What is autism?

Autism is a syndrome, a disorder invasive, abutting (engl.) (deep) development, which has different clinical aspects. Autism is not a branch, a manifestation of schizophrenia.

Disorders are biochemical origin and cause a brain dysfunction, disruption of the acquisition / processing incoming messages to the brain, leading to autistic isolation. Statistically, 10% of cases of autism are caused by genetic transmission.

Onset of autism:

• Since the birth are signs of abnormal development;
• In most cases, development is normal until around the age of 2 years - 2 years and half after appearing autism (to lose all "acquisitions" until then - the language, communication, etc..).

Usually, the diagnosis should not be set earlier than 3 years because it is risky, can be confused with mental delay.

Statistics show that the proportion is one girl 4 guys who are affected by autism. Girls in contrast, is specific to Rett syndrome, which is classified abutting disorders, invasive depth of development.

Myths about Autism

• Autism occurs in families with parents "cold"!
• Autism occurs in industrialized countries, with companies "cold" in terms of affection!
• Autism occurs in certain social groups, for example, but only intellectuals and workers!
• Autism is not caused by malfunctions in the brain!
• The child manifested hostility to the talk!
• Autism is closed to the inner world which is populated by frightening fantasies!
• Autism is caused by a deep depression and is correlated with an above-average endowment!

What, how to manifest?

Abnormalities in the relationship with objects and people

• child with autism rarely established eye contact (or no) with objects and / or individuals;
• fixatiile specific to children with autism;
• child with autism may be anxious, restless, nervous, irritating when requested by others for not understanding what to do, react because it has special difficulties reception / processing of information;
• eye contact is not used when he wants to attract attention or when he should be careful, according to the specific child with autism, eye contact can be made after the age of 8-12 months or even after 10 years (!);
• child with autism is unable to put in another place;
• children with autism do not understand the value of feelings, but have their own feelings to express but can not due to brain disease, not some introspective;
• not using interactive game, not imitate;
• children with autism have stereotypes (predictable mechanism) in which they cause stimulation that I can control;
• attach themselves to unusual objects;
• not own initiative, but some of them can be taught to initiate their own;
• to changes in the environment, some of them are nervous, anxious.

Sensory - motricitatea

• all sensory functions may be affected in children with autism;
• grind, they cause visual stimuli (motion machine on the floor for a long time, TV commercials, videos, music, shiny things-flame bulb, foil, etc..) balances his body;
• depending on the child, spontaneous motor activity may be reduced or increased;
• abnormalities may have food (food eaten sour-lemon or chili-onion; preferred food of a certain color - white only, do not like red foods, etc.., undoing sandwich bread and eat separately from content, undoing biscuits with cream and eat only cream them, not eating cooked food);
• some children with autism are bothered by noise insignificant, while, a loud noise not affect;
• some children with autism are distracted by a beam of light entering the window.

Communication and language

• children with autism are verbal and nonverbal;
• children with autism who have language problems were problems in the communication and intercommunication;
• people with autism have double disability: autism and mental delays (not factor in the diagnosis of autism);
• autistic appearance is often meaningless, but should not be generalized;
• interpret what is happening around them unduly;
• when there are language, tone, intensity, his intonation is abnormal, but in varying degrees from one another;
• reacts Pavlovian: Players II-person talking about himself ( "eat" instead of "eat", "do the toilet" instead of "I want the toilet", "are you thirsty" instead of "me - thirsty ", etc..).

Emotions

• children with autism have emotions, but do not know it and show them;
• may cry or laugh bizarre;
• I can not complain when they crash.

Intellectual functions

• statistically, 80% of autistic children have mild to severe mental delay;
• can excel in terms of performance at one space, and video memory (learning books from a particular publisher, calendars, reference data in sports.);
• attention can be improved by involvement in actions that make them happy.