06 Sep Children’s Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) – Signs & Symptoms
Children’s Autism is a very complex disorder involving a series of neurodevelopmental disorders characterised by repetitive behaviours, social withdrawal and communication deficits.
These children have significant impairments in social interaction, social skills and communication. There are two subtypes of autism: (a) Regressive autism; this is where a child develops normally but between the ages of 12 months to 3 years old 30 starts to loose speech and social skills. (b) Infantile autism; where a child doesn’t reach their developmental milestones.
Signs & symptoms of Childhood Autism include:
- ✅ Appears not to hear when spoken to
- ✅ Has trouble expressing feelings
- ✅ Doesn’t know how to connect with others
- ✅ Doesn’t want to be touched, held or cuddled
- ✅ Repeats the same words over and over
- ✅ Responds to questions by repeating it rather than answering it
- ✅ Has difficulty communicating needs
- ✅ Avoids eye contact
- ✅ Makes few gestures when talking e.g. pointing
- ✅ Hand flapping
- ✅ Rocking backwards and forwards
- ✅ Flicking the light switch on and off
- ✅ Head banging
- ✅ Tapping ears
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