Eps 1350: ASD

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The resolution, entitled "Comprehensive and coordinated efforts to address Autism Spectrum Disorder " is supported by more than 60 countries and calls for cooperation between member states and partner organizations to strengthen national capacities to combat ASD and other developmental disorders. Treating children is not a panacea, and no child will outgrow autism, but studies show that symptoms improve with early diagnosis and treatment. Children and adults with autism can benefit from behavioral interventions and therapies which provide new skills to address the core deficiencies of autism and reduce core symptoms.
Access to early, evidence-based psychosocial interventions can improve children with autism in communication and interact. Additional screening is required for children at high risk for ASD and developmental problems. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children ages 9, 18, 24, and 30 months be screened for autism during their visits at 18 and 24 months.
It is important to speak to your pediatrician as soon as possible if you think your child may have ASD or other developmental problems. Risk groups include children of family members with ASD, those with ASD behavior, older parents with certain genetic disorders, and those born with low birth weight. Diagnosing ASD in adults can be more difficult than in children.
Autism spectrum disorder refers to a wide variety of conditions that are characterized by challenging social skills, repetitive behavior and language and non-verbal communication. Instead of confining themselves to repetitive behaviors, interests, activities, or sensory problems, many with ASD have delayed or absent speech development, intellectual disability, poor motor coordination, and attention deficit disorder. People with autism may also have concomitant conditions such as epilepsy, depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and challenging behaviors such as sleep disorders or self-harm.
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a developmental disorder that causes significant social, communicative, and behavioral challenges. Learning, thinking and problem solving skills of people with ASD can represent a range of talents and challenges. Although they look and stand out from other people, they communicate, interact, behave and learn in a way that is different from most other people.
Children and adults with ASD may have at some point in their lives other types of mental health problems such as anxiety, ADHD, disruptive behavior and depression. Symptoms of ASD in older children and adolescents attending school can be detected by parents and teachers and evaluated by the school's special education team. Attitudes toward autism in older children or adolescents can manifest themselves when the child has difficulty adapting to new social situations or school environments, such as performing tasks, understanding and following instructions, forming friends or having age-appropriate interests.
In some people with autism, there may be other concomitant diseases in addition to the specific health needs associated with ASD. Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in children describes how severe their symptoms are and how much support they need. In normal children, there is a considerable level of misdiagnosis of autism; 18% to 37% of children diagnosed with ASD lose their diagnosis.
If a child is diagnosed with ASD, the next child who comes along has a 20% higher risk of developing autism than normal. If the first two children of a family are diagnosed with the disorder, the third child has a 32% higher risk of developing ASD. Some people have been concerned that ASD is connected to children's vaccinations but studies have no correlation between vaccinations receiving and the development of the disease.
Autism Spectrum Disorder is diagnosed in childhood, and many of the obvious signs are present in 2- and 3-year-old children, but the disorder develops in infancy and children with autism cease to acquire, lose, or acquire skills. When a child shows symptoms of ASD, parents often blame recent vaccinations. However, it is clear that parents do not and cannot cause autism in children.
For decades the CDC Network Autism and Developmental Disability Monitoring has estimated the number of children with ASD in the United States. The best estimate of the prevalence of ASD is 0.7% . ASD is thought to be a disorder of early brain development in which behavioral features of autism appear between the ages of 1 1 / 2 years and 3 years.
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a complex developmental disorder that involves ongoing challenges with social interaction, language and non-verbal communication, as well as limited, repetitive behaviors. Many children diagnosed with autism lead independent, productive and fulfilling lives. Learn more about the early signs of ASD and the diagnosis process in children and adults.
Autism can be diagnosed by observing how children speak and act compared to other children of the same age. For example, parents of babies diagnosed with autism may notice in the early years of life that their children are not interested in other people. For children under the age of two, it is important to closely monitor their social and communicative development.
Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist, was the first to describe ASD as a neurodevelopmental disorder in 1943, calling it "infantile autism" and rejecting the theory of the fridge mother. Most children with ASD have no increased risk of developing endocarditis. The US Preventive Services Task Force has not recommended universal early detection for young children with autism, owing to a lack of evidence of the benefits of this approach for parents and doctors concerned about ASD.
This plethora of diagnoses includes most children with autism and severe Asperger's syndrome, but not those with severe autistic disorder. Many children who do not meet the ASD diagnostic criteria also receive diagnoses of developmental disorders such as ADHD, frequent sensory disorders, anxiety, personality disorders and learning disabilities.