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Autism

Autism is a lifelong developmental disorder, the result of a neurological disorder affecting the functioning of the brain. This is usually diagnosed during the first three years of life. Autism is a disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to people around them. For many years autism occurred in about five children per ten thousand live births. However, since the early 1990’s, the rate of autism have increased enormously throughout the world, the rates have increased to as high as sixty children per every ten thousand births. There is no actually reasoning of why the rates have increased so much. Researchers seem to think that infants are over vaccinated.

People with autism are usually unable to play imaginatively with objects, toys, other children or adults. They tend to focus on minor or insignificant things around them, for example a wheel instead of the whole car. Some people might spend hours repeatedly flicking or flapping their fingers. “...

Posted by: Gelinde Cobbs

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