Know and understand the autistic child special

Perhaps not all people could instantly recognize an autistic child. They are indeed at a glance and then look the same just with children most. After a few moments of observed that looks there is one of two special things commonly done by autistic children.

You just imagine there is a 4 year old toddlers with an adorable face. At first glance there is nothing odd of his performance. But there is something that makes this different toddler.

Than play with peers, he preferred the twirling the wheel toy cars repeatedly, again and again. He could not be separated from those toys even though there are so many other toys around it. You tried to call out his name, but he is not ignoring you. You try to attract his attention with him talking and smiling at him, but he did not reply to a smile.

What comes to mind about Your Toddler?

Yes, you might think that his attitude, his name is also a small child. Yes, like a bit-rather expensive sale when meeting with strangers, or people who are not regular with him everyday.

Or, you may suspect that the child gets less care of his parents. Accustomed himself, then he does not care about the environment. Maybe he never was taught to proprieties.

Yes, maybe that's what crossed your mind, right?

May indeed these things are the cause of the toddler does not respond to you. But there are also other possibilities; a toddler that is autistic children.

Indeed, physically, an autistic child looks fine. Because of this, children with autism are often misunderstood by people in the vicinity. Anyone think of them as bad, stupid, or strange. Sadder yet, because it is considered stupid, autistic children thus suffered discrimination.

In fact they are the privileged kids who need our help. Therefore, let's try learn more about autistic children.

Understanding Autism

Autism is a spectrum of developmental disorders on the following aspects:

• Communication Disorders, including difficulty using and understanding language, including repeating certain words or sentences or had limitations in speech.

• social Disturbances, including difficulty to interact and make friends with others, difficulty in understanding people's facial expressions, and the difficulty in doing the eye contact.

• Nuisance behavior, e.g. doing the same motion over and over again or repeat the sound or certain words repeatedly.

According to WHO, statistics show that there is a 1 in 160 children suffered autism.

not a small statistical figures, doesn't it? However, we need to know that autism is a spectrum, meaning that every child with autism may have symptoms and severity vary, ranging from mild to very severe.

There is an autistic child who is a lifelong need help another person to perform everyday activities, but some are able to live independently. There's even an autistic child who has the intelligence level above the average, or having talent in the arts, mathematics, science, and so on.

The symptoms are so mild, as if there is nothing wrong to many who are not aware that the person is suffering from autism.

Autism themselves sometimes appear along with other conditions, such as epilepsy, depression, anxiety, disorders of attention and hyperactivity. Therefore, why should we recognize and deal with this disorder through a comprehensive approach.

A child who shows symptoms of autism will not necessarily be expressed as autistic children without going through a series of tests and diagnosis.

The Cause Of Autism

To this day it remains unclear what was the cause of autism. Several factors related to the incidence of autism is estimated to be against this, including genetic and environmental.

Some studies mention that genetic material derived from parents may be at risk of the occurrence of autism in children. Then the risks are affected by the genetic factors can potentially greater if driven the existence of environmental factors. Some of the factors that affect them are premature births (before 35 weeks) or exposure to alcohol and certain treatments (e.g. epilepsy treatment).

Please note, however, that autism itself has been proven not to be caused by a wrong or parenting due to the vaccine.

So if there are issues of vaccine could cause autism, it is not true.

Detection Of Autistic Children

Generally the symptoms of autistic children will be seen in 5 years early in his life, and continues to mature.

The diagnosis of autism itself can be done by looking at the child development and behavior, and can be enforced since the age of 2 years by professional health care personnel.

Will need to be done early screening checks on the child, if he has detected a high risk.

Such as what's included high risk it? To those who:

• have a family history with autism

• Have the behaviour that lead to autism

• a history of premature birth

• low birth weight.

Early detection and treatment with immediately is essential to alleviate the symptoms of autism and to improve the quality of life of children with autism and their families.

Well, if you have a son or a nephew that was still a toddler, and you want to know if he has a tendency of autism, you can notice some symptoms.

Some of the symptoms that could indicate the possibility of autism:

• does not respond when her name was called at the age of 12 months

• don't want to designate specific objects or toys to show his fascination at age 14 months

• do not want to do a game that is interaction (e.g. play pretend) at the age of 18 months.

In fact there are many other symptoms that could lead to autism. For more details, you should simply consult with a trusted health care personnel.

When children aged 18 months and 24 months, it's good if Autism screening examination performed by a trained health workers because the sooner autism is diagnosed, then will be even greater opportunities for us to try to improve the quality of life the sufferer.

Autism Therapy

Until today there is no medicine that can cure autism, but there are various therapies that can be done to alleviate the symptoms.

Terapinya alone can vary depending on the symptoms and severity of the disorder. The therapy can be administered usually in the form of:

• behavioural therapy. In General, most autistic children find it hard to express his needs. They often feel frustrated, when those around him could not understand what they want. Autistic children also often hypersensitive towards touch, light, and sound.

• speech therapy. One of the most common symptoms that occur in autistic child is experiencing difficulty in speaking or communicating with other people. Language and speech therapy provided by a trained therapist will greatly help the autistic child.

• occupational therapy, therapy that is being done to improve fine motor autistic children.

• other psychosocial Therapy, which proved to be able to reduce social and communication disorders, and to improve the quality of life of sufferers. Autistic children generally experience the significant weakness in the ability of speech and language so that it can use media images to assist in communication.

Although there are many therapies that can be done, but the quality of life of autistic children will not be increased without the support of the family.

There are some things that should be done by the family for the sake of improvement of quality of life of autistic children, among them:

• do not force the child to do something, if he did not want to do it.

• as we know, autistic children have difficulties to express your desires and needs. Therefore, patience in dealing with it is important.

• keep away from things that smelled of violent or abusive behaviour.

• create a regular schedule of daily activities, so he practiced to move from one activity to another are more structured.

• Keep give it time for himself.

• Minimize noise in educating autistic children

• can use simple language, slowly and clearly and give a pause between words so that the autistic child better understand

• Add a certain movement on the word conveyed so that children understand

With the support and attention, autistic children are expected to be able to achieve its potential optimally possible to be able to face the outside world.