The frequency of autism is stabilizing in the United States

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Published the 03.01.2018 at 11: 10 am

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In France, the autism concern to hundreds of thousands of people, children and adults alike. The symptoms appear very early, but spend the most often overlooked. Therefore, the diagnosis is often made very late, too late ! On average, after the age of 3 or 4 years, and it delays all the support.
In the united States, the problem is of concern to the health authorities for a long time. It is necessary to have this concept in mind in order to understand the figures given by the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, January 2, and the stagnation of the frequency of the disease in the United States after a dramatic rise from 2000 to 2010. A rising concern of the health officials of this country, particularly as it did not seem to link with an obvious change of mode of life of the children or of pregnant women American. The assumptions, even the most hare-brained, had been studied, but there was no justification for this increase.

It seems that the explanation is more rational and mostly positive : The specialists of this disease, insisted a lot on the importance of early screening to assist in the insertion of these children in real life. Their message had been heard at the end of the 90’s and testing campaigns a lot more effective had been undertaken… And when we try, we find… Adage verified. The number of autism detected at first greatly increased, and now, quite naturally it stabilizes…. It is, therefore, in the screening that I play the first act of this disease and you can count on the associations of patients, which were very active in France, to find here an additional motivation for raising the awareness of public authorities.

There are different degrees of autism.

Autism, it is 3 categories of signs : difficulties to communicate, to establish social ties ; the children seem to be isolated in a kind of inner world. And behavior disorders are often difficult to analyze because all those you tell, gestures, repetitive, stereotypic, or the screams are real, but late
There has not, to this day, blood is taken or review of a radio, to screen for autism.
A council, however, which can lead to a fresh examination, the so-called Eye-tracking – analysing the eye movements, which allows you to see if the baby, in the face of an adult who speaks to him, looks at his mouth, his eyes, his nose, or the surrounding objects. If you find that your child avoids the gaze, if he has a behaviour that you experience as ” abnormal “, talk to your doctor. It may be asked for this test to be promising, which is still in the study.

A serious illness.

There is often impossibility almost total communicate. Today, there is no medication. On the other hand, many exercises to do, which delay the worsening, and may allow a better socialization.
It is too often insufficient, much to the chagrin of parents and their relatives who live can sometimes be a real ordeal due to the lack of appropriate structures to support school, educational, social and therapeutic to their children. One may be surprised that there is no clear rule and that the decision, for example, a school depends on the director or even the teacher. And it is all the more regrettable that the examples of successful integration are far more numerous than the failures, and that this can prove to be rewarding for everyone. However, associations of parents and professionals have been created to accompany people with autism and their families with support and educational support to families.
There are many autistic children who are of an intelligence very much above the average. The notion of repetition of the words or actions of which the cinema is extremely fond of – remember Rain man – is one of the characteristics ; This does not, unfortunately, having difficulty to communicate. And at a time where communication is everywhere, it is a serious handicap.

We don’t know the, or the causes, but it feels like it is approach because the chemistry of the brain reveals gradually its secrets. It is believed that autism is a disorder of early developmental stages of the brain.