Is there a rise in the rate of autism?

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Autism is a frustrating disorder mostly because there are no known causes or cures. Most other such diseases throw you a bone or something, but autism just draws a blank much of the time. Some even think that it has got to be environmental factors that bring it about, but there is not data to prove all that. And so we keep on guessing and testing and hoping that someday before all our kids are born that way, we will find a way to put the syndrome away.

About one of the commonest and most easily recognizable symptoms of autism is poor eye contact. I am yet to see an autistic person who would look you right in the eye for any reason. Even if you held them by the head and turned their faces around, you would still have trouble catching their eyes. As a matter of fact, an older child could already have responded at this time with screams and noises at the invasion. Watch out for such early signs in your kids, you wouldn t want to miss them and have to begin treatment of the condition later in life. Yes, the sooner you begin treating autism, the better the chances.

It is rare to have an autistic child imitate the sounds or gestures from their caregiver. It does not matter much that it is a parent or a stranger, they just appear to lock themselves up in a distant world. In certain severe cases, the child even appears to be unable to distinguish a parent from any other person. If you have an autistic child who recognizes and responds to you, you are on good ground.

You might have seen an autistic child holding their ears and yelling uncontrollably at the slightest provocation, as though they were in some untold pain. Sometimes you might not be able to hear the sound they seem to be yelling about, but if you were very attentive, you d know to look for it because it s certainly there. You see, autism makes it difficult for the child to speak or play, but overall, the child is not brain dead. You might want to learn to trust them so that they can reciprocate that trust.