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71 Selhurst Road, SE25 5QB England Phone: (00 44) 020 8664 8993 Email: mail@ezesplace.co.uk |
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Many autistic infants are different from birth. Two common characteristics they may exhibit include arching their back away from their caregivers to avoid physical contact and failing to anticipate being picked up ( i.e.; becoming limp) As infants they are often described as either passive or overly agitated babies. During infancy, many begin to rock and/or bang their heads against the crib. Autism is three times more likely to affect males than females. This gender difference is mot unique to autism since many developmental disabilities have a greater male to female ratio. Approximately one - half of autistic children develop normally until somewhere between 18 months and three years of age; then autistic symptoms begin to appear. During childhood, autistic children may fall behind their same aged peers in the areas of communication, social skills and cognition. In addition dysfunctional behaviours may start to appear, such as self - stimulatory behaviours (i.e., repetitive, non- goal directed behaviour, such as rocking, hand flapping), self - injury, for example, head banging and hand biting. They also are victim to sleeping and eating problems, poor eye contact, insensitivity to pain, hypo/hyper-activity, and attention deficit. One characteristic which is common in autism is the individual's insistence on routine which may be due to their inability to understand and cope with news situations. Many autistic people have sensory impairments in one or more of their senses making it difficult for them to process incoming sensory information properly. Some autistic children have savant skills considered remarkable by most standards. These are often special in nature such as a special talent in music and art. There is no adjective that can be used to describe every type of person with autism because there are many forms of this disorder, some people are anti-social, some social and others asocial. Some are aggressive towards themselves and/or aggressive towards others. Most have little or no language, some repeat words or phrases and others may have normal language skills. There are no physiological tests to detect autism diagnosis is based on behaviour. Many autistic children have a narrow or focused attention span, focussing on one, and often irrelevant aspect of an object, for example colour. Since attention is the first stage in processing information, failure to attend to the relevant aspects of an object or person may limit one's ability to learn about objects and people in ones environment. |