Chance Is a 3-Year-Old Boy Who Uses Repetitive Speech Patterns

question 63

Multiple Choice

Chance is a 3-year-old boy who uses repetitive speech patterns, avoids eye contact, does not like to be touched, and spends hours flapping his arms while watching a top spin on the kitchen floor. Chance will probably be diagnosed as having

• A) schizophrenia.
• B) autism.
• C) hyperactivity.
• D) childhood psychosis.

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