Autism
Is a psychiatric condition called Autism Spectrum Disorder, a mental disorder and cerebral disability that affects children. It is defined as a complex neurodegenerative state, including weakness in social interaction, language skills, and developmental communication, as well as typical behaviors and movements such as sitting motionless, Continue to vibrate in patients with autism.
The symptoms of autism appear on the child before the age of three years and continue with him for life, and show the child many symptoms and a variety of parents to alert their child to the disease, it is worth mentioning that male children increase the incidence of autism more than four times of female children, the following is a broader explanation The causes of autism, its symptoms, and its types.
Causes of Autism
Studies have shown that some people are genetically predisposed to autism. This means that the susceptibility to this condition is primarily hereditary. Other causes are less affected by autism, such as environmental changes or abnormalities in several areas of the brain, Of the growth of the fetus in the womb of the mother. It is worth mentioning that the brains of children with autism grow faster and larger than the brains of ordinary children.
Symptoms of autism
- Difficulty in verbal communication, including problems in language understanding and use.
- The inability to participate in the conversation even when the child is able to speak normally.
- Difficulty in nonverbal communication such as gestures, facial expressions.
- Difficulty in social interaction, inability to distinguish people from their own environment, difficulties in forming friendships, and preferring to play alone.
- Unusual ways to play with toys, and play with unusual things like bed sheets, blankets.
- Difficulty adapting to surrounding environmental changes, and never wanting to change daily routines.
- Movements, behavioral and motor patterns such as vibration, dizziness around himself, and preoccupation with unusual things.
- Some Savantisim-type children have exceptional skills in specific areas such as music, art, numerology, and are able to practice these skills without taking lessons or courses.
- The absence of any sounds during the first months, and the absence of any verbal skills during the early stages of life, and this is one of the first symptoms that alert parents to the injury of their child autism.
Facts about autism
- One child has autism among sixty-eight children, and one in forty-two.
- Autism is one of the fastest growing growth disorders in the United States, with an average cost of treatment of $ 60,000 a year.
- There is no cure or prescription for the treatment of autism.