《医学院校研究生英语读与写（第四版）》 课件 Unit 9 Text B Autism Boom An Epidemic of Disease or of Discovery.pptx

医学院校研究生英语读与写（第四版）;English for Master Students in Medical Universities;Unit Nine ;Outline ;Background information;Background information;Background information; ;Global analysis of the text;His problems, staff members said, were nothing more than common developmental delays that he would eventually outgrow. (Para. 4); “Once we are primed to see something, we see it and wonder how we could have never seen it before,” (Para. 7);Nevertheless, society is marshaling resources in the name of autism as never before. (Para. 8);Autism accounts for 14% of the caseload at the Central Valley Regional Center, one of the nonprofit agencies that arrange state-funded services for people with developmental disabilities. (Para. 11);But nearly everywhere, the new iteration of autism is spreading, one child at a time. (Para. 13);A driving factor is that parents, physicians and educators have become intent on identifying it as early as age 2, in the hopes of diminishing its symptoms through treatments that are now widely available. (Para. 13);“It used to be that autism was the diagnosis of last resort,” said Catherine Lord, director of the Institute for Brain Development at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a leading authority on autism diagnosis. (Para. 13);As for his previous behavior, she said she’s not sure if it was “pure autism” or not. “But I didn’t take a chance.” (Para. 14);Text structure analysis;Text structure analysis;Summary of the text;Summary of the text;Summary of the text;Reference answers to the exercises;3. Vocabulary 1) distress 2) detrimental 3) fetus 4) autoimmune 5) Combined 6) speculated 7) associated 8) studied 9) spectrum 10) grants ;Questions are welcome!Thank you!