Author: Tito Mukhopadhyay

Created by: Amanda Anderson

Athens Technical College

Human Growth and Development Phycology

Emotional

Physical

Social

Cognitive

The severity of autism is correlated with the severity of their motor skills.

Tito showed severe autism in his gross motor skills when not being able to put on his shirt.

He showed severe autism in fine motor skills when trying to hold a pencil.

Improvement in motor skills suggests improvement in autism severity.

Even though it is hard for him to learn motor skills, he does end up mastering them through hard work.

He learned to put his shirt on and eventually wrote novels with using a pencil.

Repetitive behaviors and obsessions are higher in autistic individuals.

These behaviors include movements, repetitive language, routine and strong desire for the same environments.

Tito showed repetition in movements by having an obsession in climbing up down stairs.

He showed repetition in routine by wanting to go on the train everyday.

Although he could not talk he showed repetition in his thoughts

He showed repetition in environment by needed to go to the train station so badly everyday.

Hyposensitive and hypersensitive behavior in autism.

Tito’s ability to develop normally was affected by these sensory difficulties.

Tito showed an hypersensitive behavior when staring for hours jut looking at the ceiling fan.

He showed an exaggeration with the sensory of touch as well as vision. He would turn on and off the light switches until forced to stop.

he displayed hyposensitive behavior when screaming in a tantrum. When he creamed he could only hear his screams.

Also showing a lack of sensory when having a man read to him he did not know. He could not hear the man read.

Aggression in autism comes from the need to voice their feelings

Autistic individuals who learn to communicate better reduce their aggressive behaviors.

Because Tito could not talk he often felt frustration that would lead to anger.

When his teacher told him good job he took that as an insult and showed his frustration by ripping his shirt.

The only communication he had between his mother was through a letter board, which lead to aggression towards her at times.

As he became older, his language also improved a little, which lead to him having friends.

Autistic individuals use pictures as a main thought process and in performing duties.

To Tito the mirror on the wall spoke to him through the reflection of colors in his room.

In his mind he heard what he saw.

In autism, individuals struggle with word representation and as a result they souly relay on visuals.

Tito amazed people in how fast he could solve the hardest puzzles.

He used also described his feelings about people in colors. He described his neighbor as having a smile of the ugly yellow.

Greater social anxiety without the fear of another’s opinion.

Autistic individuals tend to have a lot anxiety associated with many phobias.

Tito had anxiety in not being able to look at someone in the eye.

Being around new people made him anxious

Become anxious from the phobia of losing his shadow.

Had a fear that caused anxiety from not being able to predict what might happen.

Autistic individuals do well in the skills of self-awareness/self knowledge and acationly in goal setting skills.

Skills such as decision making/problem solving, leadership/self advocacy and self management/self regulation are difficult.

Tito is able to be independent, having his own thoughts about life as an individuals and setting his own goals.

Tito shows his independence by having his own ideals of autism. He had a goal to give people his perspective of autism.

With the help of his mother he was able to reach his goal by writing his novel about his ideas on autism.

He contributes to society, despite autism by giving people a new understanding about autism through his book.

If more emphasis was put on the five skills that cause difficulty, it could lead to better mastery.

Even though Tito was unresponsive to people even to his mother, she still continued to teach him these seven skills.

Even when people discarded him as unable, his mother early on pushed him to learn.

Sociocultural Theory by Vygotsky

Vygotsky emphasized the influence of culture and more experienced adult teaching as ways of learning.

Tito wanted to learn the ways of his culture and with the help of his mother and speech therapist he was able accomplish this.

Some individuals reach normal behavior limits with only some struggles in concentration, language and controlling emotion.

Although Tito will always be autistic, he has improved from the severity of his symptoms and will continue improving.

He learned to begin talking a little, was able to make friends and talked about his pursuit for independence.

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