What are the manifestations and symptoms of autistic children before they are three years old? Can they be diagnosed?

Most of the symptoms of autism have been widely manifested after birth 18 months. The social behavior of autistic children is different from that of normal children as early as 1 year old, especially in terms of "whether to look at other people's faces, intentionally pointing, responding to names, and intentionally expressing".

If you have parenting experience, normal contrast and keen insight, most family members can detect the abnormality when the child is 18 months old; Family members' understanding of autism-related information, mothers' education level and close contact with children are closely related to early correct medical treatment.

Many early symptoms of autism are misunderstood as the performance of good children, such as quiet, independent and no requirements. In fact, most parents have been able to accurately find some developmental abnormalities in their children during maternal and child health care or 18 months' upbringing. However, due to their good physical development and lack of medical knowledge related to autism, they often take a wait-and-see attitude and think that it is too late to talk, which delays the opportunity to see a doctor as soon as possible.

In the training of the first case, the family members had the knowledge of autism, saying that as early as six months, the child's eye contact was poor, "get out of the way in two seconds", and it seemed that they lacked interest in the people and creatures around them, did not take the initiative to ask for it, could not babble, and did not have the common body language communication of infants. When his parents tried to hug him, there was no obvious eye expectation and arm outstretched. This lack of cross-attention is actually that children and people around them can't enjoy information, which is usually divided into the lack of demand attention (children want something and want to achieve a certain goal) and the lack of talk attention (simple evaluation of things and emotional communication with external things). Children have repetitive and stereotyped activities, and their language and speech development obviously lags behind their peers; Very sensitive to subtle changes in the environment, so anxious; Have a particularly paranoid interest, such as a toy that never leaves; I like clapping my hands, swinging my body and rotating mechanically; The reaction to sound, smell, taste, sight and feeling is different from others.

In addition, in 10-24 months, development retrogressed or stagnated, including language, babbling, gestures or social skills retrogression. For example, after calling "mom", completely stop using language or say "goodbye" with your hands, which is also an early symptom of autism and needs to be highly valued.

It is said that autism can only be diagnosed at the age of three, so how to judge before the age of three?

Although the age of diagnosis of autism is mostly around three years old, many survey results show that many children will have language communication before the age of two. Social interaction, physical exercise and other obstacles and signs, if the child has the following circumstances, parents should pay attention.

The survey results show that most autistic children have no obvious developmental abnormalities before half a year old.

Some parents said that the child did not make eye contact when he was 6 months old and was not among the "early warning signals" of autism.

If this does happen, it should be noted that autistic children mainly focus on lips, chin and ears or a subtle point of people, while normal children mainly focus on eyes.

1, when he was near the child, he didn't respond and didn't have any social smiles.

2. When interacting with children, children have no obvious cooperation and will not imitate their parents' actions and expressions.

3. Usually, after six months, ordinary children will make "babbling" sounds and syllables, while autistic children will not.

He didn't respond when others called him, and he didn't find the sound source when he took the brick.

5 10 months, I still can't communicate simply with body language and express my inner thoughts.

6, no eyes, usually less eye contact with parents.

7. The interest in communicating with people is far lower than that in liking toys and articles.

8. When parents tried to hug him, they didn't have obvious eyes looking forward to cooperating with the actions such as extending their arms.

About 9, 1 year-old, still can't point to what he wants.

1, slow movement, including walking and standing.

2, the language is backward, can't pronounce, and can't speak simple words at the age of two.

3. Repeated stereotyped movements of body and fingers (87% parents with autism reported abnormal results).

4. Enthusiasm and infatuation with certain toys and things.

5. Lack of sharing toys and happiness with other children of the same age.

6, like to play alone, indifferent to everything around, indifferent.

7. Hearing his parents calling his name, there was no obvious reaction.

8. Lack of eye contact.

9, abnormal movements in the limbs, like to turn around, rotate, shake.

In addition, I want to tell you that once a child has a variety of situations, he must cooperate with professionals for diagnosis. He should integrate "communication between parents, evaluation of standard tools and multidisciplinary cooperation". For example, if a child is not sensitive to sound, he should cooperate with an otolaryngologist to make a diagnosis.

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The general diagnosis of autism is after the age of three. Generally speaking, children over two years old can't speak, so they can't simply be considered as autism, because the core obstacles of autism are social obstacles and behavioral obstacles, and language is just one of them.

