Symptoms of autism in children

Symptoms of autism in children, autistic children are often called autistic children. Due to the emergence of more and more children's autism, many people pay more and more attention to autism. Let's look at the symptoms of autism in children.

Symptoms of autism in children 1 1, language disorder.

Language and communication disorders are important symptoms of autism, and they are also the main reasons for most children to see a doctor. Language and communication barriers can take many forms. Most autistic children have language development delay or disorder, usually they still can't speak when they are two or three years old, or they have language retrogression after normal language development. Before they were two or three years old, they had expressive language. With the increase of age, expressive language gradually decreased or even completely lost, and they remained silent all their lives or used limited language in rare cases. Their ability to feel and express language has some obstacles.

2. Social barriers

Patients cannot establish normal interpersonal relationships with others. I didn't make eye contact with others when I was a child, and my expression was very poor. I lack the expression or gesture of expecting parents and others to hug and caress, and I don't enjoy the happy expression when caressing. I even refused to hug and caress my parents and others. I can't tell the relationship between relatives and friends, and I have the same attitude towards relatives and others. It is difficult to establish a normal attachment relationship with parents, and it is also difficult for patients to establish a normal partnership with children of the same age. For example, they spend more time alone in kindergarten and don't like to play with their peers; Seeing some children playing games together with great interest, they are not interested in watching and have no desire to participate.

3. Narrow interests and rigid behavior patterns

Patients are not interested in games and toys that normal children are keen on, but like to play with some non-toy items, such as a bottle cap or an electric fan that can last for dozens of minutes or even hours without getting bored. I am not interested in the main features of toys, but I am very concerned about the non-main features: patients stubbornly demand to keep the routine of daily activities unchanged, such as going to bed, covering the quilt, and taking the same route when going out. If these activities are stopped or behavior patterns are changed, patients will show obvious unhappiness and anxiety, and even appear rebellious behavior. Patients may have repetitive stiff movements, such as repeatedly clapping their hands, turning in circles, licking the wall with their tongue, stamping their feet, etc.

4. Mental retardation

Among autistic children, the intelligence level is very inconsistent, a few patients are within the normal range, and most patients show different degrees of mental retardation. Studies at home and abroad show that about 50% of autistic children have moderate mental retardation (IQ less than 50), 25% have mild mental retardation (IQ between 50 and 69), 25% have normal intelligence (IQ greater than 70), and those with normal intelligence are called high-functioning autism.

Symptoms of autism in children II. Manifestations of autism in children

1, language communication disorder

Nonverbal communication disorder: In the manifestations of autism, children still cry or scream to express their discomfort or necessity. Older patients will pull the adult's hand to what they want, lack relative facial emotions, and their small expressions often appear indifferent, and rarely use gestures such as nodding, shaking their heads and waving to express their intentions.

Language communication barriers: There are significant barriers to language communication among autistic children, including: ① different levels of language understanding; (2) Language and language development are slow or not growing. Some patients have expressive language before the age of 2-3, but then it gradually decreases or even disappears completely; ③ Abnormal language style and content: Patients often have imitative language, rigid and repetitive language, common mistakes in grammatical structure and personal pronouns, and abnormal tone, speed, regularity and stress; ④ Impaired ability of language application: Although some patients can recite children's songs and "speak words", they seldom communicate with each other, so it is not easy to clearly put forward the topic discussion, keep the topic discussion, or communicate only through rigid and repetitive sentences, and get stuck in the same topic discussion.

2, lonely and isolated, not in contact with people.

Autistic children love to live alone and have no dependence on their parents. Some patients always react in infancy, and they hate being hugged by others. Being hugged by others will make people angry. Their loneliness is mainly manifested in not paying attention to the things around them, doing whatever they want, regardless of the consequences, and no one around them. What happened around him seems to have nothing to do with him, nor can it arouse his interests and concerns, let alone make eye contact with others.

