Autism Spectrum disorder is neurodevelopmental and characterized by persistent difficulties in two areas:
Social Communication & Interaction: People with autism can have difficulties with non-verbal communication and may be avoidant of, or limit eye contact, and have difficulty interpreting body language, facial expressions and gestures. An autistic person often exhibits challenges in social-emotional reciprocity, by finding it harder in understanding others feelings or thoughts, have difficulty with sharing an interest, and/or may have an inability to initiate or maintain conversations. Further to this one with autism can have difficulty developing and maintaining relationships and lack understanding of social rules or adjusting behavior to different social contexts.
Restrictive and Repetitive Patterns of Behavior, Interests or Activities: Individuals with autism exhibit repetitive motor movements in varying degrees, using objects or with speech. These behaviors might include hand flapping, body rocking, spinning, lining up toys or other items and /or repeating words or phrases (ecolalia)! Autism can induce an absolute insistence on maintaining inflexible adherence to routines and one can display extreme distress at small changes, add to this a marked difficulty with transitions, or rigid thinking patterns. With autism one can present with highly fixated interests, abnormal in intensity or focus, a hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input leading to the potential for unusual reactions to how things sound, smell, taste look or feel. In particular autism might create an extreme sensitivity to light or sound!
Spectrum refers to the severity and combination of the attributes of autism that vary from person to person. The disorder can co-occur with anxiety, ADHD, epilepsy and intellectual or language impairment. This condition usually presents in childhood though can become more easily recognized later in life due to to the young individuals ability to be adept at masking or copying non-autistic behaviors.
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Autism Spectrum disorder is neurodevelopmental and characterized by persistent difficulties in two areas:
Social Communication & Interaction: People with autism can have difficulties with non-verbal communication and may be avoidant of, or limit eye contact, and have difficulty interpreting body language, facial expressions and gestures. An autistic person often exhibits challenges in social-emotional reciprocity, by finding it harder in understanding others feelings or thoughts, have difficulty with sharing an interest, and/or may have an inability to initiate or maintain conversations. Further to this one with autism can have difficulty developing and maintaining relationships and lack understanding of social rules or adjusting behavior to different social contexts.
Restrictive and Repetitive Patterns of Behavior, Interests or Activities: Individuals with autism exhibit repetitive motor movements in varying degrees, using objects or with speech. These behaviors might include hand flapping, body rocking, spinning, lining up toys or other items and /or repeating words or phrases (ecolalia)! Autism can induce an absolute insistence on maintaining inflexible adherence to routines and one can display extreme distress at small changes, add to this a marked difficulty with transitions, or rigid thinking patterns. With autism one can present with highly fixated interests, abnormal in intensity or focus, a hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input leading to the potential for unusual reactions to how things sound, smell, taste look or feel. In particular autism might create an extreme sensitivity to light or sound!
Spectrum refers to the severity and combination of the attributes of autism that vary from person to person. The disorder can co-occur with anxiety, ADHD, epilepsy and intellectual or language impairment. This condition usually presents in childhood though can become more easily recognized later in life due to to the young individuals ability to be adept at masking or copying non-autistic behaviors.
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