AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

Gia Kuek, SLT, SI-OT
IKATWI Workshop,

20-21 May 2017, Bali

Objectives for today

• To gain understanding of autism spectrum disorder

• To gain understanding of communication and other features of autism spectrum

disorder

• To gain understanding of current research on early detection of autism

Autism spectrum disorder

• Disorder of communication rather than language

– Impairments in

• social interaction

• social communication

• social imagination

Current research and ASD

• Co-occuringmedicalconditions:

• Seizures: between 7%- 14% in children and

between 20% to 35% in adults (Bauman, 2010)

• Sleep disorders: most common, anything between 40% to 80% in children (Bauman,
2010)

Current research and ASD

• Other features:

– perseveration (repetitive stereotypical

movements)

– somatosensory disturbance (frequently engaging in movement or rocking)

Current research and ASD

• Other features

– mood disturbances, problems with

attention and safety (Pfeiffer, et al, 2011)

– sensory processing disorders (Pfeiffer, et al, 2011; Little, et al, 2015; Watson, et al,
2011)