Correctly understand autism and autism

Mondo Psychological Updated on 2024-02-19

Correctly understand autism and autism

Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) is a general term for a heterogeneous group of diseases represented by autism, including: autism, Asperger's syndrome, atypical autism, RETT syndrome, disintegrating psychotic disorder in children (Heler's syndrome), and other unclassified pervasive developmental disorders.

Autism is characterized by social communication disorders, verbal and nonverbal communication disorders, narrow interests and stereotyped behaviors. It is a significant impairment of children's physical and mental health and is now a major cause of disability in children. With the development of medical technology, there have been many updates to the definition of autism, ** and other concepts in medicine. Now let's have a correct understanding of autism, especially as parents, it is very necessary to know how to conduct autism self-examination for children!

1. What is autism?

Autism is a developmental disorder of the brain characterized by impaired social interaction, impaired communication, and repetitive and limited interest behaviors. It usually begins before the age of 3, 2 3 children gradually develop symptoms of autism after birth, about 1 3 children experience 1 2 years of normal development and regression, after the age of 3 the symptoms are very obvious, the vast majority of children need long-term training and special education support.

2. Are autism and autism the same thing?

Yes, the professional name of autism is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), autism and autism are two translations of English autism, and "autism" is mainly used by medical and special education circles in Chinese mainland. "Autism" is mainly used by Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries where Chinese is spoken (generally ** will be mixed).

3. Is autism a mental illness?

Autism is not a mental illness, but most children with autism have psychological problems, such as cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems. Autism is also not a withdrawn personality. In 2006, our country classified autism as a mental disability.

4. What is the prevalence of autism?

The prevalence of ASD in our country is 09%~1.57% between. It is estimated that there are about 4 million 10 million ASD patients in China, and the number of children affected by ASD is 1 million 3 million.

5. Why does autism occur?

Autism is still unknown. It is generally accepted that the interaction between genetic mutations and adverse environment, especially denovomutations, may be the main cause of autism, but the specific causative factors and mechanisms are unknown. Older parents, infections during pregnancy, poor medications or exposure to chemicals during the first trimester may increase the risk of autism.

6. Is autism caused by incompetent parents? It is important to emphasize here that in the past, there was a belief that improper parenting methods by adults could lead to autism in children, especially the mothers of children. There is a saying called the "refrigerator mother theory", which means that a mother's cold parenting method can cause a child to suffer from autism, however, this notion has been overturned through scientific evidence-based practice, and it is not the improper parenting style that causes autism. However, for families with children with autism, parents need to be more patient and loving.

As a parent, how can you detect that your child may have autism as early as possible? Here are 5 important early signs of autism that parents should keep in mind:

1) Not (less) seeing: refers to abnormal eye contact, and children with ASD begin to show lack or reduction of fixation to meaningful social stimuli and reduced fixation to people, especially human eyes, in the early stage. Some children with ASD may be able to converse, but face-to-face fixation is not normal.

2) No (less) response: The baby is deaf to the call of the parents, and the name is not sensitive. You can't use your eyes to focus with others on other objects or events that your finger is pointing at.

3) Not (less) refers to: lack of appropriate body movements, unable to make requests for things of interest. Children with ASD may present as early as 12 months of age, with decreased frequency of use of limb movements, such as not nodding to indicate need, shaking head to indicate no, purposeful pointing, and gestures.

4) Lack of speech: Most children with ASD have language delays, and parents are often most concerned about language problems. Although language delay is not necessary for the diagnosis of ASD, and other developmental and behavioral disorders often present with language delay, ASD should also be considered in children with language delay.

5) Inappropriate: refers to inappropriate use of objects and related perceptual abnormalities: Children with ASD may develop inappropriate use of objects from 12 months of age, including rotation, arrangement, and continuous visual exploration of objects. For example, line up the cars in a row, rotate objects and keep watching, etc. Speech inappropriateness is manifested as a regression of speech after the appearance of normal language, difficulty in understanding, repetition, and meaningless language.

As a parent, you need to know that these are just to tell you that your child may have autism, if the child meets these early signs, we should take the child to a professional doctor as soon as possible to give the child a comprehensive assessment, and then start relevant interventions as soon as possible**, such as microbiota transplantation**Autism is the latest **technology.

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