Dr Penny Tok
*Autism: issues and main characteristics
*Autism: link between profile and ToM
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DSM IV- TR
Pervasive Developmental Disorder: disorders usually
first diagnosed in infancy, childhood or adolescence.
Includes:
- Autistic Disorder
- Aspergers Disorder
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder- Not Otherwise
Specified (PDD-NOS).
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD)
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DSM 5 – out in 2013
AUTISM
TRIAD OF IMPAIRMENTS
Social Interaction
Communication
Rigidity of
Behaviour
Autism
Triad of
Impairments
Strong genetic basis:
… although how and what
structural and biochemical
events occur, when and in
what order it occurs in is
unknown
Environmental risk
factor:
any event
occurring after
FERTILISATION
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Autism Diagnostic
Observation
Schedule (ADOS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUwa
6ZkHtnY
Rigidity in BEHAVIOUR and THOUGHTS
Can be sensorial
What about executive functioning?
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HOW DO THE CLASSIC TRAID OF IMPAIRMENTS IN
AUTISM ACCOUNT FOR POOR THEORY OF MIND?
Social Interaction
Communication
Rigidity of
Behaviour
Autism
Triad of
Impairments
Theory of Mind in autism
Autism and links to Theory of Mind:
*Executive functioning: cognitive flexibility,
planning
*Language (inner speech and outer speech)
*Self-awareness (empathy)
*Intellectual functioning
*Sensory and perception issues