Autism, The Neurological Disorder

By Author: Shourya Ray Chaudhuri
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Disorders of various kinds affect in varied ways. Many health related issues occur either during pregnancy or after the birth of a child. The child can either be affected mentally or physically. If mentally, parents would be able to recognize it gradually and if physically it can be recognized during the birth of the child.

Disorders many vary from person to person. A child has a very tender body and mind to be affected easily to health related issues. They need to be taken care of with lot of pr4ecautions, especially in the initial growing days, so that there grown up days need not be spent in hospitals or on medications, instead should be able to lead a happy and healthy life. Some kids are affected mentally so much that they can be cured with a lot of affection and warmth given by parents and specialists in the hospitals or in the institutions which offer help to such individuals through therapies, medications and exercising. Security builds a bond between the child and the doctor, which can prove fruitful in curing the child as early as possible.

Autism is one such disorder that occurs in children, in their ...
... younger ages. It is a neurological disorder that affects information processing in the brain, leaving the child feeling very lonely even when amidst a crowd. There are various signs in a child that projects whether he/she is having autism disorder, which needs to be recognized by the parents so that they could provide them the appropriate medical aid, to recover faster. This particular neurological disorder includes impaired social interaction, depleted communication levels and repetitive behavior; these are the signs that confirm the presence of this disorder present in a child. All these signs are not present in the initial days of the child’s life instead they develop gradually.

Some autistic children develop normally in the initial stages and then regress, portraying various signs of autism, which the parents need to be attentive about during the growing up days of a child to recognize the developing disorder, so that they could approach the specialized doctors to rectify it in the initially itself. This disorder begins even before the child grows to be three years of age, allowing the parents to notice all the signs related to autism in the first two years of their child’s life which becomes a necessity to provide the child the right aid, which gets confirmed by the time they turn three years of age. Autism may be caused by a range of elements including genetic factors, problems at birth and certain types of infections affecting the child. These infections can be caused due to pollutants and other environmental factors, but research is still ongoing by the specialists with respect to this, since it is not exactly known how and what causes autism.

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