April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. Autism, also known as autism, often shows defects and disorders in social communication, language communication, hobbies and behaviors, showing lack of interest in social interaction, poor communication skills, difficulty understanding non-verbal information, repetitive behavior and obsessive behavior.
The cause of autism is currently unclear, but it is generally believed to be related to complex factors such as genetics, neurodevelopment, and environment, and is not "one" disease, as most people think, and closer to the facts, autism is "a class of diseases", the aggregation of many people with similar symptoms.
This situation also increases the difficulty of autism rehabilitation, because the successful experience of case A may not have a direct promotion and improvement effect on case B.
In the end, each case may be "unique", because autistic people behave and think differently from ordinary people, and sometimes show a sense of disconnection from the real world, as if from another planet, so autistic children are called "children from the stars".
In China, there are statistics that autistic children account for about 0.6% of the total number of children. Moreover, this data is based on the fact that many children with autism have not been discovered and diagnosed. For Chinese society and families, the rehabilitation, treatment and correction of autistic children have always faced great challenges.
Many parents are very concerned about whether autism can be "cured". If "cure" is equated with the "cure" referred to in medicine, that is, the patient no longer has autism, resulting in the complete disappearance of the abnormal structure or defect of the brain physiology of autism, then, from the known domestic and foreign research and clinical information, autism cannot be completely cured.
However, early intervention and treatment can significantly improve patients' quality of life and symptoms. This early intervention can include behavioral therapy, speech therapy, social skills training, etc.
However, if "cure" is understood as whether it can be better integrated into social life, independent or semi-independent life, then many patients after long-term unremitting training and correction, there are indeed many patients, able to achieve self-care, or even independent life and show a good state of development. Practice has proved that after early correct and persistent intervention, many autistic children are able to integrate into society and live independently.
Therefore, autistic families must keep their eyes open in the face of the propaganda of autism intervention institutions, which use so-called high-tech institutions that can completely cure autism, basically either pure fraudsters or make family members pay IQ taxes. Those formal, systematic, systematic, according to different age stages, the development of different types of behavioral training institutions, relatively reliable.
We can also see that some mild or individual severe autistic people can also engage in more complex work after going to college, but this does not mean that all autistic people can have such a good prognosis.
Even these patients, who seem to be recovering and integrating well into society, can still feel that their behavior shows typical traces of "autism" under the assessment of professional experts, but this no longer has the obstructive power to isolate them from social life.
Therefore, the best support for children with autism and their families is to help them choose their own way of life and work and better integrate into society.