People with autism are so committed to routine activity that when faced with change or inconsistency they can experience great anxiety. ... People with autism seem to be locked into rigid understandings of the world, and unable to accommodate the give and take of normal conversational interaction. ... (3) Impaired Make-believe Play Research shows that people with autism are generally unable to participate in normal peer interaction unless carefully taught how to do so in a controlled environment (Haring and Lovinger 1989; Henning, Dalrymple, Davis and Madeira 1982). ... In some high-funct...

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" As they become adults they may find the routines and "rituals" of other adults without Autism to be illogical. Some adults on the lower end of the Autism spectrum can live normal lives, although most people with autism need some form of help or care throughout their lives. ... Children with certain medical disorders have a higher than normal risk of being affected by autism. ... Most children show signs of autism during infancy, although some may develop like normal children and then suddenly show signs of the disease. ... Most can eventually lead normal or nearly normal l...

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Autism interferes with the normal development of the brain in the areas of reasoning, social interactions and leisure activities. ... Autism affects the normal development of the brain in the areas of social interaction and communication skills. ... They may exhibit repeated body movements, such as hand flapping or rocking, unusual responses to people or attachments to objects and resistance to changes in routines. ...

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Some children will become obsessive about patterns such as meals and routines, or even which routes they ride along to school. ... Also if a sibling has ASD, then the other siblings have 35 times the normal risk of also having ASD. ... Some of these include: Focused learning activities at the proper level for the child for at least 25 hours a week year round, special training for the family, providing a large amount of structure, routine, and well labeled boundaries for the child, encouraging beneficial activities with typically developing children, and measuring and recording the child's...

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" The second criterion states "Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, as manifested by at least two of the following; stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech, insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns or verbal nonverbal behavior, highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus, hyper- or hypo reactivity to sensory input or unusual interests in sensory aspects of the environment (DSM-V, 2013).... " The adolescent's level of understanding has...

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