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The Effects Of Autism On Children 's Development

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Abstract In the early 1900’s autism was a completely misunderstood concept and any child who was living with it was assumed to be living with “childhood schizophrenia” and developed much slower than children without autism. A four year study of Donald Triplett gave Dr. Kannar a better understanding of what autism was and what it caused certain people to do. The main question was, does it affect the child’s development? Living with autism can affect a child’s development due to the fact that they don’t have a long attention span, can cause them to have a repetitive behavior, along with trouble in social situations whether it be verbal or non verbal. Introduction Autism is a brain disorder that can affect a child’s development in the sense that they would have trouble with verbal and nonverbal communication, repetitive behavior, or social interaction in general. Autism can be detected in children ages two to three years old and 1 in every 88 children in America are diagnosed with autism yearly. Autism falls under the ASD or Autism Spectrum Disorder which is broad term that categorizes similar disorders. The disorders fall under that umbrella term due to the fact that they allocate similar characteristics/symptoms. – Autism – Asperser’s Syndrome – PDD-NOS (Pervasive Development Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified) – Rett Syndrome – Childhood disintegrative disorder In 1943, child psychiatrist and founder of the first academic child psychiatry unit at

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