Children with autism show that autism is a developmental disorder caused by impaired brain function. It has a great influence on a person's vision, hearing, feeling and understanding. Autism mainly affects human communication. Let's take a look at the performance of autistic children.
Autistic children show 1 1, language disorder.
Language and communication disorders are important symptoms of autism, and they are also the main reasons for most children to see a doctor. Language and communication barriers can take many forms. Most autistic children have language retardation or disorder, and usually they still can't speak when they are two or three years old.
Or language retrogression occurs after normal language development, and there is expressive language before 2-3 years old, which gradually decreases or even completely loses with age, and is silent for life or uses limited language in rare cases. Their ability to feel and express language has some obstacles.
2. Social barriers
Patients cannot establish normal interpersonal relationships with others. I didn't make eye contact with others when I was a child, and my expression was very poor. I lack the expression or gesture of expecting parents and others to hug and caress, and I don't enjoy the happy expression when caressing. I even refused to hug and caress my parents and others.
I can't tell the relationship between relatives and friends, and I have the same attitude towards relatives and others. It is difficult to establish a normal attachment relationship with parents, and it is also difficult for patients to establish a normal partnership with children of the same age. For example, they spend more time alone in kindergarten and don't like to play with their peers;
Seeing some children playing games together with great interest, they are not interested in watching and have no desire to participate.
3. Narrow interests and rigid behavior patterns.
Patients are not interested in games and toys that normal children are keen on, but like to play with some non-toy items, such as a bottle cap or an electric fan that can last for dozens of minutes or even hours without getting bored.
I am not interested in the main features of toys, but I am very concerned about the non-main features: patients stubbornly demand to keep the routine of daily activities unchanged, such as going to bed, covering the quilt, and taking the same route when going out.
If these activities are stopped or behavior patterns are changed, patients will show obvious unhappiness and anxiety, and even appear rebellious behavior. Patients may have repetitive stiff movements, such as repeatedly clapping their hands, turning in circles, licking the wall with their tongue, stamping their feet, etc.
4. Mental retardation
Among autistic children, the intelligence level is very inconsistent, a few patients are within the normal range, and most patients show different degrees of mental retardation.
Studies at home and abroad show that about 50% of autistic children have moderate mental retardation (IQ less than 50), 25% have mild mental retardation (IQ between 50 and 69), 25% have normal intelligence (IQ greater than 70), and those with normal intelligence are called high-functioning autism.
Autistic children show 2 1 and abnormal reaction to the outside world.
Many parents with autism describe their children as "deaf" and "blind", so they have had the experience of taking their children to otolaryngology. They often behave as if nothing had happened, as if they were living in their own world forever, and what happened outside could not pollute them.
There are also many autistic children who react strongly to some small changes in daily life and small stimuli that ordinary people don't take for granted.
If you cover your ears with your hands, it seems that you can hear sounds that others can't feel. Some people are too excited or afraid of certain smells, colors, shapes and textures.
2. Communication barriers
Also known as language retardation. Many parents take their children to the hospital because their children are "a few years old and can't talk." The main manifestations are: unclear articulation, too fast speech speed, too high or too low tone; Say a single word instead of a complete sentence; Parody is obvious, such as reciting poems, advertising words, or repeating other people's questions.
Difficult to talk about, such as passive answer, irrelevant answer, repeated questions, single topic; Personal pronouns are often misused, and "I" and "you" are confused. Don't convey information or feelings with your eyes, your eyes are often erratic; I can't communicate with my mother or other people with gestures, expressions and body movements.
The difference between high-functioning autism and low-functioning autism
Among autistic children, there are low-functioning autistic children and high-functioning autistic children. Children with low-functioning autism are even more worrying.
Because such children have very low intelligence and poor motor function, for example, they can't take care of themselves, live, eat, dress and undress, sleep and so on.
Children with high-functioning autism often have some special functions. For example, some children have some special memory functions and will remember many complicated numbers. Today's children have some special computing functions; Other children have some special painting functions; Other children have musical functions.
What is autism?
Autism, also known as childhood autism, is a developmental disorder caused by congenital brain function damage. Since 2008, the United Nations has designated April 2 as World Autism Day, calling on everyone to pay attention to autism and autistic children, and strive to make these "star children" enter the world and stop being lonely.
Is the child autistic if he doesn't like to talk?
In view of all kinds of publicity, more and more parents know about "autism". Children who know "autism" don't like to talk, but it should be noted that not talking does not mean "autism". Psychologists say that a child who doesn't like to talk doesn't mean "autistic". Don't blindly label him "autistic".
Children talk early and late, some are one year old, some are two or three years old or even four or five years old.
