Children's autism

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  • What is autism?
  • How autism is manifested?
  • How to help an autistic baby?


    Children's autismWhat is autism?

    In 1912, the Swiss Psychiatrist Eygen Blair (Eugean Bleuler) first applied the term «autism» In one of the English medical journals. Then under autism, he meant difficulties arising from schizophrenia patients when communicating with other people. In the form in which we understand it now, autism was defined later, in 1943, Dr. Leo Kanner, who studied the behavior of eleven kids with similar symptoms.

    Such children do not seek to know the new, get acquainted, share their emotions. Often they have problems in communicating and social adaptation, nothing interests them. A child who has symptoms similar to those listed above may be painful autism. This problem has several names, including Asperger Syndrome, Rett Syndrome. But each of these disorders is classified as a nervous disorder of the autistic spectrum and differs only by some symptoms.


    How autism is manifested?

    Autism, developing at the child gradually, begins to appear at the age of one and a half years and is fully formed to three years. Autism has a wide range of symptoms, and in different children, it is manifested in an unequal. This condition affects gestures, movements, speech, reaction. Not all children, patients with autistic, have some physical manifestations of this. Most often, autism is manifested in changes in behavior, such as the following:

    • Refusal of tactile contact with parents.
    • Lack of speech to three years.
    • The child prefers to be alone than with anyone.
    • The child refuses to contact with the world or does not show interest in this.
    • He has no or weakly developed skills of non-verbal communication. Kid does not want to watch your eyes.
    • Toddler gestures strange and rather nervous than expressing something.
    • The child says, but monotonously, as if reassigned learned text. Many children with autism repeat the words of other people on the echo manner.
    • Unusual sensory reactions (voice, smell, taste, touch).
    • The child demonstrates the same behavior and a way to communicate with others prefers to repeat some one action.
    • Autical children do not play with other kids and prefer to always expose their toys in the same order, and always depending on the color.
    • They are not afraid of the surrounding, but also do not want to change anything in their lives. They are so absorbed in their daily classes that changes seem to be something unnatural.
    • In some kids, autism is manifested in sleep disorders.
    • Autism can be both soft and in acute form. Many children have similar autism symptoms appear after the start of study at school, but this is normal: the baby gets used to studying, new people, school atmosphere.


      How to help an autistic baby?

      Understand the child and work with it is difficult for any parent. Children, patients with autism, require even more attention and care, so, raising a child-out, it is necessary to comply with some recommendations.

      • Cut the child to believe that he is a member of the family, but not the one who pays more attention than the rest. If you get too much attention to such a child, he may not understand you and feel uncomfortable.
      • Allow a little person yourself to make a schedule of walks, feedings, sleep, games. Protected by the parents of the day of the day, correct from the point of view of physiology, may adversely affect the psyche of the baby and strengthen the rejection in behavior.
      • Show your approval every time the child successfully completed the task. Most children-outs do not remember what happened yesterday, and yesterday's praise may seem to them unfortunately.
      • Remember that incorrect behavior quickly goes into habit, so fight it immediately and encourage any adaptation to change, even insignificant. If the child will not feel supported on your part, it will clocked even more and will avoid contact.
      • Give the child a chance to understand a new schedule and take it, otherwise the baby is just lost. Self-esteem increases in children, if every new task will be first completed with them.
      • Give a child to school specializing in learning children with similar problems. The school should provide children with due attention and psychological help.
      • Never show the child of your discontent, because the most important thing in returning such a person to normal life and communication is to make him believe that this world for him, and not against.

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