What is an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
Autism affects how a person socializes with others. It also affects how a person acts, communicates and thinks about things. Because there is a wide variation in how autism takes form, these different forms of autism are sometimes generally referred to as “Autism Spectrum Disorders”. Right now, nobody knows exactly what causes ASD. What we do know is that the way the brain develops and a person’s genes are likely involved. People who have ASD do not all act the same. The one thing that every person with ASD has in common is that they have difficulty understanding how to socialize with others. We are usually able to see some of the effects of ASD on a child by the age of three. Children do not outgrow ASD. They generally have a life-long developmental disability.
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