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1617 Exam 2 (Essay)

 I choose to write about the movie titled Radio  (2003), the young man named James Robert Kennedy was born as his mother in the movie stated “there is no name for what is wrong with Radio. It is almost certainly a genetic disorder, because both his father and his younger brother, George Allan Kennedy , share the same defect.” In the movie it seems like James displayed some type of autistic spectrum disorder, which is an autism development disability that causes problems with social interaction and communication. Symptoms usually cause some delays and problems in many different skills that normally develop during infancy. While watching the movie you could tell that James displayed the qualitative impairment in social <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">interaction as manifested by the lack of nonverbal behaviors, failure to develop peer <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">relationships, and lack of social or emotional reciprocity. As a result, he seemed to display little <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">or no eye contact, his body and facial expressions were ridged, and he used few gestures. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Another impairment was in communication, which could be characterized as an autistic disorder <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(APA 2000). His speech lacked the smooth characteristics of the typical speech pattern, his <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">vocabulary was limited and he rarely initiated and conversations. Autism is tends to <range type="comment" id="952572">run in <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">families, it is also very common in identical twins, who share the same genes, are much more l <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">likely to both have autism than are fraternal twins. <range type="comment" id="663527">The most common reason a child will develop <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">autisms is due to big chunks of DNA that are missing or get duplicated. Though it was not stated <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">in the movie the reason why James had the condition he had, we can base the many similarities <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">to autism being the culprit behind his problem.

**__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Work Cited __**

1.Autism and Genetics." //Understanding Genetics//. The Tech Museum, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news49>.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times; font-size: 16px;">2."Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)." //Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)//. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/asd.cfm>. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times; font-size: 16px;">3."Radio - James Robert Kennedy - Reel Faces at ChasingtheFrog." //ChasingtheFrog.com//. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/radio.php>.

Content/Development--40%

 * Displays an understanding of relevant theory--you are in serious danger of confirmation bias here. You need to spend more time ruling out other things if you want to say this is an autistic spectrum disorder, and not some cognitive condition that dragged the social skills down with it :** -1 point. **
 * Major points supported by specific details/examples--you go out on a limb a little with your data, but I can still tell you are definitely interacting with this deeply.

**Style/Mechanics--30%**
=Final Grade: 8/10=
 * Properly cites ideas/info from other sources--references are not APA or MLA, and you need more in-text citations. You cite "APA 2000" which is not in your works cited: **-1 point.**