What could be more terrible to realize that your own child differs from others and is physically or mentally disable. One of the biggest sorrow and tragedy for the whole family is diagnosis of autism for their child. The trouble is really serious; most parents before direct facing it never heard any information about the symptoms and complications connected with the disease. The researches show that autism is usually diagnosed till the age of three sometimes till eighteen months.
Unfortunately, autism causes are still under the debates. According to autism description the disease has a big spectrum of variants of disorders but all of them are concerned in problems with communication abilities and skills, social mechanisms, stereotyped models of behavior. The disaster was determined at the same time by two scientists. It took place in
The practice shows that the problem can be determined even at the age of one year. The appearance can serve as some warning signs that can raise an alert. Certainly, parents are the first to face the problem observing some disorders in behavior. It can happen that the child differs from others from the birth being inactive to other people and keeping attention to one object for a long time or the disease can take other running: while playing the child can suddenly become self-abusive and closed to everyone. But unfortunately not all parents realize all significance of the signs especially in the beginning of problem because of lack of certain knowledge.
The disease levels can be ranged from the severest variant known as autistic disorder to the mild one Asperger syndrome. The other form of strong variant is Rett syndrome. It is recommended to parents that just noticed some disorders to acquainting with the list of possible indicators of autism: the child is not babbling, not making any gestures that have meaning (by one year); the child does not say some words by one year and four month; it is a problem for the child to combine certain words by the age of two years; does not react on the name; loses some skills gained before. The additional indicators can be absence or not active eye contact, no play with the toys, no smiling, attachment to one toy.
The first common questions of parents after facing the trouble are possible ways of treatment and aid in the case of autism disease. One of the decisions provided by the present societies is special public schools where the child can get the professional aid of speech therapist, school nurse, social workers, specially trained psychologist and occupational therapist. The child's educational program will be discussed in details with the parents. If the child is under the age of three it is possible to arrange the special education courses. It is strongly recommended to get a consultation of the local doctor as there is no common treatment to solve this difficult disease.