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The neighbor has a child, more than 3 years old, can not speak, the child's aunt is very worried, so she asked me: Is my child suffering from autism?
As we all know, the most representative feature of children's autism is "not fond of talking", so 3-year-old children can not speak, is it language development delay, or the manifestation of autism?
There is still a difference between language delay ≠ autism
Children with language delays
Children with language retardation have uneven development in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the four basic classifications of language. Some children express their language very well, but their comprehension ability is not good; some children are good at language expression, but when they encounter writing, they are difficult, belonging to the type of "can tell stories and cannot write articles"...
Children with autism
Autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social communication disorders, narrow interests, and repetitive stereotyped behaviors, is not being able to speak is just a symptom of autism.
Those children with autism not only have language development disorders, but also communication barriers such as eye contact, inability to accurately express their needs, and repetitive stereotypes. In addition to language development, other aspects are also seriously lagging behind.
Cognitive skills are not good, interpersonal communication is not good, unwilling to communicate with people, do not play with other children, emotional control is not good, casually throw things around, prefer to live in their own world.
Therefore, for whether the child suffers from autism, it is necessary to go to the hospital to ask a professional doctor for a diagnosis, and it cannot be judged by whether the baby can speak alone.
From the following aspects, the difference between language development delay and autism is judged in detail
If parents still can't clearly distinguish whether the current problem with their children is language delay or autism, they may wish to judge from the following aspects:
1. Use your index finger to point to food: Parents can guide their children to point to the toys and snacks they want, or planes pointing to the sky when they go out, etc. If children do not use their index fingers to point to objects before the age of 2, then it can be regarded as one of the suspected symptoms of autism.
2. Observe the child's ability to understand the reception of information by speech or other communication methods: Those children with simple language development delays, although the language ability to express information is limited, the ability to understand information is basically normal.
3. The way children play with toys and treat objects: Autistic babies usually show a very common "infatuation" way of treating their favorite toys, and wherever they go, they will earn their favorite small toys, which is the stereotypical behavior of typical autistic children.
4. Imitation: Children with language delays do not prevent them from imitating movements when interacting with others, such as imitating others playing ball and imitating other people's stacks, but children with autism usually do not imitate themselves;
It is worth noting that even if the child has suspected autism symptoms in the above aspects, it does not mean that the child is autistic, parents need to identify the child's developmental delay as soon as possible, regardless of whether it will be diagnosed with autism in the future, timely intervention is extremely critical.
For children with language delay and autism, different situations need to be treated differently
Although language delay and autism look alike, there is still a big difference between the two, so parents should make a distinction and take different countermeasures for different situations.
Children with language delays should shape a good language environment
Studies have shown that those children who speak late are mostly caused by the lack of language environment, especially those families whose parents go to work and whose children let the babysitter take them, and the study shows that the earlier they talk to their children, the more benign stimuli the children's brains receive.
Therefore, parents must create a good language environment for their children, and after returning home from work, they must communicate more with their children in language and encourage children to express their ideas.
Children with autism cannot be cured, but they can intervene
Compared with language delay, the incidence of autism is low, so many parents will mistakenly think that their children are "noble late", thus missing the best treatment time.
For the treatment of autism, with the current medical level, there is still no way to completely cure it, and can only delay and enhance the child's ability.
Children with language delays often find it difficult to find partners of the same age because of language disorders, and more are only the care and enlightenment from their elders. This mode of getting along will make children fall into a difficult situation of communication.
Over time, children will be more and more reluctant to take the initiative to communicate with outsiders, so that children can easily fall into a state of autism, it can be said that the end of language development delay is autism.
For autistic children, what will parents do, do they want to give up?
For parents with autistic children at home, the bitterness in it is definitely not something that ordinary people can understand, the hospital institutions they have been to, the ways they have tried, the money spent, if it is not really empathetic, I am afraid it is difficult to understand the taste. Will parents of children with autism give up treatment for their children because of the pressure of life?
There is an autistic child, the mood of the parents and family can be imagined, but the truth still has to be faced. Presumably, the vast majority of parents, in such a situation, will choose treatment, and will also give positive cooperation, all said: "poor world parents heart", in the face of poor children, the most important thing is the companionship of parents.
Tuanzi Mama wants to say:
No matter what kind of children, as long as they choose to come into this world and join our lives, they deserve to be treated kindly, and you can never imagine how remarkable it is for a person's life to be saved.
If the child is successfully treated, the parents will not only gain a child, but also the knowledge they have learned and their own satisfaction in the whole treatment process.