Showing posts with label autism treatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autism treatment. Show all posts

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Varities of autism

Autism is a really variable disease.Do you know like many things you cannot put all autistic people into one category? There are many autism types.

Some people are totally dysfunctional, some others are mentally handicapped. And in some autism types patients show mild symptoms and responds to treatment. It is a practice that autism types are broadly divided into two. This is not accepted by professionals. This is done on the basis of IQ levels.

  • Low functional autism (LFA) refers to individuals with IQ<80.
  • High functional autism (HFA) refers to individuals with IQ>80.

But it is better to define LFA and HFA autism types by how well individuals manage his day to day life and communications.These classifications of autism types are highly controversial and it is not possible to categorize all autistic people in this. It usually observed that individuals with high functioning autism are highly compromised to perform their individual requirements.

But low functioning autistic people have high intellectual powers. It is often unnoticed or recognized because of their problems in communication and writing skills. But it is easy to understand and diagnose people with high functional autism. So they can be better shaped into full fills their basic needs. A number of people diagnosed with low functioning autism are not been able to get help faster. Early intervention and treatment will help those people suffering with autism. It is important to diagnose all autistic types in childhood itself.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Famous people with autism

Want to know about famous autistic people around the world?

The list of famous autistic people comprise of individuals from different walks of life.

  • Daryl Hannah, who was a famous film actress, was diagnosed in child hood having ‘borderline’ autism.
  • Christopher Knowles, he was an American poet also falls under famous autistic people.
  • Actor Matthew McCarron, got place among famous autistic people, because he was murdered by his mother at the age of three.
  • Michael Moon is adopted autistic child of author Elizabeth Moon.
  • Among famous autistic people, there is a high school basket ball player named Jason McElwain.
  • Sue Rubin can not speak but she had communication skills. She got place in the list of famous autistic people because her story was made into a documentary Autism is a word.
  • An author from Germany named Biger Sellin also falls in the list of famous autistic people.
  • Michelle Dawson, who made ethical challenges to applied behavior analysis of people with autism.
  • Temple Grandin was famous designer of food animal handling systems.
  • Hikari Oe, he was famous Japanese music composer.
  • Bhumi Jensen, he was a prince in Thailand and was killed by Tsunami in 2004.
  • Dylan Scott Pierce, was wild life activist.
  • Donna Williams, famous Australian author who wrote books like Nobody Nowhere and Somebody somewhere.
  • Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist was a autistic person.
  • Axel Brauns, his autobiography was one among best seller autobiographies.

All the famous autistic people above mark a distinction among the rest because irrespective of whatever drawback they had they made valuable contribution to the world.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Autism symptoms

Do you know autism is a life long disease? Do you know it ranges from persons to persons? Do you know what are the common autism symptoms and treatment?

All the factors such as genetic, traumatic factors, viral infection during the first trimester of pregnancy have been studied as the possible causes for autism.Autism symptoms and treatment may vary from individual to individual.

Early diagnosis of autistic symptoms and treatment is very important in helping the person. Most of the autistic children are normal in the initial months of growth. Usually autistic symptoms are diagnosed in an advanced age such as three or four years. They will be resistant to cuddling, or they may show signs of irritation in changing their routines or food habits. Like normal children they don’t show attachment to parents or responds to their calls. They will sit isolated engaged in repeated activities like playing with a part of a toy, or repeating previously heard word several times.

They are not demanding attention like normal kids do. This is often makes the parent to think that their child is very understanding and good. They won’t develop normal speaking skills as well. Diagnosis is very important in the autism symptom’s treatment.

There should not be any confusion regarding the diagnosis as this may result in inappropriate and ineffective autism symptom’s treatment. As many children with autism are associated with secondary psychological and neurological disorders, a proper diagnosis of this should be encountered along with autism symptom’s treatment. As autism symptom’s treatment, programs based on behavior based programs are practiced.