So what I need to ask you now is the child's social problems, whether there are any behavioral and emotional problems. If it is still not specific enough, then I will list the most typical symptoms of autistic children before the age of three. Compare one by one. If your child has more than eight symptoms, you should pay attention to:

1, language development is slow, I can't call my parents at the age of 2, and I speak late.

2. There is language fossilization. For example, adults say to children: Baby, call uncle hello, and children say: OK, then, there may be problems; If the child's answer is: Baby, call uncle. Then the problem is even more serious. Because this is a child's incomprehension of language, some children with autism spectrum disorders like to say only one or two words.

3, like to repeat advertising words and weather forecasts, especially like to repeat the same sentence.

4, there is no eye contact and communication with adults, most of them are not eye contact or short-term eye contact, such as more than ten seconds.

5, the senses are very sensitive, for example, some children are very afraid of light, some children are afraid of harsh voices, and some children do not respond to the call of adults, or overreact.

6. I like to ask adults more than five times a day (such as eating, drinking and hugging).

7. When you need something or a toy, you don't point to a place, but hold your parents' hands on it.

8, call the child's name, the child did not respond.

9, narrow and rigid interest, only pay attention to what you like, like things that can rotate, such as round toys, washing machines, the rotation of electric fans, the rotation of car tires and so on.

10, rigid behavior, like to do the same thing every day, eat the same food, do the same thing, if you stop, you will get out of control.

1 1, afraid of narrow places or spaces, such as taking the elevator and entering small houses.

12, indifferent to parents' feelings and unresponsive to the departure of relatives.

13, does not like to ask questions. This topic is aimed at children over 2 years old and never asks why.

14, can't do imaginary games and activities, for example, some children don't like to play house and make friends by themselves (this is often overlooked and important! )

15, can't imitate adults' movements and language demeanor, and doesn't like to do things that children of the same age like to do.

If you have any questions, please leave me a message in the comments section!

After reading several answers, they all emphasized early detection and early intervention. This sentence is very popular in the field of autism rehabilitation now, and it is a bit regarded as an iron law.

I found that a special education teacher replied that a child of five or six months would recover before he could walk. I almost lost my chin! Although there was no affirmation in his answer, there was no denial. In short, giving people a sense of identity will mislead a large number of ordinary parents and parents of blood!

I must say something about this, and I must clear my name for this "early" in early detection and early intervention!

There is a limit to everything, the so-called extremes meet, and this "early" is the same. The reason why the United States set the diagnosis standard at three years old is that it has its basic research theory, its cognition of autism and its careful consideration of "people".

Therefore, early intervention must not be out of line! We can't exaggerate so crazily that we don't respect the objective law of children's development at all. Instead, we use the unified model of our cognition to set the development state of each child and arbitrarily think that it doesn't meet or lag behind his age development standard. In fact, it is the same as the saying that "don't let your child lose at the starting line" that has been stinking all the time!

Every child is very different, and it can't be the same on the road of development, and it can't be the same on the subtle behavior. If it is the same, it is called cloning! What's more, cloning will not be like this!

Therefore, I think all children suspected of autism before the age of two are hooligans, even if the children are really autistic in the future!

After the age of two, ordinary children can basically have a good language development, and then they can gradually find the gap between children and other ordinary children. When the gap is not ten thousandths, it can't be judged as suspected at all! Unless all aspects are obviously behind ordinary children of the same age!

The closer you get to the age of three, the easier it is to be suspected or diagnosed. A special case that needs to be mentioned is "degradation". If a child degenerates at any time before the age of three, "degeneration" does not mean "retrogression". Retrograde is common, but the obvious retrogression is degeneration. Even if you are only two years old or younger, you can basically be diagnosed with autism, because there is no retrogression in developmental retardation.

Between the ages of two and three, if you show a series of symptoms of developmental retardation or autism, you can judge it as suspected.

Here I will talk about some obvious characteristics, such as serious rigid paranoia, clinging to one object, taking a fixed route when going out, being extremely unaccustomed to changes in the environment, having obvious self-stimulation behavior, being extremely narrow-minded in interest or making us become strangers. For example, I like things that we usually think should not be liked by children. My daughter likes some rags and bags. Almost completely ignoring people, uncontrollable temper, easy to be inspired, showing resistance to many things, obviously unacceptable behavior problems. ...

Let me talk about these obvious features first. Of course, there are many other manifestations, and these behaviors must appear in many ways to be more easily diagnosed.

However, both autism and developmental retardation need to be improved by the same methods and approaches, that is, ABA behavior analysis in daily life is used to intervene in training, and even simple play is a good intervention.

That's all, I hope the answer is helpful!