Axia College Material Appendix F

Autism and Mental Retardation

Respond to the following:

1. List the primary features of autism. These are emotional and social reciprocity. This includes such characteristics as seeming indifference to physical care and loving emotional interests which others provide to an autistic individual, verbal and other communication and language impairments and an inability to use speech. Echolalia may be exhibited in those who can speak. Echolalia is the echoing of phrases used without apparent understanding. Delayed echolalia is the repetition of these phrases out of context later in the day. The variety of speech problems includes paranormal reversal (reversal of pronouns, such as I and you or me and we), difficulty in naming objects, lack of verbal...