April is autism awareness month and those who has never experienced this type situation should really get more information and get educated on this before having children.
Autism is a disease that is like a large gigantic puzzle and the question is why is this occurring.Thousands of children each and every year has been diagnosed with disease.
Parents ask why is this happening to my precious baby?

What is Autism?
Autism is a severe developmental disorder that effects the way a child sees and interacts with the rest of the world. It limits their ability to interact with others socially in fact many autism patients suffers greatly about this and avoids human contact.Males are more effected more than females. Some believe there are many reasons why children get this disease
and there are research and studies being performed to come up with answers.

Some of the warning signals of AUTISM is:
1. PROBLEMS WITH COMMUNICATING
2. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
3.SUSTAINED ODD PLAY
4. LITTLE OR NO EYE CONTACT
5. INSISTENCE ON SAMENESS
6. NOTICEABLE PHYSICAL OVER ACTIVITY OR EXTREME UNDER ACTIVITY
7. TANTRUMS- DISPLAYS EXTREME DISTRESS FOR NO APPARENT REASONS
8. ABNORMAL RESPONSES TO SENSES- TOUCH, SMELL, SIGHT, HEARING,BALANCE,
REACTION TO PAIN.
9. INAPPROPRIATE LAUGHING AND GIGGLING
10. ENCHILADA- REPEATING OF WORDS AND PHRASES IN PLACE OF NORMAL
LANGUAGES
11.ATTACHMENTS TO OBJECTS- DOESN'T SEEK CUDDLING.

Diagnosis is hard to determine when a child is young because this
is developing stages of speech and ect.When a doctor feels like it
is necessary testing will be done .Some of these testing can be
good determining the reasons for this and the quicker they can determine
what is going on, the better for the patient.A diagnosis of autistic
disorders is made when an individual displays six to twelve symptoms
listed from the three major areas which is called Social Pervasive
Developmental Disorders.

There are many diseases that have the same symptoms that autism has and
autism is not just one symptom or disease ,it's several combined.
Here are some testing that can be performed:

1.Hearing-
Various testing such as audio gram and typanogram can indicate weather
a child has a hearing problem.Audiologists or hearing specialists
have methods of testing of an individual by measuring responses such as
turning of the head blinking,or staring when a certain sound is presented.

2. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM-
EEG measures brain waves

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