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The signs and symptoms of Autism Outbreaks
The most obvious sign of autism in children is its inability to interact socially. Babies and infants will not respond to smiles, vocal games or other stimuli or activities in their immediate environment. The children will not follow the other eye, or make no eye contact. Children with autism do not understand facial expressions or body language of another person and do not form their own use. They do not make emotional and social ties.
In addition, many children with autism do not acquire language skills, and it is unlikely that those that do initiate a conversation. However, it is not unusual for a child with autism to repeat sentences heard in conversation or in the past.
This tendency to repeat is apparent in other behaviors associated with autism. Certain movements or gestures – such as hand flapping or twisting of the body – will be repeated again and again. The child does not participate in games using the imagination, but he can learn and imitate gestures. For example, a child who appears to the phone – dialing, talking, hanging up – will do exactly the same manner and to the same next time. This is not a sign of an active imagination, but rather the repetition of a learned behavior. Learning also occurs erratically: that a child seems to have learned one day be forgotten the next.
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