Pay attention to the baby’s facial sounds and expressions. Typical babies normally smile, expressing happiness, and begin babbling by 7 months. Notice how the kid reacting to sensory stimuli. Autistic kids might get overstimulated easier way and react strongly to newest textures or smells.
Noted the baby’s facial expression.
By 7 months old, typical babies expressed smile and happiness.
• A baby’s initial smile often occured even before 3 months.
• If a baby did not follow up objects with its eyes by 3 months, this can be a very earlier indicator of autism.
• Observing their another facial expressions.
• By 9 months old, babies communicated with others by display out some expressions like grimacing, pouting and grinning to fit the mood.
Notice when babbling started.
Babies that developed typically would babble by the time they are 8 months old. The noise may not making any sense. It is common for babies to do out repetitive sounds, but autistic babies would making different rhythms and sounds. By seven months, non-autistic kids were able to laugh and making squealing sounds.
Consider when your kid began speaking.
Some autistic kid experiencing a delay in speaking, or never learned to speak at all. Around 15-20% of autistic persons never speak although this did not meant they do not communicate. By one year, non-autistic kid were able to say single words like Dada and Mama.
Check the child’s response to play and language.
An autistic kid might not responded to their own name or ignoring play with others.
• By 7 months, a typical kid responds to plain games like peekaboo.
• A non-autistic kid responds to its own name at about 2 year old.
• By age two, non-autistic kid would imitate your actions and words.
Examined the child’s movements.
Babies would reach for objects typically by 8 months of age. Placing a toy out of your kids reach to see if he would reach for it. Babies as young as 8 months old would try to attract the attention with motion. Autistic kids might be less active. If your kid had not started to walk or crawl by 12 months, this was the very sincere developmental disability.
Observe the kids interaction with others.
Autistic child might not developed friendships with peers. They might need to form friendships but not know how, or they might not really care. They sometimes struggle with reacting to others’ emotions or understanding.
Notice the kids nonverbal communication.
Autistic kids might felt uncomfortable with the eye contact.
• They might having a flat facial expression, or exhibited exaggerated experiences.
• Autistic kids might not understand or responding to other’s non-verbal cues.
• Autistic persons might not using gestures or having trouble interpreting when others use gestures.
• Autistic kids often don’t point to objects or responded to others pointing.
Determine whether the child had passionate special interests.
Fascination with one subject, like license plates or computer games, might indicated autism. Autistic persons became fascinated with specific subject zones, studying them passionately and sharing out information with anyone who would listen (enthusiastically or not). Pay attention to how the child reacting to sensory stimuli. Many autistic kids having Sensory Processing Disorder, a condition in which their senses might be hyposensitive or hypersensitive.
Keep watch to another symptoms.
Autism is the complex disability that effects every human differently. Here are certain examples of symptoms that some autistic persons have-
• Hyperactivity (this mighty come and go)
• Impulsivity
• Short attention span
• Aggression
• Self-injury
• Temper tantrums or meltdowns
• Unusual sleeping habits or eating
• Unusual mood or emotional reactions
• Lack of fear or extreme fear of harmless circumstance