Abstract
Autism is defined as a complex biological disorder that generally lasts throughout a person's life. Autism is a developmental disability and is first detected childhood. This critique will examine the experimentation methods used to study autism.
Experimentation Critique
Psychologist and the medical community make many claims about human behavior based on research. In science, the ultimate authority is research and experimentation. One area where mental health care authority is experimenting is with autism. Autism is a complex biological disorder that generally lasts throughout a person's life. The scientific community calls autism a developmental disability because it starts at in early childhood, before age three, while the brain is still developing. Autism causes delays or problems with many different ways in which a person develops or grows. One of the symptoms of this disorder is evident by the way it cuts off people with autism from the world around them (Rodier, 2000).
Autism affects children with the disorder in many different ways. For example, an autistic child may not want their mothers to hold them. Adults and children with autism may not look others in the eye. Some people with autism never learn how to talk. These behaviors not only make life difficult for people who have autism, but also make life hard for their families, their health care providers, their teachers, and anyone who comes in contact with them (Rodier, 2000).
Causes of Autism
Since the mental disorder called autism was identified, researchers have struggled to determine what causes it. Scientists claim conventional wisdom for where originates is that autism is inherited, although environmental risk factors also seem to play a role (Rodier, 2000). Starting ...