Autism In Children: A Case Study
Did you know that health officials are trying to implement a plan that will recommend all physicians look for signs of autism in children 18 to 24 months? This can be a great benefit for those families that have children with this disorder. Children with autism can show certain symptoms of the disorder very early in life. There are many different levels to this disorder that sometimes can be confused with slow development, but in fact are due to the disorder of autism. Parents and pediatricians need to be aware of the signs and symptoms of autism in order to get the earliest diagnosis possible. Children diagnosed with autism early in life, often have a better chance of coping with their disability, then those children diagnosed
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Autism has been around for a very long time but was not officially a diagnosis until the turn to the 20th century. There is evidence that suggests that autism has been around for thousands of years, but the people of that time associated disabilities with signs of evil or unholy beings, and many of the children were abandoned and left to die. These happened primarily because people did not understand the disorder, and were more apt to think that there was something religiously wrong with these small children so they were deemed evil. Later, in the 1820s there were schools for children with disabilities, but most focused on blind and deaf children. By the turn of the 20th century the word autism was used but was often associated with schizophrenia. By the middle of the century a doctor named Leo Kanner was the first physician to use the term autism as it known today (Encyclopedia of Global Health, Autism, pg 9). When autism was first brought to the attention of doctors, it was thought to be caused by the parent’s lack of love and neglect. These parents were often told by the doctors to seek professional help for their parenting skills, so most parents did not have their children checked out by physicians for fear that they …show more content…
Since children each have different personalities and abilities, they can all develop at different ages, so misdiagnosis is possible, and is often missed due to the range of development stages. Doctors and specialists are still learning about this disorder, but there is a list of symptoms that help in determining a correct diagnosis of autism. Some of these symptoms include: lack of speech before age 2, hand flapping, body rocking, facial grimaces, and grunting or growling. One third of autistic children will never develop oral speech, while others begin speaking in preschool years. Autistic children are often thought to be deaf, because they are unusually quiet and don’t develop age appropriate speech. Some may throw tantrums and fits, because of the lack of ability to communicate their feelings and wants. Autism has other spectrums of the disorder which include aspergers. Aspergers is a form or autism that affects the motor skills and its prevalence is 1 in 300 children (Encyclopedia of Global Health, Autism, pg. 6). Although aspergers is a form or autism, children with aspergers develop normally with no language delays or any other kind of communication issues. They do, however, show signs of motor skill difficulties, often clumsy and not coordinated. A person with aspergers will tend to talk a lot, especially
Autism has been around for a very long time but was not officially a diagnosis until the turn to the 20th century. There is evidence that suggests that autism has been around for thousands of years, but the people of that time associated disabilities with signs of evil or unholy beings, and many of the children were abandoned and left to die. These happened primarily because people did not understand the disorder, and were more apt to think that there was something religiously wrong with these small children so they were deemed evil. Later, in the 1820s there were schools for children with disabilities, but most focused on blind and deaf children. By the turn of the 20th century the word autism was used but was often associated with schizophrenia. By the middle of the century a doctor named Leo Kanner was the first physician to use the term autism as it known today (Encyclopedia of Global Health, Autism, pg 9). When autism was first brought to the attention of doctors, it was thought to be caused by the parent’s lack of love and neglect. These parents were often told by the doctors to seek professional help for their parenting skills, so most parents did not have their children checked out by physicians for fear that they …show more content…
Since children each have different personalities and abilities, they can all develop at different ages, so misdiagnosis is possible, and is often missed due to the range of development stages. Doctors and specialists are still learning about this disorder, but there is a list of symptoms that help in determining a correct diagnosis of autism. Some of these symptoms include: lack of speech before age 2, hand flapping, body rocking, facial grimaces, and grunting or growling. One third of autistic children will never develop oral speech, while others begin speaking in preschool years. Autistic children are often thought to be deaf, because they are unusually quiet and don’t develop age appropriate speech. Some may throw tantrums and fits, because of the lack of ability to communicate their feelings and wants. Autism has other spectrums of the disorder which include aspergers. Aspergers is a form or autism that affects the motor skills and its prevalence is 1 in 300 children (Encyclopedia of Global Health, Autism, pg. 6). Although aspergers is a form or autism, children with aspergers develop normally with no language delays or any other kind of communication issues. They do, however, show signs of motor skill difficulties, often clumsy and not coordinated. A person with aspergers will tend to talk a lot, especially