Category Autism

Motherhood and raising a child with autism is atypical. It is not found in any book or magazine that you can buy in a kiosk on the street. It is not a maternity ward that pediatricians or midwives tell you about. Everything is to be written and told, that is why in Guianfantil.

Some days, sitting down to watch the news is depressing, because everything is about deaths, massacres or wars, but today has been different because among some misfortunes a news has emerged that shows you that there are still good people in this world. This is the story of a touching note from a stranger to a mother with a child with autism that will make you smile.

We know that one of the main limitations that some children with autism may present is linked to communication and language, either because they present it partially (they speak little) or it is absent. So today, we want to show you some techniques to teach letters and colors to children with autism and thus improve their learning.

Despite the diversity of its clinical characteristics, within the autism spectrum there are relatively constant elements in many of the people diagnosed with the condition of autism, mainly in the aspects of social interaction, flexibility - imagination, repetitive movements or sounds.

More and more children are being diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. According to recent studies, 1.6 of the child population is affected. This increase is due to several factors. The main ones are the broadening of the diagnostic criteria (now even the mildest cases are included) and the instability of the diagnosis (children who show warning signs of ASD before the age of 3 years, later, when they grow up, do not meet the basic criteria of diagnosis).