How Do You Recognize Signs Of Autistic Children?
• Recognize the signs and symptoms that may indicate autism: • Child is not smiling by six months of age • Child does not point, babble, “mirror” your expression or develop gestures commonly used by other infants his/her age. • Child responds in unusual or extreme ways toward touch, sound, and other sensory stimulation • Child tends to speak quite late (or not at all) compared to other children and avoids direct eye contact • Child has had any regression or loss of development in any major area (speech, motor control) such as saying “Dada” with some frequency at 9 months old for a week, then never doing it again. • Child suffering from autism tends to engage in repetitive and/or excessive, hyperactive behaviors and activities such as arm- or hand- flapping, walking on tip-toes, rubbing feet together, spinning, biting (themselves or others), rocking, waving. • As child grows, he/she does not engage with others socially and may have inappropriate aggressive outbursts or what appears to b
