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Child autism is a complex disabilities of children. Professionals and parents are confused with children who suffer from this condition, as easily fail in any task of daily living but are able to solve a complicated puzzle for adults with ease.
"Until early 1960, very few people other than doctors, psychologists, special teachers, had heard talk about autistic children. But then even more so in recent years the problems of these children have been studied and discussed by professionals in the field, "said psychologist Germain Reyes.
In 1943 an American psychiatrist, Leo Kanner described the syndrome as "infantile autism" to explain a kind of 'childhood psychosis'. The word 'autism' comes from the Greek alphabet 'autos', meaning 'own'.
Factors relation to genetics, initially hailed as a recessive autosomal transmission mechanism (by family segregation analysis and findings in monozygotic twins concordant), but is currently thought that there are fewer than ten genes that act multiplicatively.
Regarding the neurobiological stated that abnormalities in neurotransmitters, specifically serotonin that is increased in children with autistic syndrome (hiperserotoninemia) alters brain function.
"In addition to these factors be altered, autistic children do not have a normal psychological development, ie their behavior is going to focus on yourself without caring or taking into account people around them, although often are the ability to perform a different type of activity to their own world. One characteristic of these small is that they always want to be alone, "said the psychologist.
Features
-Deficit in nonverbal behaviors.
-Alteration in facial expression. -Absence or lack of social or emotional reciprocity.
-language developmental delays.
-Repetition of words.
Parents have a disabled child, whatever their problems (physical or mental), it is very hard to accept and manage. Parents may feel guilty, anxious, confused, and hopeless about the future of the child. All these emotional reactions are valid and legitimate This is when the doctor comes to play an important role on the one hand provide emotional support and the other providing professional help to try to overcome the problem.
not forget parents of these children require much assistance, training strategies and resources for proper management of these small home, and that autism occurs disabilities throughout life, "he said Germain Reyes.
Currently using behavioral modification techniques, teaching social skills, social language training, operant conditioning, teaching specialist and a number of therapeutic strategies with the sole objective of minimizing the gaps and achieve a better social life.
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