Children are of elementary school age and still don't like to talk?
Many parents are afraid that their children will be labeled as "autistic" and have been hoping that their babies are just stunted. Stunting, parents should not be unfamiliar with this word, especially if the child can not be diagnosed with autism, the doctor will basically make that distinction.
But confusing the two is a terrible thing. Misdiagnosing autism as growth retardation, or misdiagnosing growth retardation as autism, can have a profound impact on interfering with treatment.
One of the characteristics of children with autism is that they have more severe language communication disorders, but not all children with language communication disorders are all autistic. In fact, there is a fundamental difference between autism and language caches.
First, in the definition
Language growth retardation: it means that the children's language expression ability or language understanding ability caused by various reasons lags significantly behind all the normal growth and development levels of children of the same age, and the language growth and development of such children are not consistent with the level of specific age.
Autism: Children's language barrier depends on their inability to grasp the dialogue standards of social development and daily life and their own differences with others, can not be expressed according to the conversation situation, lack of the ability to apply their own language to special situations, and are very prone to repetitive language.
Second, in terms of etiology
Language growth and development disorders: the causes are common in intellectual disabilities, hearing impairment, dysarthria organ diseases, central system diseases, and poor natural language environment.
Autism: Language impairment in children is likely to have the following dimensions: head injury or brain hypoplasia, lack of meta-performance, unusual social experience and lack of internal equipment to learn and train languages.
Third, in the symptoms
Language growth retardation: children usually have no obstacles to getting along, they can play games with their friends, they can communicate with good friends according to body language, there are only obstacles in language expression, and most of their learning and training ability is also no problem, they can teach, listen to stories, and have a certain imagination, compared with other children of the same age, intelligence is routine.
Autism: Children have obstacles in all aspects, no concept of getting along and the ability to get along, and personal behavior is abnormal, the mentality is very easy to get excited, and this kind of child communication usually has no language and all the replies on the human body, in the middle of this autistic child, some also have language decline.
In general, children with language retardation are only lagging behind their peers at the language level, and there is no problem with intelligence and getting along, but autistic children are likely to have obstacles in all aspects, and their abilities and cognition are different from those of their peers.