| The earlier autism is diagnosed, the better facilitation of | | | | conclude that a child truly has autistic features. |
| prognosis is done. Treatment and hopeful cure follow | | | | Physical and neurological examinations |
| afterwards. | | | | Examination of medical history including those that |
| The problem though with autism is that it is often hard | | | | manifest through relatives. This also consists of birth |
| to diagnose. Not only that there is wide spectrum of | | | | history and developmental conditions, and Medical tests |
| autism-related diseases but mainly because most | | | | to help rule out other diseases |
| symptoms only manifest during certain phases of | | | | Diagnostic criteria are used to formally determine if a |
| developmental stages. | | | | child is truly subjected to autistic features. |
| One of the many essential features concerned with | | | | Comprehensive diagnosis can be done through routine |
| children of autistic disorder is their tendency to create | | | | developmental screening which concerns mostly all |
| odd interests and poor attention and focus. Additionally, | | | | developmental features that are absent or deficient |
| they also deficit in social interaction. Most authorities in | | | | with autistic children. |
| this subject affirm that these features clearly indicate | | | | Say, if a child fails to show the following features, he |
| autistic factors yet they admit that these are not | | | | can be initially diagnosed as candidate for autism: |
| enough to diagnose autism among children younger | | | | Babbling at his 1st year |
| than 3 years old. | | | | Development of gestures on his 1st year |
| Moreover, the inconsistency of symptom manifestation | | | | Ability to say single words at I year and 4 months of |
| often hampers the proper diagnosis of autism more | | | | age |
| than the abnormality itself. There are virtually lots of | | | | Spontaneous phrasing of 2 words at 2 years old |
| factors affecting this inconsistency. | | | | Any autism diagnosis should be done by experts and |
| Autism can also be correlated with other conditions | | | | people who have a professional experience with |
| such as mental retardation, childhood psychoses, | | | | autism and children development issues, do not be |
| Asperger disorder and a couple of other neurological | | | | tempted to sign your own verdict on your child, or any |
| disorders. | | | | other child, because of fears and bad thoughts that |
| Often, diagnosis begins through these three determining | | | | you may have. In many cases borderline symptoms of |
| factors. Keep in mind though that evaluation of these | | | | autism combined with extensive treatment resulted in |
| three stages would not suffice the data so as to | | | | a normally developed child. |