3. Narrow interests and hobbies, and dull and repetitive personal behaviors.

Children's autism is often manifested by their long-term commitment to one or more mobile games or theme activities, such as being obsessed with turning over the pot or turning around by themselves, loving watching video advertisements and weather forecasts, and not being interested in cartoons, children's TV and movies with plots. Some patients insist on taking the same route to kindergarten every day. If there is any change, there will be obvious mental dissatisfaction such as crying and running.

Second, communication barriers in the social development of autistic children

Autistic children have qualitative defects in interpersonal communication. In the neonatal period, patients avoid eye contact, lack interest and reflection on people's noise, have no hope of being hugged, or have stiff muscles when hugging and refuse to get close to people.

In early childhood, patients still avoid eye contact, often don't respond to their calls, don't rely on their parents, lack interest and hobbies in getting along or playing with children of the same age, and it is not easy to get along with children of the same age in a gentle way, to establish cooperative relations with children of the same age, to convey happiness to others, and to seek relief from others when they are unhappy or hurt.

After preschool, with the growth of age and the improvement of illness, patients will become more and more friendly but emotional to their parents and compatriots, but they still obviously lack the interest and personal behavior of actively getting along with others.

Although some patients want to get along with others, they still have problems with their way of getting along. Their lack of understanding of social media reflects the mentality of others, so they can't adjust their personal behavior according to social media places. As adults, patients still lack social media hobbies and professional skills, so they can't establish relationships and get married.

Symptoms of autism in children 3. Methods of treating autism in children;

First, medication. At present, drug therapy can't change the course of autism, but it may control some symptoms to some extent. The drugs used are antipsychotics, central nervous system stimulants, antihistamines, antidepressants, salts and vitamins, and the curative effect is inconclusive.

Second, behavioral therapy. Treatment should focus on promoting the socialization and language development of autistic children, and try to reduce the pathological behaviors that interfere with children's function and are uncoordinated with learning, such as rigidity, self-injury and aggressive behavior. Principles of behavioral therapy. First, the treatment plan should be individualized. Second, help children transplant the skills they learned in hospitals and schools to their homes or other occasions. Third, another purpose of treatment is to promote children's social development, so it is not suitable for long-term hospitalization.

Third, education and treatment. The goal of education should focus on teaching them useful social skills, such as self-care ability in daily life, ways and skills of interacting with people; Basic survival skills such as coordination with the surrounding environment and code of conduct, and use of public facilities.

Fourth, acupuncture treatment in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that intellectual activity belongs to the function of five internal organs, the kidney is the innate foundation, the bone governs the bone marrow, and the heart governs the gods as the palace of the monarch; The liver is the palace of generals, and the deficiency of congenital endowment or acquired malnutrition can lead to the damage of the heart, liver, kidney and other viscera, which makes the marrow sea not full, the mind weak, the planning abnormal, resulting in mental retardation.

According to this principle, Comrade Yan initiated the treatment of autistic children with acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine, and selected specific acupoints such as the resuscitation area, the mind area, the intellectual area and the intellectual area to strengthen the brain, improve intelligence, enlighten the mind and soothe the nerves, and reconcile the eight stimulating lines of the channels of Ren and Du, as well as the specific acupoints of limbs and back, so as to refresh the brain, tonify the kidney, strengthen the spleen, replenish essence and replenish blood. Supplemented by matching points, regulating liver and strengthening brain, calming liver and calming wind, resolving phlegm and inducing resuscitation.

So as to regulate the qi of five zang-organs and meridians, change the state of deficiency and excess of viscera, promote the development of brain cells and improve children's intelligence. Modern medicine believes that stimulating some acupoints can improve microcirculation of cerebral cortex, increase blood flow of brain tissue, improve nutrition and oxygen supply of brain tissue, and promote excretion of substitute products. Therefore, acupoint therapy can obviously improve mental retardation. Psychology believes that by stimulating acupoints on the body surface, children can feel comfortable in contact, feel the affection of the skin, make children feel safe easily, and the performer can easily establish a harmonious relationship with children, which is conducive to promoting children's social interaction.