A qualitative impairment in social interaction seen sometimes in the first months of life by a lack of contact with the parents, especially the mother. Many children with autism, the mother does not stretch out her arms to be lifted. They smile back if they are smiled at and take to the parents to not have adequate eye contact. Nevertheless, autistic children are just as strong an emotional bond with her mother and non-autistic children and have as much compassion as non-autistic children. This compares to a strong Object-oriented, often with a certain type of objects is limited. Your attention is directed to a few things, such as faucets, door handles, joints between slabs or graph paper, they attract like magic, so that everything else passes them. They often find objects in one other foreign object, such as the parts of a toy train by size and color, or their only interest in a toy car is to turn the wheels constantly.
‘symptoms of autistic disabilities.’
Autistic Disorder
Thursday, June 17th, 2010- The typical autism does not meet all diagnostic criteria of infantile autism and does not show until after the third year of life. As a subtype of autism but he is differential diagnosis for Asperger syndrome defined.
- The Asperger Syndrome (obsolete even autistic psychopathy and schizoid disorder of childhood), especially with a date of her age-appropriate language (according to the ICD-10 and DSM-IV criteria for a diagnosis – after a while Gillberg & Gillberg delayed language development a possible diagnostic criterion represents) and a correct from a formal point of view of language. People with Asperger syndrome are often clumsy motor.
To form the circle of pervasive developmental disorders according to classification of the diagnostic manuals ICD-10 are in addition to autistic disorder (in the strict sense) but also the
- Rett syndrome and Heller’s syndrome (disintegrative psychosis of childhood) that have similar symptoms, but differ in the course of autism. In Rett syndrome is now also a characteristic of this genetic alteration detected.
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Island of Genius
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
The interests of autistic people are usually limited to certain areas, but have some of them drawing on the area of their special interest extraordinary abilities, such as in mental arithmetic, in music or in the memory. This is called an “island of genius”; those who have are called savants. 50 percent of known Inselbegabten are autistic. You can not possibly wear alone, but may complete telephone books and encyclopedias to learn by heart, like Kim Peek, since the film “Rain Man” the best known of the Savants (but not autistic).
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Autism Symptoms & Complaints
Saturday, June 5th, 2010A small boy with autism and the exact line of toys, which he filed together. The symptoms and the individual forms of autism are varied, they misjudged by mild behavioral problems at the border of the low profile (such as “timidity”) to severe mental retardation range.
Allen autistic disabilities are impairments in social behavior in common: difficulty in speaking with others (for example due to monotonous prosody), been said to be interpreted correctly, use facial expressions and body language and understand.
Core symptoms associated with autistic disabilities is primarily the difficulty of communicating with other people (first and second diagnostic criterion). Alternatively, stereotyped or ritualization practices (third diagnostic criterion) explores all the core symptoms of autistic disabilities. Autistic people show fundamental differences from non-autistic people in the processing of sensory impressions and the way the discernment and intelligence. The differences in perception is explored as a core symptoms of autism.
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