"Teacher, can you tell me what symptoms children with autism have?"
"Teacher, I am worried that our baby is autistic, but the information on the Internet is unclear and I am not sure..."
As the end of the year approaches, many parents have broken away from the tense atmosphere of the epidemic and begun to pay attention to issues that they have not paid attention to before, such as Are some of their children's abnormal manifestations delayed in language development or autism??
Just in time, at a time when everyone is paying more attention to autism, our organization will answer some of the little knowledge for you, especially "The performance of autistic children" that parents are concerned about.
1. Social communication disorder
Social communication behavior is often considered to be one of the core behaviors in the growth process of children .
As children are born and grow up, their social interaction behaviors show the characteristics of extending from the family to the external environment. The most prominent feature is that the interaction between parents and children has expanded to interactions with relatives, friends, partners, and work.
However, autistic children have impairments and delays in their intellectual and mental development, so social communication disorders begin to occur frequently in more than 90% of autistic children.
The main manifestations of are:
. Unable to establish normal interpersonal relationships with people, such as being unable to establish normal relationships with parents, relatives and friends, and unclear understanding of the identity of parents;
. Likes to play alone or in a daze, and often turns a deaf ear to instructions. For example, in most cases, parents will not respond when called by name. Respond immediately, or even not respond;
. Lack of communication skills in family life, such as being unable or unable to make eye contact with others;
. Lack of attachment to parents, rarely actively seeking help Parents' care or comfort does not produce an emotional response when parents hug him;
5. He cannot express his needs with language and body language. For example, when he needs something, he will not point his finger to identify it, but will hold the adult's hand to point out what he wants.
2. Communication barriers
Language communication behavior is one of the seven driving forces for children's intellectual growth and is also an important factor in children's development.
In articles related to language development, we mentioned what language communication means to children. It means that children have the ability to interact with the "world" and have the "intrinsic motivation" to grow on their own. In short, the communicative behavior of language means that children are experiencing their own "golden period" .
From a philosophical point of view, communication is the behavior of two or more specific people. This behavior is repeatable, growable and changeable. Because communication behavior is an interaction that exists in the material world, this interaction can promote the development of self consciousness - interaction brings external matter, that is, new knowledge .
Why many pediatricians and educationists recommend that parents chat more with their children is because this exchange of materials can promote children's growth, growth in all senses.
And what if there are obstacles in communication behavior, or there are some factors that hinder the formation of communication behavior? The result is that children fall behind in all aspects. Autistic children happen to "have" the conditions for the formation of obstacles, so they have the following symptoms: : :
. Language development is delayed. Some children have normal language development in the early stage, and then their language regresses and their vocabulary decreases sharply;
. Repeated, stereotyped language or talking to themselves;
. Vocabulary content is monotonous, and personal pronouns are often not used correctly.
3. Narrow interests and stereotyped behaviors
It is often said that "interest is the best teacher for children". This is because curiosity will promote the development of children's cerebral cortex , which is conducive to the cooperation between their left and right brains and ensures that children's left and right brains can jointly participate in perception, analysis and memory.
And multi-level and complex behaviors , such as using hands and feet together, body coordination with language and words, and other complex behaviors can promote the improvement of children's logic, interaction, and thinking.
However, autism will affect children's development of rich interests and narrow their complex behaviors. So, we see children like :
. Show extraordinary interest in some special objects or activities, and therefore show repetitive and stereotyped behaviors or actions, such as spinning in circles and arranging toys;
. Show quite intimate behavior towards some strange objects, such as clothes. The threads must always be wrapped around the fingers and cannot be loosened;
. Have an incomprehensible dependence and sense of security on specific items. For example, when someone approaches or touches a bottle cap, wooden stick, etc., they will react quickly and violently, and even attack the other person with the object;
. Show more stereotyped behaviors, such as walking in a straight line or at a right angle, eating in a certain position, etc.
Professional reminders
Autistic children do not have just one or two symptoms, but have multiple abnormal symptoms at the same time . For example, they resist sounds and brightness that are too high or too low, and may also like to hold on to desk lamps; they may not have language skills, or they may like to sit alone.
In actual contact, we found that some parents like to hold on to a certain point, thinking that this point is autism or not autism, , and then start to "argue" and insist on proving that they are right.
I hope everyone will understand this one truth . The assessment of autism/autism often requires comprehensive evaluation by three or more (tertiary A) doctors before it can be determined. What you have to do is to take your children for evaluation in time after discovering abnormalities, instead of focusing on one point.
