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    Autism: The Essential Guide to Understanding Autism
    Autism: The Essential Guide to Understanding Autism
    Autism: The Essential Guide to Understanding Autism
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    Autism: The Essential Guide to Understanding Autism

    By John Gahan, LCGI

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    Autism is a lifelong  neuro-developmental disability  that affects the development of the brain in areas of social interaction and communication.  People with autism have difficulties in communicating and forming relationships with people, in developing language and in using abstract concepts.  It also impacts on their ability to make sense of the world around them.

    Autism is described as a “spectrum disorder”. This means that the symptoms and characteristics of autism can present themselves in a wide variety of combinations and can range from mild to severe. Two people with the same diagnosis can act very differently from one another and have varying skills. Autism Spectrum Disorder is also referred to as ASD.

    Autism is often referred to as the “hidden” disability because people who are on the autistic spectrum show no significant physical difference to their peers, rather it is their behaviours that mark them out as different.  The 3 main areas of difficulty for people with autism are referred to as the “triad of impairments”.

    • Social communication  
    • Social interaction 
    • Social imagination 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSepharial
    Release dateJun 23, 2017
    ISBN9781386315803
    Autism: The Essential Guide to Understanding Autism

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 – What Is Autism ......................................................... 3

      Chapter 2 – What Are the Factors that Contribute to Autism....... 4

      Chapter 3 – Autism and Genetics ................................................ 5

      Chapter 4 – What Are the Symptoms of Autism .......................... 6

      Chapter 5 – What Are the Speech and Communication Problems of Autism 7

      Chapter 6 – Autism and Body Language ..................................... 8

      Chapter 7 – Autism, Toxic Metals, and Vaccines......................... 9

      Chapter 8 – The Cause of Autism Might Be Found in Autistic Mice   10

      Chapter 11 – How Is Autism Diagnosed .................................... 13

      Chapter 12 – Myths about Autism .............................................. 14

      Chapter 13 – How to Look for Autism Signs in Infants............... 15

      Chapter 14 – How Can Families Cope With an Autistic Child and the Financial

      Burden ........................................................................................ 16

      Bonus Article 29

      Chapter 1 – What Is Autism

      You may have seen an autistic child or adult and never knew that the person had a diagnosis.  Your ignorance about the disorder is not uncommon because most people who are not experienced with the disorder look at autistic people as those who are mentally retarded or have some learning disability.  This is not true.  Autism is a very complicated disorder that affects children typically from the age of three to conception. The disorder is neurological in nature and primarily affects the areas of the brain where communication and social interaction is developed.  To the unsuspecting person, the autistic child or adult would be considered mentally unstable or retarded.

      The unique thing about autism and the reason it is sometimes hard to detect is that the disorder affects different sufferers in different levels of complexity.  A mildly affected child may be able to communicate their wants and needs, but there communication is often stifled and they do not understand the subtleties of the English language.  Sometimes humor, irony, and other nuances of the language will present a difficult or impassible barrier to the child’s communication process.  Another autistic sufferer may have severe autism where the child or the adult cannot communicate at all.  The sad thing is that the autistic person can think about the what they want to say

      and how to communicate it, but the words do not come out and their silence on appears on the outside.

      Can you imagine trying to communicate with your teacher or parent and the words won’t come out?  You know the answer to the question and you know how to do the task, but the communication and the rest of your body just doesn’t come out.  That is why it is difficult for both teachers and parents to understand what autism is and how to deal with it.  The child cannot even communicate its wants and needs during play with other children.  A simple act of digging with a sand shovel can be an awkward movement or grunt that would be totally misunderstood by the other child.

      Autistic children act differently to normal situations than other kids.  Loud noises, a deviation from a familiar route, or

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