| The Asperger syndrome affects children and | | | | disorders is to interact with the persons around |
| adults patients by modifying their communication | | | | the. They hardly ever make and sustain an |
| skills and making them unable to interact with the | | | | eye-contact, resist cuddling, reject any form of |
| persons around them. The autistic disorder in | | | | affection and never look for it, cannot stand being |
| most cases associates the lack of communication | | | | kissed, have difficulties in making friends and are |
| skills with learning disabilities. | | | | mostly unable to play with children their age. |
| The Asperger syndrome is an autistic disorder | | | | Autistic patients are not able to understand |
| related to autism but with less symptoms or less | | | | emotions coming from other persons and have |
| serious modifications. The pure autism is rare, | | | | problems with obeying simple rules; this leads |
| about one case in 5000 children and it occurs four | | | | them to the incapacity of frequenting a regular |
| times more often in male children than in girls. | | | | school. |
| Autistic spectrum disorders are all conditions | | | | Patients show an obsessive interests for |
| implying symptoms related to the manifestations | | | | repetitive actions and might look at an object fro |
| of autism. | | | | an increased period of time. They have no |
| The exact cause of autism cases is still unknown | | | | imagination and are not interested in imaginative |
| to scientists but researchers have detected a | | | | play. The games are almost the same every day |
| possible link between the condition and a genetic | | | | and usually match with playing methods used by |
| factor without any actual pattern of inheritance. | | | | younger children. The ability to communicate with |
| Autistic modifications are blamed on brain | | | | others is disturbed, cannot keep a conversation |
| damages and abnormal development before birth, | | | | and cannot use words in meaningful sentences. |
| during childbirth or after birth. | | | | Regular actions like walking, sitting up or down will |
| The first signs of an autistic disorder appear soon | | | | be later acknowledged and assimilated than |
| after birth in severe cases but usually between | | | | normally. All patients with autistic disorders tend to |
| the age of 3-4 when parents observe abnormal | | | | be clumsy and struggle the games lessons at |
| modifications in the child's behavior. There are | | | | school. Older patients develop obsessive interests |
| three main symptom groups involved in autism | | | | for exact timetables and resist changes in their |
| and patients with the Asperger syndrome have | | | | environment. They rapidly become agitated and |
| only some of these signs, unlike the children with | | | | angered if their routine is modified. Autistic children |
| actual autism who suffer from disorders from all | | | | are extremely sensitive noise and light and might |
| of the three symptoms groups. | | | | show severe responses. |
| The main difficulty of children with autistic | | | | |