Autism And Babies

What are the basics of autism?

There is usually nothing about how a person with the condition looks that sets them apart from other people. But people affected may communicate, interact, behave, and learn in ways that are different from most people. And here children with the disease may have problems with social, emotional, and communication skills where they might repeat certain behaviors and might not want to change in their daily activities. Autism spectrum disorders begin during early childhood and last throughout a person's life so these people also have different ways of learning, paying attention, or reacting to things.

Symptoms:

According to The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, a child or baby with the condition might have the following symptoms:

• They do not play but "pretend" to play games (pretend to "feed" a doll)

• Not point at objects to show interest.

• They do not look at objects when another person points at them

• Have trouble relating to others.

• Usually they avoid eye contact and want to be alone.

• They have trouble of understanding other people's feelings or even talking about their own feelings

• They prefer not to be held or cuddled or might cuddle only when they want to.

• They sometimes appear to be unaware when other people talk to them but respond to other sounds.

• They are very interested in people, but not know how to talk, play, or relate to them in short communication problem.

• They repeat words or phrases in place of normal language.

• They go on repeating actions over and over again.

• Babies have even unusual reactions to the way things smell, taste, look, feel, or sound

• They lose skills they once had for example they forget the word which they had used before.

Autism is nothing but a developmental disorder affecting children from birth or the early months of life. It results, in the delay of the normal patterns of development1and these occur in three areas of behaviour: • Interest and activities.

• Communication and language.