Characteristics Of ASD Flashcards
(11 cards)
What are the 2 main categories of symptoms?
Social communication/interactions and repetitive behaviours/restricted interests.
What are the social communication/interaction characteristics?
People with ASD struggle to use verbal/nonverbal communication in social interactions.
Social emotional reciprocity.
Nonverbal communication.
Developing and maintaining friendship.
What are the repetitive behaviours/restricted interests characteristics of ASD?
People with ASD have strict routines, behaviour patterns and fixed interests
Repetitive behaviour patterns.
Routines, rituals, resistance to change.
Restricted/fixed interests.
Unusual reactions to sensory input.
Describe the social-emotional reciprocity characteristic of ASD.
Struggling to convey interests/emotions.
Doesn’t initiate conversation/finds it difficult to respond meaning can be a 1 sided interaction as it’s difficult to maintain flow.
May give an inappropriate response.
Describe the non-verbal communication characteristic of ASD.
They rarely use facial expressions and sometimes use non-verbal cues innapropriately.
Expressions may not match conversation.
May have issues with personal space (sitting too close).
Describe the developing/maintaining friendships characteristic of ASD.
They struggle to see the world from someone else’s perspective.
Often unaware of social ‘rules’ (asking personal qs).
Struggle to pick up on NVCs that suggests uncomfortableness.
So difficult to make friends.
Describe the repetitive behaviour patterns characteristic of ASD.
Unusual use of language (repeating what they just heard).
Bizarrely formal/pedantic language.
Repetitive gestures.
Using objects the same way, over and over.
Describe the routines, rituals and resistance to change characteristic of ASD.
Inflexible rigidity regarding routines, no variation.
Verbal rituals.
Overreacts to changes in routine.
Difficulty recognising sarcasm/irony as they break ‘speech rules’.
Describe the restricted/fixed interests characteristic of ASD.
ASD people have an intense preoccupation with a narrow interest, excluding all others.
Describe the unusual reactions to sensory input characteristic of ASD.
Adverse to touch.
Distressed at loud/strange sounds.
Obsessive interest in movement of something.
May look closely at objects for long periods.
Can appear indifferent to pain.
What is ASD?
A lifelong developmental disorder that begins in childhood and impairs everyday functioning. It’s on a spectrum which means everyone shares the core difficulties but to different degrees.
