Archive for September, 2007
When it comes to the disorders of neurological category, then in this vast expanse of world there are only three category of people namely medical professionals, the afflicted and the relatives of the afflicted; all the rest of the people come under the ignorant category.
Most of the general public still remain ignorant and uninterested about this type of disease or condition related to behavioural impairment.
Due to the indifference implicitly shown by the general public towards the autism is assuming significant proportions and hence the condition of autism started receiving insignificant understanding.
The Bias and Autism Behavior
The main reason for general public to misunderstand autism behavior lies in their disbelief regarding the very existence of any such disease or condition. The prejudiced thought or belief make them to take the impairment as crazy and they fail or rather refuse to take into account the possibility of existence of such neurological disorder.
The popular belief or rather disbelief makes people to just brush off any symptoms of neurological disorders as “crazy behaviour” and even make them to suggest ways and means to mend the behaviour.
Most of the autism symptoms exhibited by children are in fact looked down as irresponsible acts of escapism and in misunderstanding the symptoms parents are in no way different from the general public.
In earlier days when people find behavioural changes or any malady in social interaction among their child, then they will be subjected to punishments such as locking them in cages or making them to stand in hot sun or cold rain. They believed that such punishments could correct the intentional and the forced behaviour problems of the child.
The situation even made the federal government to bring in a law to desist parents and general public from inciting such punishments on their wards or younger children. In those days the so-called therapy for autism behavior normally comprises of torture related treatments and methods for correcting the behavioural patterns.
Harmless Impairment
Most of the autism behaviors assume a social awkwardness form where as the true social awkwardness is the real absence or lack of a specific social skill. The key factor of an autism behavior is that it is looked at as a voluntary behaviour rather than an involuntary response. The actual autism behavior is in fact a mental condition and should never be treated as lack of social skills.
Knowing more about autism behavior and autism behavioural therapy are not easy and the issues are to be discussed in length to get a better understanding so as to know well the domain of the above-mentioned three groups.
[tags]Autism, Autism Behavior[/tags]
Many numbers of children get afflicted by autism through out the world without any respite and today the number of afflicted people is six times more than the figure that were available in early 80s.
Scientists or researchers are not sure why there is an increasing trend in autism affliction among children, but the consoling news could be that many people have started learning as how to manage the disorder and to live with the condition.
Understanding Autism
Autism is a neurological disorder that afflicts younger children well before their age of three years. If not diagnosed and appropriate treatment is not given the disorder will result in impairment of the child’s social skills and communication abilities.
Autistic children retract from the outside world and start living in solitude and finally may reach a stage where in you may not be able to bring them to the real world at all.
When it comes to autism, there are two types and they are mild autism and the complex autism. Both the types were studied in great detail but the research is yet to give us a perfect cure for autism disorder.
However, the researches and studies have made us to understand autism better and given us various treatment methods and therapies for management of autism. In fact, many of such therapies have resulted in containing the effects of disorder and in few cases it has even reversed the condition to normal.
It will be a difficult task to diagnose mild autism in children and if the condition is left untreated, then the disorder may develop into a fully blown complex autistic disorder. On the other hand is easy to treat mild autism if diagnosed well in time and you can gift the child who has mild autism back its original normal life once again.
Learning to Understand Various Symptoms of Autism
Today’s scientific diagnostic tools have made us to understand the otherwise peculiar or erratic symptoms of autism easier. The only catch is that you can do it only when the children reach a stage where you can make them to communicate and for any given normal circumstances you will be able to diagnose when the children are in their 13 to 18 months old in age. Let us now see few of the conspicuous symptoms that manifest in both mild autism and complex autism:
Afflicted child will be indifferent to pain or shows no external reactions
Absence of smiling or laughter and the child will not express any happy disposition
Absence of any reaction to your scolding or appreciation or even to physical punishments such as slapping, etc
Avoid or indifferent to physical contacts and comforting gestures such as touching and hugging
Show great affinity to numbers and are even adept in solving mathematical problems; and interested in repetitive movements
Affinity towards spinning motion
Exhibit intolerance to loud noises
Impaired communications abilities
Likes games that are very monotonous to other normal children
Shows great interests towards unusual objects
Often retracts from outer world and get into solitude
All the above-mentioned traits are seen both in mild autism and complex autism. Majority of the symptoms varies in degree from person to person and can never be the same for any two afflicted persons.
In complex autism, the symptoms will be more conspicuous than in mild autism. However, the therapies or the treatment methods would be the same in both the cases. One need enormous care and patience in treating autistic children and the results will not be forthcoming in a short time.
[tags]Autism, Autism Symptoms[/tags]
