Assignment 6

1. Autism is more often diagnosed in boys than in girls? _____

2. Autism can be caused by emotional deprivation. _____

3. Autism is on the increase. _____

4. Autism has the same rate of occurrence worldwide _____

5. Autism can be detected before a child is 2 years old _____

6. Autism runs in families ____

7. There is a single gene for autism ____

8. Autism can be caused by the MMR vaccine _____

9. A person with autism can grow out of it _____

10. People with autism all have below average intelligence _____

11. People with autism always prefer being alone _____

12. Adults with autism are not capable of working _____

13. People with autism can’t feel emotions ____

14. People with autism do not easily understand that other people are thinking _____

15. All people with autism display deficits in communication _____

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