Mayo Clinic Autism

The definition for Autism according to Mayo Clinic is a serious neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs a child’s ability to communicate and interact with others. This also includes restricted repetitive behaviors, interests and activates. These issues cause significant impairment in social occupational and other areas of functioning. According to the Mayo Clinic the symptoms for Autism cover a wide field. The reason for this how each child with Autism acts differently than another. This is divided into low functioning to high functioning autism. This is decide based on how severe the symptoms are for that child. Some of the symptoms Mayo Clinic list that fall under social communication are fails to respond to name, poor eye contact, doesn’t …show more content…
Mayo Clinic is saying several different genes are involved in Autism. They say this Rett syndrome or a fragile x chromosome. Mayo is saying that the environmental aspect is still being researched, but the genetic problems could lead to some environmental problems for the child. Mayo also wants to stress that there is no connection between Autism and vaccines. The CDC says that most scientist agree that genes are one of the risk factors. The CDC also says that children with a sibling that has autism has higher risk of having autism. The CDC also says that some drugs during pregnancy can increase risk for …show more content…
These two steps are developmental screening and comprehensive diagnostic evaluation. The developmental screening is a test to tell if the child is learning the basic skills when they should, and the doctor will ask question to the parents, or play with the child to see how they act. The comprehensive evaluation is done when the primary doctor refers the patient to a specialist like a developmental pediatrician, child neurologist, child psychologist or psychiatrist. This is done to insure that the diagnosis for the child is correct. The specialist has the child under go many test to see whether the child is autistic. These test are hearing, vision, genetic, neurological, and other medical tests that the specialist feels are needed to ensure the correct diagnosis. The Mayo Clinic says for the child to meet the criteria for autism the child has to have multiple situations with social and emotional, nonverbal communication behaviors, and developing relationships. The Mayo Clinic also states that the child must have two of the following restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior to qualify for the diagnosis. The behaviors that the child could have are odd or repetitive motor movements, insistence on sameness, interest in objects or topics that are abnormal, and extra sensitivity or a lack of sensitivity to sensory