| Autism is not like cancer, where there are fewer | | | | Autistic children have difficulties with social interaction, |
| controversies surrounding whether one should select | | | | display problems with verbal and nonverbal |
| embryos who will never suffer from cancer. That is | | | | communication, and exhibit repetitive behaviors or |
| because autism is not a disease, and need not lead to | | | | narrow, obsessive interests. Autism is no longer |
| suffering, and with enough accommodation by society, | | | | attributed, as it once was, to lack of affection in the |
| people with autism can be free of suffering. Autism is | | | | child's mother. |
| thought by the scientific community to be of genetic | | | | Autism is most commonly diagnosed at 20 to 36 |
| origin. | | | | months, but experts say the signs often surface |
| Autism is a profound developmental disability that can | | | | earlier. Many families experience delays because |
| severely impair a child's abilities. Students with autism | | | | pediatricians often dismiss their concerns. Autism is not |
| have unique abilities and needs which require special | | | | caused by an unhappy home environment, both |
| considerations in designing, implementing and evaluating | | | | parents working, mental stress during the pregnancy, |
| their educational programs. | | | | poor handling by the mother, an emotional trauma, or |
| Autism is diagnosed on the basis of abnormalities in | | | | other psychological factors. |
| the areas of social development, communicative | | | | You cannot cause a child to become autistic. Autism is |
| development, and imagination, together with marked | | | | frightening, and parents want to find a reason for it. |
| repetitive or obsessional behaviour or unusual, narrow | | | | This is also the time when children may start to show |
| interests . Individuals with autism may have an IQ at | | | | signs of autism. |
| any level. Autism is a pervasive developmental | | | | Autism isn't a lack of social behavior, it's an inability to |
| disorder that includes a wide array of symptoms. We | | | | learn social behavior at all. Autistic's aren't able to |
| do not know the cause of autism and we have no | | | | socialize as "normal" people are able to. Autism is |
| cure. | | | | multivariate in presentation and cure. The disease |
| Autism is believed to be a neurological and sensory | | | | bows to the collective weight of doctors working with |
| disorder; autistic children do not perceive and relate to | | | | therapists working with educators working with |
| the rest of the world in the same way as other | | | | researchers working with parents working to recover |
| children. Temple Grandin, an autistic who gained a PhD | | | | their children. Autism is more common than Down |
| in animal behavior as an adult, has written of her life | | | | syndrome and cerebral palsy combined. There are |
| with autism in Thinking in Pictures . | | | | over half a million people with autism in the UK. |
| Autism is characterized by three distinctive behaviors. | | | | |