Children Whose Growth and Development May Get Hampered

Pradip Maity (Renounced Physiotherapist)

•     Birth before expected delivery date (37 weeks before).
•      Children who did not cry after birth.
•     Respiratory distressed.
•     Birth weight below 2kg 500 gm.
•       Infections.
•      Jaundice at a high level after few days of birth.
•      Convulsion.
•     Head injury during birth.
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Autism Basics

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Characteristic of Autism :

Severe delays in language development: Language develops too slowly if develops at all, and they have peculiar speech patterns like the unorganized use of words to understand its meaning or use of unusual metaphors or in a monotone voice. About 40% of children with autism do not talk at all, some have echolalia – the repeated words might be said right way or at a later time.

Severe delays in understanding social relationships: The child with autism often avoid eye contact, resists being picked up and seems to time out the world around them resulting lack of cooperative play with peers-a lack of ability to develop friendship and to understand others’ feelings.

Inconsistant pattern of sensory responses: the child with autism some time many appear to be deaf and fail to respond any word or other sounds, sometimes they are extremely distressed by the everyday sound of domestic appliances, even cry of pets. In fine, may show apparent insensitively or many overreact to the same cause.

Uneven pattern of intellectual functioning: Child with autism may do some work like drawing, music, computation in math etc quite well in relation to overall functioning. Very often the child with autism has varying degrees of mental retardation this combination of intellectual variation makes autism perplexing. 

---- taken from an article of K. S. Adhikaree, Ex Asstt. Commissioner

Autism Basics

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People with classic autism show three types of symptoms: impaired social interaction, the problem with verbal and non-verbal communication severely limited activities or interests. People with autism may have a different time relating the outside world and may have unusual relation to the people around him. They may demonstrate aggressive behaviour by one's activity, unusual passivity in relating to parents, family members and others.

Actually, autism is a spectrum disorder – the symptoms and characteristics of autism can present themselves in a wide variety of combination. Two children both with the same diagnosis can act very different from one another and have varying skills.

Depending on ones, specific symptoms a child with autism can be included in any one of the following: Persons with autistic behaviour but well-developed language skills are often diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. Apart from classic autistic disorder, and Asperger Syndrome, CDD, PDNOS, Rett Syndrome another conditions included in ASD, which occurs only in girls and cause them to develop autism-like symptoms after seemingly normal development. Rett syndrome is sex-linked genetic disorder characterized by inadequate brain growth seizures and other neurological problem.

---- taken from an article of K. S. Adhikaree, Ex Asstt. Commissioner

Autism Basics

Autism Basics

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how the brain functions specifically those areas of the brain that control social ability and communication skills i.e it is not a disease but a developmental disorder of brain’s function which was first described by Dr Leo Kanner in 1943. Autism prevents an individual from properly understanding what they see, hear, feel, smell, taste and otherwise sense. Naturally severe problems of social relationships communication and behaviours are cropping up.

Developmental disability means a severe, chronic disability of a person which is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of both is manifested before the person attains age of 22, is likely to continue indefinitely, results in substantial functional limitations in different area of major life activities like self care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self direction, capacity for independent living and economic sufficiency. And reflects the person’s need for a combination and sequence of special interdisciplinary or generic care, treatment or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned or coordinated.

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---- taken from an article of K. S. Adhikaree, Ex Asstt. Commissioner (Disability)