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Autism Fact Sheet
Warning Signs Every Parent Should Know
By The Help Group
Once considered a rare disorder, today autism affects as many as 1 in every 150 children. In fact, nearly every 20 minutes a new case is diagnosed. Autism refers to a wide spectrum of disorders, with symptoms ranging from severe to mild. Children with autism have language delays or other communication problems, poor or limited social skills and engage in rigid and repetitive behaviors.
Some early signs of autism appear in the first years of life, and it can be detected as early as 18 months of age. Still, the diagnosis of autism is typically not made until 3 to 4 years of age or later. Research has shown that early identification and intervention can make the critical difference for children with autism. Autism warning signs include the following:
- Does not make eye contact or makes little eye contact
- Does not seem interested in other people
- Does not react by looking at people when they are making social "sounds," such as humming or clapping
- Does not show as much interest in people as objects
- Does not have a social smile (smiling back to someone who smiles at them without being cooed at or touched)
- Does not show interest in watching other people's faces
- Does not combine eye contact with smiling
- Does not babble (or the babble does not sound like "talking")
- Does not look at objects that another person is looking at
- Does not try to engage other people in what he or she is looking at or doing
- Does not follow a person's eye contact when the person points out an object and says, "Look at the airplane!"
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