Autism
Treatment of Autism
Treatment
As in all of the chronically ill, has to have a treatment of symptoms and complications of child and family support that allows the best possible quality of life of both. Specific aspects of treatment of the symptoms are:
1) Behavior Management: is to establish an effective training of behaviors, applying behavioral psychology. The main objective is to encourage desirable behavior and limit undesirable. Parents and educators should be trained to do.
2) Focus education: promoting the development of communicative language and social skills for what the schools to come the child should be provided with adequate equipment and staff, the long-term goal is for the child to function the way more effective and comfortable as possible in the least restrictive environment. Read the rest of this entry »
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Diagnosis of Autism
First you need to have a presumptive diagnosis to be done by the doctor, based on information received from our parents and their own observation and then will be sent to specific units or psychiatrist with expertise in autism, which made the final diagnosis.
It will be important to know if the child is really autistic or have autism or mental retardation without a hearing (not heard) or other disorders of language and learning.
Diagnosis should be made within 3 years and this has proved useful in the questionnaire CHAT (Checklist for Autism in Toddlers) that is designed for use at 18 months, at which most parents are already concerned with language delay or social development of their child.
Currently, most children are diagnosed by 6 years. Read the rest of this entry »
Symptoms of Autism
Describe the symptoms in all three aspects of behavioral deterioration that we raised in the definition:
- Qualitative impairment in social interaction: the young autistic children do not respond are not interested in their surroundings, parents from early observed a “lack of eye contact,” do not respond with looks, lack of interest in held in arms or rigidity to be held.
This lack of interest is generally maintained throughout his life, though decreasing as they progress in their maturation and may establish parallel play and identify the friends. Read the rest of this entry »
Autism
In 1943, Leo Kanner (psychiatrist) first described a puzzling phenomenon of the alteration of human development: autism. Identified this disorder in 11 children was struck by “his isolation, his rigid adherence to rituals, their opposition to the changes closed and strange peculiarities of their language.”
There is now a new conception of biological basis of autism as a disability neurological maturational a substrate with a genetic component.
It is, strictly speaking, a set of symptoms and may be associated with neurobiological disorders and different intellectual levels varied. Read the rest of this entry »