Autism
Autism is one of the most common mental illnesses that affect children in their early childhood, especially before the age of three years, due to several factors and causes associated with each other. The risk of this disease is that parents do not pay attention to their child after a long time, , And is known as the disease as disorders and problems in the way of linguistic communication, physical, social, and autism, several causes and symptoms may appear on the child clearly.
Symptoms of autism
The symptoms of autism vary from person to person.
- Problems of language communication: Where the development of language in the child is very slow, and uses the words differently from the rest of the children, so associated with an unfamiliar and familiar, and communication is also through signals rather than words, and attention and focus for a short period of time unlike the child is not injured.
- Problems of social interaction: Where he spends less time playing with others, shows no interest in forming friendships, and responds to social signals as little as eyes or smiles.
- Sensory Problems: An infected child becomes more sensitive when touched or played with, or is less sensitive to pain, sight, or hearing, and his responses to physical sensations are abnormal and unusual.
- Problems playing: He has a lack of creative or automatic play, he does not seek to imitate the movements of others, and does not start to play games for himself.
- Behavior problems: The child may be more active and active than others, or may be less than normal movement with irregular fits of behavior such as biting or beating his head in the ocean without a reason, in addition to being associated with a particular person, thinking about a particular idea, In some cases, the child may exhibit aggressive, violent, and self-harming behavior.
Causes of Autism
The main and direct cause of the child’s autism is to parents whose feelings are cold in the way they deal with their children, who are indirectly oblivious to the child socially, and some new research and scientific studies confirm that the role of the parents lies in raising the child to habits that cause autism such as shyness, The social skills that a child can acquire, but it can be said that there is no obvious reason for autism, but some theories are due to problems during birth, genetic causes, environmental pollution, or infections.
Autism treatment
There is no specific treatment for this disease, there are many treatments that can be adopted at school or home with the help of a specialist doctor, and the most possible treatment of autism as follows:
- Behavioral therapy.
- Treatment by taking medications.
- Educational Educational Therapy.
- Treatment of language and pronunciation diseases.