With an additional 25,000 new cases of autism getting reported every year, the number of autism affected children is also increasing and a study says that 1 in every 150 children is affected by autism.
Further, autism while affecting children, doesn’t restrict with any particular ethnic group and is known to affect all people from all walks of life. Today due to increase in the autism cases, there is an urgent need for autism awareness also for better management of autism affects children and grown-ups.
Persons affected by autism will have impaired speech and other social interaction and might behave abnormally or might show inappropriate responses. In case of severity many persons will have severe impairment in their speech and will not be able to take care of themselves.
For the purpose of inculcating autism awareness amongst the general public the National Autism Society in the year 1972 declared the month of April every year as National Autism Awareness month.
Diagnosing Autism in its Early Stage
Efforts to increase autism awareness make pediatricians and the parents alike in understanding or finding the otherwise elusive symptoms in small children. During the month of April every year, there will be television shows and information in magazines about autism news and the matter will be discussed thread bare to inculcate a better understanding of symptoms of autism in children.
One can find the earlier symptoms of autism even in an age of three and hence it is very difficult to diagnose the symptoms of autism, as almost all the symptoms are of behavioural in nature. Further, autism being considered as a spectrum disorder, the symptoms also vary in the scale of severity and with other people.
What could be done towards Treating Autism
Best results can be achieved if the autism is diagnosed earlier and treatments are started without any delay. Autism awareness plays a very vital role in early diagnosis and helps people and family members to coordinate in treatment schedules and for better understanding the cause and effect of autism. Spread of the awareness can also help the society at large in devising meaningful and helpful communities for dealing with autism.
The interests or the behaviour meted out by the society or the community towards the autism-affected persons also plays an effective role during the treatment. Persons who come under high spectrum autism, despite their efficiency in doing all the schoolwork, get bullied due to their odd behaviour.
Increasing autism awareness can make such situation less burdensome for the autistic persons as the persons around them understand about the situation and help and take the strange behaviours as normal.
Sorting out the Issues
Any increase in autism awareness will certainly broaden the scope for studying or including all the related issues. An autism-affected person will exhibit various disorders covering the entire body and are prone to many other related problems.
Besides the conspicuous impairment in speech and other behavioural maladies, researches are being conducted to study the issues relating to dietary habits, role of any toxic materials like mercury, and other environmental issues so as to understand better about autism. Only a better autism awareness can bring in a better support and in understanding autism to its fullest possible level.
There are many agencies other than the National Autism Society that help in inculcating autism awareness among the general public. One such agency is the Center for Disease Control, Department of Education, and it should be your endeavour to increase your knowledge base about autism and create greater autism awareness.
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