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A Background on Communication Disorders Associated with Autism
One of the three major areas greatly affected in the development of autism is the verbal and non-verbal communication. Along with this comes the deficient ability of a child for imaginative play and social interaction.
By the age of three these symptoms will start to manifest. Children with autism develop normally prior to the onset of symptoms so parents don’t usually find some faulty areas until they become prevalent.
Ironically, the development of speech and language facilities begins intensively during the first three years of life. This is when the child learns to copy sounds from the environment, which he will later use as foundations for his talking abilities. This likely occurrence is best explained with the rapid development of the brain and the influence of his environment with his exposure to the speaking world. Many experts add that there is an innate desire for a child to communicate and to convey what his system tells him to do. These are earlier seen with his coo sounds, crying and facial expressions.
This may be or may not be the case for children with autism. Some learns to develop speech and the basics of language but in time, regress into “forgetting” what they have first learned. Others, on the other hand, totally fail to learn how to express themselves through properly structured sounds and syllables.
Gradually, children will learn to form new combinations of sounds until they advance into more complicated words that form sentences and until he adopts himself to the rules of language. They do not only learn this technique but will also learn to associate things, actions, objects and symbols until they engage themselves into representational activities like pretend play.
Medical science is still not certain with the problems that cause people with autistic features to have deficiency in communication. Many experts believe though that there must have been something wrong during, after and before the birth that have created adverse but gradual effects in the brain of the child. Such developmental hindrances impede the child from giving interpretations, both symbolic and non-symbolic to what the world around him wants to convey. This also aggravates his impaired capacity to imagine another persons’ state of mind.
The effects of these are best seen when a child with autism fails to give interest on what a person is telling him and in his obsession to details. Additionally, this is also manifested through showing no interests for pretend plays that usually characterize normal children.
Communication disorders among children with autism varies in intensity and in form. These depend largely on the social development of the child and his intellectual capacities. It is but likely to observe that there are autistic children who cannot articulate simple words while there are those who have rich vocabularies and are able to go into in-depth discussion on their field of interests which often lead people to misjudge them as intelligent.
Another significant communication disorder in children with autism is echolalia. This is characterized with repetitive saying of words that may or may not have meanings at all.
There are other communication disorders associated with autism like delayed or advance learning of words with combined ability to interpret or provide proper meaning with them. Others have exceptional talents in music or awesome abilities such as mental solving of complex mathematical problems of memorization of difficult terms.
There is practically no treatment available for communication disorders in autism. The only best thing to do is to start early in straightening what’s wrong with your child through promoting social skills and improving what’s left to be improved.
Dont miss our Autism Strategies website before you go
One of the three major areas greatly affected in the development of autism is the verbal and non-verbal communication. Along with this comes the deficient ability of a child for imaginative play and social interaction.
By the age of three these symptoms will start to manifest. Children with autism develop normally prior to the onset of symptoms so parents don’t usually find some faulty areas until they become prevalent.
Ironically, the development of speech and language facilities begins intensively during the first three years of life. This is when the child learns to copy sounds from the environment, which he will later use as foundations for his talking abilities. This likely occurrence is best explained with the rapid development of the brain and the influence of his environment with his exposure to the speaking world. Many experts add that there is an innate desire for a child to communicate and to convey what his system tells him to do. These are earlier seen with his coo sounds, crying and facial expressions.
This may be or may not be the case for children with autism. Some learns to develop speech and the basics of language but in time, regress into “forgetting” what they have first learned. Others, on the other hand, totally fail to learn how to express themselves through properly structured sounds and syllables.
Gradually, children will learn to form new combinations of sounds until they advance into more complicated words that form sentences and until he adopts himself to the rules of language. They do not only learn this technique but will also learn to associate things, actions, objects and symbols until they engage themselves into representational activities like pretend play.
Medical science is still not certain with the problems that cause people with autistic features to have deficiency in communication. Many experts believe though that there must have been something wrong during, after and before the birth that have created adverse but gradual effects in the brain of the child. Such developmental hindrances impede the child from giving interpretations, both symbolic and non-symbolic to what the world around him wants to convey. This also aggravates his impaired capacity to imagine another persons’ state of mind.
The effects of these are best seen when a child with autism fails to give interest on what a person is telling him and in his obsession to details. Additionally, this is also manifested through showing no interests for pretend plays that usually characterize normal children.
Communication disorders among children with autism varies in intensity and in form. These depend largely on the social development of the child and his intellectual capacities. It is but likely to observe that there are autistic children who cannot articulate simple words while there are those who have rich vocabularies and are able to go into in-depth discussion on their field of interests which often lead people to misjudge them as intelligent.
Another significant communication disorder in children with autism is echolalia. This is characterized with repetitive saying of words that may or may not have meanings at all.
There are other communication disorders associated with autism like delayed or advance learning of words with combined ability to interpret or provide proper meaning with them. Others have exceptional talents in music or awesome abilities such as mental solving of complex mathematical problems of memorization of difficult terms.
There is practically no treatment available for communication disorders in autism. The only best thing to do is to start early in straightening what’s wrong with your child through promoting social skills and improving what’s left to be improved.
Dont miss our Autism Strategies website before you go
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