What's the severity of autism?

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At present, children with ASD can be roughly divided into grade one, grade two and grade three according to the degree of severity. Parents can develop appropriate intervention methods for their children according to their different conditions. Now let me introduce to you.

What's the severity of autism?

The first level of such children need ordinary, normal help, in social communication: in the absence of support, social communication defects cause observable damage, there are difficulties in starting social interaction, there are unsuccessful responses to other people's social signals. Less interest in social interaction. For example, individuals are able to speak complete sentences and participate in social communication, but they fail to communicate with others. Their efforts to make friends are strange and often unsuccessful. Behavior: inflexible behavior significantly affects the function of one or more situations. It's hard to switch between different activities. Organizational and planning difficulties impede its independence.

The second level of this type of children need strong intervention help in social communication: there are significant defects in verbal and non-verbal social communication skills; Even if there is support, there is obvious social damage; Limited use of social interaction; Abnormal response to social cues from others. For example, individuals can only speak a few simple sentences, interaction is limited to very narrow specific interests, and there are obviously strange nonverbal communication. Behavior: lack of flexibility in behavior and difficulty in coping with change; The limited repetitive behavior affects the function in different situations; It can be difficult to change attention or action.

The third level of this type of children need a very strong way of help and intervention. In terms of social communication, there are serious defects in verbal and non-verbal social communication, which lead to serious functional damage. Social interaction is rarely initiated, and there is no response to the social consciousness from the outside world and others. An individual can only speak a few words that he can understand, and rarely starts social interaction. When others want to interact with him, he often makes unusual actions to respond to each other and meet social needs. Behavior: the behavior lacks flexibility, and it is extremely difficult to deal with change. The limited repetitive behavior affects all aspects of functions. Changing behavior can be very difficult.

matters needing attention

Autism is a chronic disorder, which needs long-term or even lifelong treatment in terms of treatment. Therefore, compared with other diseases, autism is more harmful, and the prognosis of some autism is poor. About 2 / 3 of the children cannot live independently after adulthood and need lifelong care and maintenance. Therefore, it is necessary to timely standardize the treatment of autism and eliminate a series of factors that may affect the prognosis.