Autism
Both mother and father can observe the symptoms of autism during the first three years of the child’s life. Although the child has been afflicted with this disease since birth, it is difficult to be diagnosed during the first months of life. He does not like to be carried or overwhelmed by others, does not care about some games, may not be able to speak, and in some cases the child begins to speak and then lose this ability later.
Parents may be confused by the child’s auditory abilities; sometimes he seems to be unheard of, and sometimes he seems to have been alerted to distant sounds. It is important that both parents care for the early treatment of their autistic child; many children who have received treatment early have improved Their ability to communicate with others.
Signs and symptoms of autism
The severity of symptoms varies from child to child and can be divided as follows:
Social relations
- There are obvious problems in developing nonverbal communication skills with others, such as facial expressions, body posture, staring, and looking at the other person’s eyes.
- The inability of the autistic child to build relationships with children of the same age.
- Loss of desire and interest in sharing others with fun, interests, and achievements.
- Loss of feeling of others; an autistic child finds it difficult to understand the feelings of others such as pain and grief.
Communicating verbal and nonverbal
- Delayed speech, or inability to do so; according to studies, about forty percent of people with autism can not speak.
- Difficult to start the conversation, and difficulty in continuing the conversation after it begins.
- The use of repetitive, stereotyped language; people with autism often repeat what they have heard before.
- Difficulty in understanding the point of view of the receiving person, for example the individual can not understand the sense of humor, they may take the word meaning not intended.
Limited interest in activities, hobbies
- Unusual focus on things. Autistic children focus on specific pieces of toys. For example, you may find the child focusing on the wheels rather than playing them.
- Preoccupation with certain things: older children are more likely to be autistic, and even older adults are fascinated with online games, gaming cards, and more.
- The constant need to stick to a certain protein, for example, you find that the child insists on eating juice as soon as he wakes up daily, or eat desserts before eating, and so on.
- Actively, this involves shaking hands randomly, shaking the body.