Autism: Warning Signs for its Detection

A Beginner's Guide

Autism is a disorder that affects language communication, interest in other people, and social relationships. In general, parents are the first to detect something going on. True, there are always exceptions and new parents who have no chance to compare with the development of other children. Almost all experts attach great importance to these first suspicions and intuitions.

Before the age of 12 months

• He seldom looks at people
• It does not show anticipation when it is going to be caught
• Lack of interest in simple interactive games like “cucu-tras” or “give and take”
• Lack of anxiety about strangers over nine months

After 12 months

• Less eye contact
• He doesn’t respond to his name
• It does not point to ask
• Does not display objects
• Unusual response to auditory stimuli
• Lack of interest in simple interactive games like “cucu-tras” or “give and take”
• Don’t look where others are pointing
• Absence of spontaneous imitation
• Absence of social/communicative babbling as if…