues to have been discussed and worked on for the past two years. Liz was homeless and on drugs when she first discovered that she was pregnant. She was also older when she gave birth to Justin, 37 years old which the