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Autism is a developmental disability. Children with autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder or ASD, have social, communication and language problems. They also have restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, such as flipping objects, echolalia, or excessive smelling or touching of objects. Autism may be mild or severe. All children with autism don't have the exact same problems. Children with autism may have the following social and communication skills and common behaviors:

Social Skills

Your child may have problems using social skills to connect with other people. He may seem to be in his own world. It may be hard for him to

share a common focus with another person about the same object or event-known as joint attention;
play with others and share toys;
understand feelings;
make and keep friends.

Communication Skills

Your child may have trouble with communication skills like understanding, talking with others, reading or writing. Sometimes, she might lose words or other skills that she's used before. Your child may have problems

understanding and using gestures, like pointing, waving, or showing objects to others;
following directions;
understanding and using words;
having conversations;
learning to read or write. Or she may read early but without understanding the meaning—called hyperlexia.

Your child also may

repeat words just heard or words heard days or weeks earlier-called echolalia (pronounced ek-o-lay-le-a);
talk with little expression or use a sing-song voice;
use tantrums to tell you what he does or does not want.

Common Behaviors

A child with autism may

have trouble changing from one activity to the next;
flap hands, rock, spin or stare;
get upset by certain sounds;
like only a few foods;
have limited and unusual interests-for example, talk about only one topic or keep staring at one toy.

How is autism diagnosed?

It is important to have your child evaluated by professionals who know about autism. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs), typically as part of a team, may diagnose autism. The team might include pediatricians, neurologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and developmental specialists, among others. SLPs play a key role because problems with social skills and communication are often the first symptoms of autism. SLPs should be consulted early in the evaluation process. There are a number of tests and observational checklists available to evaluate children with developmental problems. The most important information, however, comes from parents and caregivers who know the child best and can tell the SLP and others all about the child's behavior.

Source: http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Autism/

 

 

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We are going to do this, but I don't want to "rush" it as I'd also like to invite other regions, perhaps the feeders and other GCRs, and a general open invitation to the rest of NS in the GP forums.

Is there an existing date for this kind of stuff, or we can just select any?

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Speaking as FA Minister of TWP, I will notify the Warzones; considering they were the first to start this campaign I believe it will be adequate to have them join.

And speaking as Sky Lord of Warzone Airspace, WZAI will participate.

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This was posted to all the other feeders:

TWP has decided to dedicate a week to Autism Awareness.

To do so, we will be Painting our WFE blue, and promoting dispatches with information and linking to Autism Awareness pages around the web.

The actually Autism Awareness Day was last April 2nd, and since we missed it, we were thinking of doing a full week, as of this coming Monday.

I'll be bringing more details these comming days, but we would love as many regions as possible to join us.

Please ask should you have any question!

BM: what flag should we use?

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Posted this in all FEEDERS and SINKERS

TWP would like to invite you all, members of [region][/region]

This awareness week was born as a request from one of our members, who wished autism to become more well known and understood!

For the following week, our WFE will remain painted blue, as we invite other fellow regions to join us in raising awareness for autism!

Upvote our dispatch:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=612049

Share with other fellow regions, or wear our Autism Awareness Banner (at the top of the dispatch)!!!

Raise awareness!

We also have a Gameplay thread for any discussion you wish to have about it:

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=374830

Thank you,

Elegarth

Delegate of The West Pacific

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