Friday, March 15, 2013

What is Autism?


 Austism, also known as ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) is a brain disorder which makes children develop is such a different way than normal children do, in areas as communication and reactions to certain situation.. For example, if someone smiles, normal children would assume that the person is happy or just being nice to them, but a kid with autism wouldn't have any idea of how even the person is feeling because of their problems connecting a person's facial expressions with  the person's feelings.  

For children with autism it's hard to link words with their meanings, ,so it's very difficult for them to express themselves correctly, even  to put the right worlds together in order to say something logic, for this reason they usually can't communicate without special help. They can't keep information for a long time, that's why they need special education as well. Also, very gentle sounds may sound as the loudest and scariest sound ever. Most of children who suffer this disoder don't even like being touched; they may only let their relarves touch them. In USA, over 500,000 children suffer from autism or a very similar brain disorder. 

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