Is it Possible the Problem With Your Child is Autism?

Autism is not like cancer, where there are fewer controversies surrounding whether one should select embryos who will never suffer from cancer.
That is because autism is not a disease, and need not lead to suffering, and with enough accommodation by society, people with autism can be free of suffering.
Autism is thought by the scientific community to be of genetic origin.
Autism is a profound developmental disability that can severely impair a child's abilities.
Students with autism have unique abilities and needs which require special considerations in designing, implementing and evaluating their educational programs.
Autism is diagnosed on the basis of abnormalities in the areas of social development, communicative development, and imagination, together with marked repetitive or obsessional behaviour or unusual, narrow interests .
Individuals with autism may have an IQ at any level.
Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that includes a wide array of symptoms.
We do not know the cause of autism and we have no cure.
Autism is believed to be a neurological and sensory disorder; autistic children do not perceive and relate to the rest of the world in the same way as other children.
Temple Grandin, an autistic who gained a PhD in animal behavior as an adult, has written of her life with autism in Thinking in Pictures .
Autism is characterized by three distinctive behaviors.
Autistic children have difficulties with social interaction, display problems with verbal and nonverbal communication, and exhibit repetitive behaviors or narrow, obsessive interests.
Autism is no longer attributed, as it once was, to lack of affection in the child's mother.
Autism is most commonly diagnosed at 20 to 36 months, but experts say the signs often surface earlier.
Many families experience delays because pediatricians often dismiss their concerns.
Autism is not caused by an unhappy home environment, both parents working, mental stress during the pregnancy, poor handling by the mother, an emotional trauma, or other psychological factors.
You cannot cause a child to become autistic.
Autism is frightening, and parents want to find a reason for it.
This is also the time when children may start to show signs of autism.
Autism isn't a lack of social behavior, it's an inability to learn social behavior at all.
Autistic's aren't able to socialize as "normal" people are able to.
Autism is multivariate in presentation and cure.
The disease bows to the collective weight of doctors working with therapists working with educators working with researchers working with parents working to recover their children.
Autism is more common than Down syndrome and cerebral palsy combined.
There are over half a million people with autism in the UK.