Autism Spectrum Disorders: Verbal And Nonverbal Communication

His fingernails are penetrating my skin and his grip is getting tighter with each progressively loud screech. “Michael”, I sharply continuously say, as I attempt to slowly gain ability to release each finger from my imprisoned arm. I am not in shock or unprepared for this situation, as Michael has autism and is working on his communication skills and behavioral outbreaks. Minutes pass, the screaming has stopped, his tears are still visible, but he is starting to focus on pushing a fire truck back and fourth. I sit patiently waiting for him to completely calm down; I’m waiting to hear him hum.

There is a lot of research on Autism. Many people do not know what autism is. “Autism spectrum disorder covers a set of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges. People with ASD process information in their brain differently than other people”(Communication Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 2012). Autism can range in severity and is different with each individual child. Autism affects every race, gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. People may wonder how does this affect communication? Well ASD people tend to live in a world all about them. People with ASD tend to not understand others emotions or understand what is said. ASD can effect a person’s communication

There are many disorders that can effect a child’s learning process. Autism is just one of these common disorders that effects 1 in 68 children (Balch). The American Psychiatric Association defines autism as, “a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and social interactions as well as restricted and repetitive behaviors, interests, or activities (Balch, p. 429).” These deficits in social communication greatly hinder the teaching-learning process within the classroom when successful strategies to help these children are not being pursued. Autism effects the communication skills of the child, and there are many effective strategies that can be implemented

In the interviews gathered, the researcher was trying to gain knowledge of what people think autism is and how they feel towards those who have autism. The most important finding in this was study was most people had a different experience with those with autism and most did not know what autism specifically is. This is the most important finding because the interviews helped gain a different perspective from what the literature said. Interviews were very interesting for the researcher to gain these insights from interviewees. The answers give insight into perceptions individuals have of experience and judgments interviewees have of autistic people.

Most children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have delays in language development relative to their nonverbal mental age (Stevens et al., 2000; Tager-Flushberg, 1988; Tager-Flusberg & Sullivan, 1998) and approximately half of young children with autism fail to acquire speech as their primary mode of communication (Prizant, 1996).

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a brain-based condition – that is, where the brain hasn’t developed in a typical way. Although no two children with ASD are the same, they all face challenges in interacting

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder of unknown etiology, but with a strong genetic basis. It develops and is typically diagnosed before 36 months of age. It is characterized by a behavioral phenotype that includes qualitative impairment in the areas of language development or communication skills, social interactions and reciprocity, and imagination and play [1– 3]. Hearing is one of our most important senses as it gives us access to spoken language, necessary for the development of speech, language and communication in general. Development of speech and language in children is a continuous process, in which the first years of life are of the greatest importance.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to other people (About Autism, 2015). It is identified by impairments in social interaction, communication and the presence of repetitive and restricted behavior interests (Robins, 2013). ASD can be identified at a young age through a variety of different characteristics that can be a red flag to parents to bring the child to get assessed as soon as possible. It is very important that we are socially aware about this particular issue. It is imperative as a society that we are sensitive to the needs of autistic individuals with communication difficulties. When society is sensitive to the needs and aware of the impairments

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a disability that affects many aspects of life, including reading comprehension levels. The University of Southampton has conducted a experiment on how people with ASD compared to TD (Typically Developed) or the “normal” people when it comes to their lexical, (figuring out the meaning of a word in a particular sentence) syntactic, (making connection between the words) and semantic(encoding the meaning of a word after hearing it.) processing. ASD is a known disorder found on the autism spectrum. Often those diagnosed with Aspergers have a difficult time understanding language versus visual communication. Both written and spoken communication can be even difficult to understand due to the way their brains process language. Summarizing and conveying back what's communicated can be more difficult. In this study, scientist wanted to know how a diagnosis of Aspergers affected reading comprehension.

I think autism is something dealing with communication skills. They have trouble talking and learning the way that normal people do. I think people who has autism can learn it’s just difficult for them to comprehend. Plus they can’t do things by their selves. They have to get people to help them do things like take their bath and even feed them. Some people with autism have trouble walking as well.

Autistic children has a tendency to refrain from this research. They prefer to be alone without any proper social interaction in their own world. Researcher need to attract them to gain their attention to perform this study. Communication between the child and the researcher need to be mutual to gain a cooperation from the child to communicate. There should a trained teacher accompanying the child when the interview is conducted. This is because the child might not communicate easily. Basically, researcher will need an assistant to help attract the children to communicate. Likewise, the researcher should have the knowledge of approaching atypical kind of children which is autism to perform a valid interview session and observations. However,

ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) is a long-lasting syndrome that impairs social skills interactions, communication, and imagination. Some consider this disease to be a learning disability. ASD children don’t know how to say what they want, by actions or words. They throw temper tantrums, bite, scream, throw-up, and have accidents in their pants when they get frustrated from not being understood. This is important to help this issue for both the child and for the parent. This impacts the daily life of functioning and creates challenges in socialization. In order to help a child communicate, you have to understand the exact gestures or symbols that a child performs, when they are referring towards an item or an event. ASD children’s rate of communication, joint attention, and communication gestures are much slower as well. Twenty percent of children and adults will never have the use of language skills, but a fraction may develop echolalia, which is repeating the last word or phrase that they had heard. In some cases, the echolalia is delayed and it could take days, weeks, months, or years until the child starts repeating what they had heard. The first step in the speech development is learning a single word or phrase. An ASD child may misuse the word or phrase by not using the correct grammar. When there is a word that has two different meanings, it creates confusion for the child, for example, you could

The triad of difficulties are areas in which people on the Autistic spectrum may be affected.

The autism spectral disorders are defined by the qualitative impairments in social communication. Although the actual reason for autism is still unknown to the medical sciences; it has been proved to be the result of abnormal and irregular growth of cerebral neurons of human brains. People suffering from autism very often demonstrate a poor performance in social interactions; and hence find it difficult to communicate to other people. On the other hand, it is equally difficult for others to communicate to them in the usual ways.

Actors and normal people alike, have exploited the ability to display emotion through body movement for centuries. However, until not long ago, psychologists considered body movements only as displays of the intensity of emotions not their specificity. Instead, facial expressions were thought to be crucial for the judgement of emotions (Ekman, 1973). It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that research into biological motion illustrated that emotional state can be judged by body movement, even if only basic emotions such as anger or happiness. However, the evolutionary function of humans’ ability to express emotion was suggested a whole century earlier by Darwin (1872).