There are several reasons: first, individual differences; Second, the child's early life defects make the communication function start slowly; Third, parents often force their children to speak, which causes children's rebellious psychology and psychological obstacles. Parents should know that not talking is only a manifestation of "autism" and not the same as "autism".
Studies have shown that autism is related to heredity.
The current research focus is that autism is related to genes. We found abnormal genes in autistic children, which means that their genes are different from those of normal people.
Although some children have not found abnormal genes, their gene expression may be problematic. This gene expression is related to the environment, because some environment has affected the gene expression of this child, which makes this child suffer from autism.
Therefore, most people in the medical field believe that autism is congenital, not acquired.
Do 5 things to prevent autism in children.
To prevent the occurrence of autism in children, we might as well start from the following aspects:
1, don't close your children too much in the small circle of blind learning.
With the modernization of urban life, many people have moved into high-rise buildings, and high-rise buildings with one household and one door are likely to create a closed environment for children. Therefore, children should be allowed or encouraged to walk down from tall buildings into the yard, play with neighbors or nearby children, and establish friendship.
2. Try to let children participate in group activities.
Group activities include games and homework invited by neighbors and children; Including cultural and sports activities organized by schools and classes; Including congratulating students on their birthdays, saying goodbye to teachers and so on. Cultivate children's character from group activities and experience friendship, wisdom and warmth from group activities.
3. Create conditions for children to make friends.
Children should not only be allowed to walk down the tall building and out of the house, but also be allowed to invite them into the house. Provide children with opportunities to make friends and teach them the art, methods and skills of making friends.
4. Pay attention to the cultivation of emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence is the comprehensive ability of social adaptation. It is not enough for children to get good grades in school, but also to know how to accept others and let others accept themselves. This is also the basic meaning of love. While cultivating children's good moral character, we should teach them to form good temperament and emotion.
5. Cultivate children's self-reliance and avoid parents doing everything.
Let children learn to do their own things, and deliberately let them encounter difficulties and taste the hardships to hone their willpower.
Performance of children with autism 3 1. Abnormal eye contact.
Autistic children will show a lack or reduction of visual fixation on meaningful social stimuli, especially on human eyes. When communicating with people, he often lowers his head and shows timid behavior.
Second, I feel depressed.
If the child has autism since childhood, he will not laugh loudly and express his emotions when he is 6 months old; Will not share sounds and facial expressions with others for 9 months; 10 month, there will be no reaction when I hear my name. In addition, children will show low mood and even grumpy mood.
Third, sensory perception is abnormal.
When parents find that their children use things improperly, they need to consider that their children may have autism. For example, children often like to arrange toys in a row, rotate things or have no interest in things. These are all manifestations of abnormal perception.
Fourth, the request will not be expressed
Autistic children can't express their demands correctly because they can't make proper body movements. When parents find that their children are about one year old, they will not nod or shake their heads through physical movements. They need to take their children to the hospital for examination to determine whether they have autism.
Fifth, language delay.
Most autistic children have language delay. If parents find that their children can't speak normally at the age of one, they need to consider autism.
Autism in children is a common phenomenon, which is mainly related to parents' education and environment. When parents find that their children have the above-mentioned abnormal performance, they need to seek medical examination in time to judge whether they have autism and actively treat them so as not to affect their normal life in the future. In addition, we should communicate with children more in daily life to prevent autism.
First, when the baby stared at his parents or caregivers, he didn't show a happy reaction.
Second, after being born for two months, I still can't laugh, and I have a poor reaction to things around me.
Children around three to five months old can't babble.
Fourth, I didn't recognize my parents' voice, and my parents didn't respond when they called his name.
5. Don't make eye contact with others.
It took six or nine months to learn to babble.
Seven, rarely cooperate with gestures before speaking, such as waving a small hand.
Eight, take a thing and repeat an action repeatedly.
Nine, 16 months old can't say a word.
At the age of ten, I still can't babble and don't make any communication gestures.
Eleven or two years old can't speak two words.
Twelve, even if you can speak, you lack language skills.
Thirteen, do not like to imitate the actions of adults, monotonous language, often say repetitive language, rigid language or self-made words.
The common causes and influencing factors of childhood autism include heredity, brain organic diseases and social psychological factors. Because of the early onset age and special symptoms of childhood autism, there is no effective treatment, and there are no completely cured cases so far.
At present, there is a unified view that the key lies in early detection and early intervention, and through behavioral intervention and special education and training, they can improve their self-care ability, cognitive ability, social communication ability and ability to adapt to society. Effective clinical intervention methods include behavioral intervention, structured education and language training.