Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
The symptoms of OCD—such as compulsive hand washing, cleaning, or touching items like doorknobs—can resemble the repetitive motions of autism. People with OCD have a hard time keeping their focus off their obsessions, a phenomenon also shared by those with autism.
People with the BAP have some traits common to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but not enough to have the disorder. But it's not comedians who have drawn scientific scrutiny for having the BAP: it's the parents and siblings of people who actually have autism.
Hyperlexia is advanced and unexpected reading skills and abilities in children way beyond their chronological age. It is a fairly recently named condition (1967) although earlier descriptions of precocious reading do exist.
Kanner's Syndrome
This type of autism is also known as Classic Autistic Disorder, and its symptoms can include challenges communicating or understanding others, engaging in virtually no eye contact, and a hypersensitivity to stimuli (smell, light, noise, taste, or touch).
Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is a pattern of behavior in which kids go to extremes to ignore or avoid anything they perceive as a demand. Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is most often seen in people with autism.
While Rett syndrome may not officially be an ASD in the DSM-5, the link to autism remains. Many children are diagnosed as autistic before the MECP2 mutation is identified and then the diagnosis is revised to RTT. Autistic traits do occur, especially during the regression, and sometimes these traits do persist.
Hypernumeracy is known as 'hyperlexia but with numbers instead of letters' and is an advanced or self-taught ability to understand math and numbers in young children. It presents with an intense fascination with numbers, much like hyperlexia does with letters.
So although there are similarities, autism is primarily a social and communication disorder and dyspraxia is primarily a motor skills disorder. If your child has one of these conditions but you feel they also have other difficulties, you may think about further assessment.
The signs and symptoms of echolalia include rote repetition or imitation of words and phrases. Echolalia can be immediate, when an individual immediately repeats the speech of another individual, or delayed when an individual repeats another individual's speech after some time.
It is possible to be mildly autistic, but many of the behaviors and preferences found in people with autism are also common to people who do not have autism. The difference is that people with autism engage in these behaviors in different ways and for different reasons.
Of all the Autism Spectrum Disorders, Borderline Autism is one of the most complex developmental disorders to diagnose.
Unnoticeable signs of autism can be detrimental to a child's wellbeing when caregivers neglect to investigate further. People with autism can be given strategies and support that can help them work alongside their condition and be successful while still being completely and utterly themselves.
Since autism is less prevalent in females, autism was always thought to be passed down from the mother. However, research suggests that autism genes are usually inherited from the father.
ODD symptoms can look similar to symptoms of autism. This makes it doubly hard for a parent of a child with autism to know for sure if his/her child has ODD.
Active but odd: This group makes initiations and responds to others. They are interested in interactions and seek them out, but their ways of carrying out the interactions are unusual in their odd language, obsessive topics, and lack of understanding of others.
Ayres defined somatodyspraxia as a disorder of encoding a new, as opposed to a habitual, motor. response strategy. That is, clients with somatodyspraxia have difficulty learning new tasks, but. once learned and performed as a part of the client's daily life performance, the task can be. performed with adequate skill.
Problems with movement and co-ordination are the main symptoms of DCD. Children may have difficulty with: playground activities such as hopping, jumping, running, and catching or kicking a ball. They often avoid joining in because of their lack of co-ordination and may find physical education difficult.
Hyperlexia 3 consists of children who are likewise fascinated with letters and numbers. They may read all the names of items on the shelves in a supermarket or pharmacy. They have some 'autistic-like' symptoms such as unusual sensory sensitivity, echolalia, stimming, and obsessive-compulsive or repetitive behaviors.
Developmental issues – Developmental disorders are common in children who are hyperlexic and such developmental issues can include lower communication skills and behavioral problems. Lower comprehension – While hyperlexic kids excel at reading, they display lower than average ability to understand and comprehend.
Sanfilippo is the underlying cause for autism in children with this genetic abnormality. A diagnosis of Sanfilippo does not take away the autism diagnosis. If a child is diagnosed with autism, but the underlying cause of Sanfilippo is not recognized, this is considered to be a “incomplete” diagnosis.
Level 1 autism is the mildest form of autism, but it is still defined as needing support. Some people with level 1 autism have difficulty in a mainstream classroom due to sensory challenges and are more comfortable in a smaller class setting.
People with ASD often have problems with social communication and interaction, and restricted or repetitive behaviors or interests.