"Sister Liu, you said that our child is now three years old, people are very smart, but even the mother will not shout, I heard people say that this is estimated to be autism, I am particularly worried in my heart, and now I am particularly panicked."
"Did you take your child to do a test?"
"I just asked someone on the Internet, some people said it was autism, some people said it was language development delay, and I don't know what it is."
"I tell you, instead of worrying here, it is better to take your child to the big hospital for a check-up, and save you from worrying about it every day."
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In today's developed network and information interaction, we only need to move our fingers and tap the keyboard or screen to obtain a lot of information. Perhaps because of the convenience of the information age, many parents' first reaction after discovering their children's problems is to turn to the Internet.
However, this convenient way may also bring some misunderstandings, such as the mother who appeared earlier, although she has received the help of many netizens, she has also fallen into the fog of information confusion - is the child autistic or language delayed?
If we want to distinguish whether the problem with this child is autism or language delay, we must start from the difference between the two. When we analyze the differences in the causes and manifestations of the two problems, everyone should have a judgment.
Well, without further ado, let Yang Qingyu take you from the first aspect of autism and language development delay, that is, the causes of the two problems.
The causes of autism and language delay are different
Language development delay: In general, the causes of language development delay are divided into two categories in medicine, one is congenital damage, such as myelin development abnormalities, cerebral palsy, central nervous system development abnormalities, etc., so the problem of language development delay caused by such reasons is called pathological language development delay.
The second type is acquired language abnormalities, such as the family environment, family members, language environment, and errors and abnormalities in educational methods, so this type of language development delay is called simple language delay.
In general, the most commonly cited type of language developmental delay is simple, because pathological language development delay can mostly be found in small numbers after the birth of young children.
Autism: also known as autism, autism disorder, etc. Although the medical community currently considers heredity, pregnancy infection, and physical and chemical factor stimulation during pregnancy (taking drugs, alcoholism, etc.) as a wide range of disease factors, its cause has not yet been confirmed, and the specific pathogenic mechanism is still relatively mysterious.
Confusion by the public: Why the public is easy to confuse the causes of autism and language development delay, in fact, a large part of the reason is the developmental disorders of the central nervous system. Many people see that both have similar problems and take them for granted as a problem.
However, the 1980 issue of DSM-III. was the first to conclude that the central nervous system developmental disorders of children with autism are largely due to genetic factors rather than pathological factors, which is supported by molecular genetics, neuroimmune, functional imaging, neuroanatomy, and neurochemistry.
Do you now know the causes of autism and language delay? In fact, two seemingly identical problems are completely different in terms of root causes.
Manifestations of autism and language developmental delays are here:
Language delay:
1. Children with delayed speech have a lack of language comprehension and expression ability, and there is a risk of cognitive loss with age. 2. Children with late language learning speed are slow and their vocabulary is very poor.
3. Because they are hindered by language ability, their social skills are hindered, and there is essentially a need and impulse to socialize.
4. Normal personality, relatively healthy psychology, able to play with children normally.
autism:
1. Children with autism have qualitative defects in social interaction, and even in adulthood, they lack interest in basic social interaction and cannot establish normal love patterns.
2. Speech disorders, including abnormal speech forms and content, impaired speech use ability, and only relying on stereotyped and repetitive phrases for conversation.
3. Children with autism lack interest in the toys and games that children like in general, but are particularly interested in some items that are not usually used as toys, such as round rotatable things such as wheels and bottle caps.
4. Autistic children's behavior is relatively rigid, such as they often do things in the same way or play with toys, require items to be placed in a fixed position, go out to take the same route and so on.
Overall, the two have both commonalities and great differences. The common denominator of language delay and autism is that they all have different degrees of language disorders, but the performance of language disorders is also very different, for example, some children with autism have communication skills but have been entangled in a fixed topic.
At last
You should already know the causes and manifestations of autism and language delay by now, right? Now do you know which problem caused the child at the beginning?