Interviewer: The word autism, would you define a classical care with autism? What is autism? What would you say to that?
Interviewee: Basically, autism sort of—they has its three course symptoms. There is always going to be deficit in speech in language and communication. Some kids are nonverbal, but other kids are verbal, but either one of the kids will use their language communicatively in the beginning. The second area that is always affected. It is social abilities. So they do not know how to make friends. Many of them, they are more classical affected kids do not appear to have any interested to people, whatsoever.
And then third area is in repetitive behavior. It can be the very classic forms such as rocking or hand flatting and it could be something less classical. It has been abscess to its specific topic or meeting your sheets, could be the same everyday.
Interviewer: If you have a new baby and he is on TV all the time, a kid is like 4-months-old. What is in smiling could make eye contract. Does that mean the kid is autistic?
Interviewee: I thought necessarily. I mean the research now is really moving back with diagnoses and somewhere we are starting to identify a couple of characters that are pretty consistent with later on diagnosis of autism. But the two that are most common are what we call poor affect of social relationship which means they are no smiling. They are reciprocal engaging in this reciprocal kickable winner actions and the others are not responding to their name.
But you usually you do not get too clear on whether not this is Autism until the kid is about 1-year of age.
Interviewer: So essentially a kid that stated age is little concern that does not mean the kid is going to end up there, right?
Interviewee: No. I would be concern, but only because the whole development of Century Troy Detention also place such as significant ruling language. I would be concern if it is 5 or 6 months my child was not making eye contact or engaging with her reciprocal smile. But it does not mean that they have autism. It just means that you just should keep on eye on the child and if by 12, 13, 14 months, they are not responding their name consistently and there are still not engaging reciprocal social interactions then I would be concern and I will clearly take the job be evaluated.
Interviewer: Of course, you will always make sure the kid is hearing and singing.
Interviewee: Absolutely. Yes, hearing the first thing we will check.
Interviewer: Okay, we do check kids in their born to hearing, but the rock kids who hear normally when they are born and they will find some have loss the hearing later on.
Interviewee: That is right.
Interviewer: Okay, the other thing is if the kid is 18-months-old and not saying any words. Not trying to reach out to get the passage or juice something that is a big, big red flag you concern, are not you?
Interviewee: Yes. I mean the speech part is interesting because there is a whole group of kids called late talkers. And there are a whole budge of kids who do not develop speech within the—what we called the normal time frame who do not have autism. But the thing that distinguishes the two is that the children are developing speech, who probably later on are diagnose with autism are kids who are compensating.
So if you see a child has deft an 18-months, they may not be speaking but they are compensating by gesturing.
Interviewer: And trying to get something.
Interviewee: They are trying to communicate where in are the children who later become have a diagnosis of autism. You do not see any compensation. They are not trying to communicate in any way.
Interviewer: Getting back to that little baby. If you will look concern about devilment and there are problems available, you certainly want the kid to be evaluated by neurologist or developmental program.
Interviewee: I would. Most important thing at this point if there are very few people who are good enough in evaluating infants. If I have a child who is under 18-months of age and I was concern, I would make sure that I look fo
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