Help your child get rid of Autism

Kids

oi-Staff

By Staff

Monday, December 15, 2008, 1:58

"I met a 2 year old child in the church yesterday. She was clinging to her mother's arms and sucking her thumb. Her red dress, fairly complexioned skin, innocent face, with neatly combed brown hair would attract any stranger, to come and pamper her for few minutes. However the child, did not respond to any of my funny tactics. She just laid there numb, looking at my moving lips. When my mother tried to carry her, she clinged hard but did not speak a word. The child's mom mom said "she doesn't like to mingle... she hardly speaks a word. I am worried, whether she will adjust to school surrounding after few years"

Such a behaviour does worry parents. However this is a common development disorder, called autism faced by young kids, which can be eradicated for life if treated well. A recent research states that one in 500 children are likely to have autism. Today many kids aren't getting treatment until the age of three. Diagnosing an infant with autism at 6 months or a year maybe even one day in the delivery room could mean the difference between baby steps and giant leaps. Here is an article about autism that talks about, its early symptoms and different ways the parents can help to overcome it.

Autism is a complex developmental condition that appears during the first three years of life. It is one of the most severe forms of pervasive development disorder (PDD) which broadly means, problems with language, difficulty in relating to other people (including parents), and marked routines associated with poor imagination.

Early symptoms

Avoidance of eye contact is a common characteristic of children with autism.

Affected kids focus more on mouths than eyes

They may ignore even very loud noises that would be expected to startle most ordinary children. This may be to do with a generalized lack of interest in their surroundings