What are the characteristics displayed by a child with Autism?

      

List the characteristics displayed by a child with Autism.

  

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Maurice
(i) Need for environmental predictability/ insist on sameness.

(ii)Sensory disorders-over/ under responsiveness to sensory stimuli.

(iii) Mental retardation.

(iv) Learning difficulties/ fails to learn by imitation.

(v) Repetitive behaviour/ repeat activities/ obsession/ tics/ preservation.

(vi) Lack of awareness of other people/ prefer isolation/ lack of social interaction.

(vii) Pays more attention to objects than to other people.

(viii) Delayed language/ echolalia/ echoing other people's language.

(ix) Lack of imagination and ability to play.

(x) Unco-ordinated body movements/ movement disorders/ posture/ movement of face/head/ trunk/ limbs/ difficulty with starting/ executing and switching movements/ abnormal eye movement.

(xi) Unintentional speech.

(xii) Impending behaviour/ self injurious behaviour/ aggression/ tantrums/ property destruction.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on August 24, 2017 at 08:15


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