Understanding Autism
1. What is autism?
Autism is a complex developmental disorder whose symptoms must have appeared before the age of 3 years. This pervasive neurological disorders occur at a neurobiological aspects of the brain and affects the process of child development. Due to this disorder the child can not automatically learn to interact and communicate with the surrounding environment, so that he seems to live in his own world.
2. What are the symptoms?
Symptoms of autistic individuals that should appear (one or all of them) is a qualitative interaction disorders, communication disorders are not sought to overcome the non-verbal communication skills, and repetitive behavior is limited to the pattern of interest, repetitive behavior and activity.
3. How to diagnose autism?
Although no one specific test available to diagnose developmental disorders, through observation of specific criteria can be established a consensus diagnosis.
4. Who is authorized to make a diagnosis that a person is autistic?
Whether a person can be declared as individual autistic or not, is determined through the stages of in-depth interviews with people who will understand parenting and child development in the first three years of life, observation and interaction with the child.
Doctors and psychologists usually are professions that serve the cutting edge handling autistic individuals. Other professions such as teachers, therapists, and the brothers, as well as his own parents and members of the general public plays an important role in providing data about the child's condition in detail everyday.
Doctors and psychologists usually are professions that serve the cutting edge handling autistic individuals. Other professions such as teachers, therapists, and the brothers, as well as his own parents and members of the general public plays an important role in providing data about the child's condition in detail everyday.
5. What causes autism?
Until now, what is the cause of autism spectrum disorders has yet to be determined. Superpowers who can do the research states that the cause of this developmental disorder is an interaction between genetic factors and a variety of negative exposure gained from the environment.
6. Any treatment available to autistic individuals?
Various therapies proven to help improve the quality of life of individuals with autism. Handling is already available in Indonesia include behavioral therapy, speech therapy, communication therapy, occupational therapy, sensory integration therapy, special education, medication and biomedical treatment, special diets. Other treatment such as auditory integration, hyperbaric oxygen, certain supplements, to therapy with dolphins is also already available in several major cities.
7. What are the chances of education for them?
Individuals with autism are no different from other non-autistic individuals. That is, the intelligence of every individual is very varied .. Because of the level of intelligence of each individual is different, the intensity of autistic symptoms that exist in every individual is not the same, then the chances of education for autistic individuals varies from 'education could reach as high as high as possible', to 'can not be educated but can only be trained alone '.
Each individual is different.
8. What is the prognosis for individuals with autism?
Prognosis and the final result depends on many aspects, among others: the number and intensity of symptoms, age detection, the type and intensity of treatment, and the role of parents in handling generalization into everyday life.
The final result of handling, can not be predicted because it is the interaction of many factors. Handling is a long struggle and hard work uninterrupted before delivering effective results efficiently.
9. Is it possible for individuals with autism to "heal"?
Because autism is a developmental disorder and not a disease, the use of the term "cured" becomes less precise. More precise is that autistic individuals can be managed in order to mingle with other individuals in the wider community as much as possible, and in the end can adapt to various situations that bring other people in general.
10. Does the use of the term 'autism' is right?
The term 'patient' to describe each child, clearly unwise. These children are not suffering.
More wise when we refer to 'individual differences' every child and ultimately on the basis of seeing the unique features of each child is then referred to them as 'autistic individuals'.
11. In my family no one is autistic, so we should do what?
Knowing and understanding the developmental disorder characteristic of these will greatly help individuals with autism and their families in adapting to the general public environment.
12. What are families with autistic children expect from society and the environment?
Families with autistic individuals since the child was a toddler has experienced many difficulties in daily life, adjustment, facing the demands of society. The high cost of handling and difficulty in securing educational opportunities is also the pressure for parents.
The family is expecting the environment and community can be more empathetic towards their struggle to get a better life for their children, understand their difficulties, so do not make fun of autistic individuals behavior or blame the parents when autistic individuals are not supposed to behave.
The family is expecting the environment and community can be more empathetic towards their struggle to get a better life for their children, understand their difficulties, so do not make fun of autistic individuals behavior or blame the parents when autistic individuals are not supposed to behave.
Everyone was never asked to be born, let alone born as autistic individuals.
All parents expect their children born perfect, but when the son / her i was not perfect, parents also can not do other than continue with life as possible.
Families with autistic individuals in need of understanding and opportunity, not pity or aspersion.
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