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Testing for Autism

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What is autism? Autism is a complicated neurobehavioral state that involves impairments in human interaction and developmental communication and communication skills combined with hard, repetitive behaviors. Because of the variety of signs, this position is now termed as an autism spectrum disorder. ·          autistic disorder ·          pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) ·          Asperger syndrome Who is at risk for autism? Autism serves to move in families, and having one autistic child raises the risk of having another: Parents who have one autistic child have a 1 in 20 or 5% the chance of having another child with autism. "A younger sibling of a child with autism is 5 to 10 times more likely to have autism than a child in the general population. Like twins are also more liable to give autism ...

High-Functioning Autism

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What is high-functioning autism? Autism is a spectrum disease, meaning that there is a wide degree of change in the way it affects people. Every child on the autism spectrum has different abilities, signs, and challenges. Studying about the various autism spectrum diseases will help you fully understand your own child, take a grip on what all the various autism words suggest, and make it simpler to interact with the doctors, teachers, and therapists treating your child. Read on to learn more about high-functioning autism and the official levels of autism. Is it different from Asperger’ s syndrome? Several people with autism will get below-average on intelligence assessments, such as IQ. Those with Asperger’s, on the other hand, predominantly score on par with or greater than their rivals. Often they have superior IQ scores. Generally, people with Asperger do not suffer from language impairments or disabilities that often identify those with an autism spe...

How Can I find out what Caused My Child’s Autism?

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The cause of autism in a child still remains a mystery for all the parents as well as medical professionals and many children fall under the spectrum in spite of complete care during pregnancy and delivery.   As suggested by the recent research, parents say that autism spectrum disorder affects 1 in 45 children through ages 3 to 17.   This figure is considerably higher than the official government estimate of 1 in 68 Indian children with autism as suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is still not known with clarity which genes are responsible for autism spectrum disorder and heritability of autism is complex.   In rare cases, agents that cause birth defects are also suspected to be responsible for autism.   The needle of suspicion also points towards childhood immunizations but numerous epidemiological studies have revealed that there is no scientific evidence to prove any association between immunization and autism . ...