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An Autistic Chimpanzee and her Neurobiologically Appropriate Therapy

I offer the video component to one of the presentations that I will give at the National Autism Society of American annual conference in Orlando, Florida on July 7th, 2011: The systems theory of autistogenesis must inform any therapeutic autism intervention. This presentation describes such an approach with a female chimpanzee, Elia, characterized autistic according to revisions proposed for DSM-5, 299.00 Autistic Disorder. Video documentation demonstrates qualitative and quantitative impairments of social interaction, deficits in use and production of communicative means, cyclic CNS activity producing repetitive behaviours and fixed interests, and intolerance to environmental change and extremes in sensory stimuli. Because massive nonlinear synaptic pruning sculpts cortical connections while advancing myelination inhibits plasticity, neurobiologically appropriate stimulus must target impaired domains yet sensitive to modification, and this video illustrates the early development of such an intervention. To enjoy the abstract to this presentation, please use the following web address: http://asa.confex.com/asa/2011/webpro... The research paper inspired by this work is now published and available through the following linnk: http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/early/... For more information about the J.A.C.K. sanctuary, please visit: http://jack.wildlifedirect.org