facts about autistic children

If your child has been diagnosed with autism, you are not alone. Nearly one in one hundred and ten children is diagnosed with autism. That makes autism more common than juvenile diabetes, pediatric AIDS, and childhood cancers combined. Each year, this rate increases between 10% and 17%.

Boys are more likely than girls to have autism. However, there is no known cause at this time, but there are some facts that are known. No two children have the same symptoms. There is no set pattern to explain why some children have it and others do not. Possibilities for the cause are thought to be time of exposure, the environment in which the child lives, and genetics.

Autism symptoms show up in three areas; social interaction, language and behavior. When a child has a severe case of autism, she is unable to interact or communicate with others.

Social skills symptoms:

The child may have poor eye contact, does not respond to his name when called, cannot seem to hear you speak to him, does not want to be hugged or hugged, does not respond to the feelings of others, and prefers to play. only.

Language symptoms:

The child does not speak after two years, shows signs of developmental delay after thirty months, stops speaking and loses the speech that he has already learned, does not make any eye contact when making a request, when he speaks it is with a abdominal tone – no elevation in your voice, does not start a conversation and cannot sustain it, can report certain words or phrases but cannot use them in a sentence.

Behavioral symptoms:

Performs repetitive movements such as rocking back and forth, develops a certain routine or ritual, gets upset if there is a change in his routine, constantly moves, fascinated by the parts of an object and sensitive to light and sound.

Watch for signs as your baby develops. If you notice anything different, or if you notice that they started to develop normally but now don’t seem to be progressing, call your doctor. It may not be anything to worry about, but you won’t know until you call. Since there are no definitive signs of autism, doctors learn about it through a series of tests that are both physical and developmental. Once you get the results, you and your doctor can review the results. After your child has been diagnosed with autism, you will need to learn how you can better manage it. There are two types of autism low-functioning and high-functioning. If a child is diagnosed as low functioning, they will require support and assistance from now on. However, if a child is a high achiever, he will be able to live on his own and take care of himself.

As you start reading books, newspapers, or online articles, you’ll see the rise in the number of autistic children and how their families turned things around and made the most of their child’s diagnoses. Autism is something that will affect everyone’s life because it is growing very quickly. Until there is a reason for it or until there is a cure, if a child is diagnosed, the parents can support their child and they also need to get support.