Friday, May 8, 2015

Signs of Autism in Children

Autism is a developmental disorder on a person's nervous system caused by heredity and sometimes have been detected since the baby is 6 months old or also called disorders in mental abilities, so that patients with the disease tend to be slow in development and can not develop well as normal child his age.
In this article will explain the characteristics or signs of a child with autism, and the symptoms are:

1. Disorders Social Skills
Autism in general will find it difficult to interact with other people because they have the social skills disorders. On mild symptoms, the main feature is that commonly arise they look awkward when interacting with others and will feel alienated when assembled with many people. On the other hand, people with autism will tend to avoid eye contact.
 
2. Difficulty Empathize
For people with autism is difficult to understand the feelings of others so that they find it difficult to empathize. In addition, they are also difficult to recognize and understand body language and intonation of speech so as to communicate with them tend to be one-way because they talk more about himself.
 
3. Do not Like Physical Contact
Most children with autism do not like physical contact like a hug and touch. However, not all of them show the same characteristics as there is also an autistic child happy and often embrace those who are considered close to him.
 
4. Do not Like Sudden changes
In general, children with autism will get annoyed if there are changes that surprising as changing light conditions, temperature changes, scents, and sounds that all happened suddenly. The sudden change is believed to make them feel they are not disturbed because they can prepare in advance so it is advisable to tell him about everything that will happen.
 
5. Disorders While Talking
The next feature of autism can be detected by knowing a child's speech through communication, known to 40% of children with autism can not speak and some are only able to say a few words. Approximately 25-30% of people with autism can only say a few words and then speaking ability will be lost. Meanwhile, about 50% of them can speak after age rather large with a flat intonation of speech and formal, but they like to repeat certain words or phrases.
 
6. Like Repetitive Actions
And children with autism tend to like things that is certain that they were delighted to enjoy the same routine repeatedly and continuously. Introduce a new routine will be very annoying for them because of the repeated action become an obsession for children with autism.
 
7. Child Development is Not Balanced
And in general, a child's development is balanced and constant in accordance with the age at laluinya. However, development in children with autism is not balanced because their development in a particular field is fast, whereas in other areas it is too late.

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