Most Common Features of Autism

                

 

The autistic disorder is mainly characterized by the impaired social interaction as well as by the refusal of the patients to respond to their names or react to other people?s eye contact. Autistic children can hardly integrate voices and usually look for facial expressions to give them cues about the behavior. They are unable to understand or show feelings and their behavior has a negative impact on the others.

Most of them cannot express themselves by voice; the ones who do that will refer to their own person by name instead of ?me? or ?I?. They engage in repetitive actions and can even reach to self-hurting behavior. Normally, autistics do not show interest in other people?s topics and talk in own favorite topics.

Autism makes his patients vulnerable to all types of sensors. Their reduced response to pain turns into anxiety while listening to an abnormal sound. They mostly hate being touched and usually resist cuddling. Autism symptoms are developed in the first three years of life and last life-long. The most important features of autism are impaired social interaction, limited interests and actions and communication problems. The autistic disorder varies from easy forms with children able to develop basic language skills, to a severe form when patients cannot communicate at all.

The development problems beside other children their age start at about 18-36 months when they reject persons, loose language or social skills they may have already accumulated. In time they get to hardly engage in social interactions and avoid eye contact; autistic patients like to be alone, resist affection or accept hugs passively. Parents are most affected by the child?s lack of attention or joy at their sight.

These patients tend to live a wildly life as facial expressions or gestures do not mean anything. They hardly get to understand the feelings or wishes of others and usually respond only to routine questions or cues as they are unable to differentiate different people?s actions and feelings. Autistic disorder makes patients resist changes in their routine environment and even react aggressive by breaking things, attacking people or hurting themselves; their tendency of doing these things occurs mostly when they are upset, angry or when something bothers them.

Most of the autism sufferers remain silent during their lives; some of them though seem to begin talking in the first 6 months when they suddenly stop developing. Some develop delayed language skills but most of them must be taught to communicate by signs and special equipments. Those who manage to learn a few words cannot bind them into sentences and mostly use them senseless or in repetitive order. A characterizing feature of autism is echolalia making the patients repeat words or phrase they have heard even several weeks before. It usually goes by at the age of three. Autistic children confuse pronouns and change the meaning of ?me? or ?I? according to the person speaking.

Early and proper treatment and care is essential for them to learn at least basic skills and communication means.

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Find Out The History, Symptoms and Treatment Of Autism

                

 

Autism is known by several different names. Some call it autism, others call it Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and others refer to it by what is typically known as a ?lighter? form of autism, Aspergers Syndrome or Aspergers Disorder. The disorder is usually identified by a marked delay in a child?s areas of communication and social interactions. While autism is not only found in children, it can typically be successfully identified during the first three years of a child?s life.

Autistic spectrum disorder is a difficult affliction to diagnose. There is not a physical ailment that can be readily seen, such as a broken arm or open wound, yet the affliction can be much worse than either of those if untreated or even worse, if it goes undiagnosed for a long period of time. Since it is difficult to diagnose, various tests are performed on the patient to determine if certain sets of criteria are met which would define autism. For this reason, the diagnosis of autism is a relatively subjective process that typically requires specialists in this area to accurately determine.

For several decades, autism has been known as one of the most severe neurological disorders pertaining to the normal development of a child?s communications skills, ability to focus and concentrate, and general social interaction skills. For a long time, it was thought to be relatively rare, but more recent studies estimate that approximately 1 in every 150 children are afflicted by it to some degree. Sometimes the ?degree? is almost undetectable and does not present a major challenge to that child as they develop and grow, but for others, it will clearly present them with challenges.

There is not a currently known cure for autism, but once it has been diagnosed and the severity of it determined, there are things that can be done to minimize the effects of it. Sometimes this may include prescription medications. Although the results are not yet definitive, some scattered reports of success have been noted with secretin treatments for both children and adults. Common treatments include special education with trained professionals who understand autistic spectrum disorder, which would also include behavioral interventions and dietary changes.

A prevailing thought, although not yet definitive, is that autism is a neurological or psychological disorder that is inherited. It has been concluded, however, that autism is not a reflection of parenting skills, where the lack of a nurturing mother would be a cause of autism. Some studies have indicated that a dietary change can have a notable positive effect on the autistic patient, like changing to a glutin-free diet. Other studies have shown that going through a process to remove mercury from the system had a very positive effect. But again, these studies are currently inconclusive.

Yet other studies have focused in other areas. For example, one thought is that the production of testosterone plays a role in autism, which would partially explain why such a dramatically greater percentage of males versus females are afflicted with ASD.

Since autism is difficult to accurately diagnose, sometimes the affliction which might be labeled as autism is actually Aspergers Syndrome, which simply put, is just a milder form of autistic spectrum disorder. For more information about Aspergers Disorder, you may wish to visit Aspergers Syndrome Explained to get more insights. Also similar would be many of the symptoms of yet another related disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder, and you can get more information about ADD at All About Attention Deficit Disorder.

Bottom line: watch your children and know the signs of autism, since early detection and accurate early diagnosis provides your best chances to minimize the detrimental effects.

Jon is a computer engineer who maintains web sites on a variety of topics based on his knowledge and experience. You can read more about Autism and Autistic Spectrium Disorder (ASD) at his web site at Autism Explained.