Autism is a developmental disorder, which is diagnosed based on a group of behavioral symptoms leading to difficulty in communicating and forming relationships. Some of those symptoms include social difficulties, fixated interests, obsessive or repetitive actions and unusually blunt reactions to sensory stimulation. The major symptoms involve no eye contact, no attention, no understanding and frequent tantrums. Some factors that might cause autism in children can be accessibility to toxic substances, or an older parental age. Signs of autism usually appear during the first three years of childhood and continue throughout life. Although there is no cure, appropriate management may help with healthy development and reduce undesirable behaviors.
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Because it differs widely in its severity and symptoms, autism may go unrecognized, especially in mildly affected people or in those with many handicaps. Researchers and therapists have developed several sets of diagnostic requirements for autism. Some frequently used criteria include the following: Absence or weakness of imaginative and social play, weakened ability to make friends with peers, weakened ability to initiate or sustain a conversation with others stereotyped, repetitive, or unusual use of language, restricted patterns of interests that are abnormal in strength or focus, unable to move to particular routines or rituals, and constant thoughts with parts of …show more content…
had early medical records diagnosing them with autism and they now had no criteria of autism. A study led by Catherine Lord that tracked 85 children from the age of two for two decades found that about nine percent of them were no longer autistic. However, it isn’t known as to why subgroups of those children who were autistic through development lost all symptoms of autism. Scientists suspect that some children recover from autism and others do not because it is possible that autism can be a range of conditions that have “different genetic and environmental etiologies,” or a set of causes that happen to produce similar symptoms. This theory would explain why some children progress after receiving treatment and others do not. Lord’s study also shows a correlation in the role of I.Q. in children with autism. Children with a nonverbal I.Q. of less than 70 at age two all remained autistic, those children with a nonverbal I.Q. of at least 70 at age two eventually became
Because it differs widely in its severity and symptoms, autism may go unrecognized, especially in mildly affected people or in those with many handicaps. Researchers and therapists have developed several sets of diagnostic requirements for autism. Some frequently used criteria include the following: Absence or weakness of imaginative and social play, weakened ability to make friends with peers, weakened ability to initiate or sustain a conversation with others stereotyped, repetitive, or unusual use of language, restricted patterns of interests that are abnormal in strength or focus, unable to move to particular routines or rituals, and constant thoughts with parts of …show more content…
had early medical records diagnosing them with autism and they now had no criteria of autism. A study led by Catherine Lord that tracked 85 children from the age of two for two decades found that about nine percent of them were no longer autistic. However, it isn’t known as to why subgroups of those children who were autistic through development lost all symptoms of autism. Scientists suspect that some children recover from autism and others do not because it is possible that autism can be a range of conditions that have “different genetic and environmental etiologies,” or a set of causes that happen to produce similar symptoms. This theory would explain why some children progress after receiving treatment and others do not. Lord’s study also shows a correlation in the role of I.Q. in children with autism. Children with a nonverbal I.Q. of less than 70 at age two all remained autistic, those children with a nonverbal I.Q. of at least 70 at age two eventually became