Level of Autism - How Autistic Is Your Child?
How autistic is your child? It is very difficult to answer this question. It is not only the cause that is hard to determine but also the objective measure of how severe the autism is in an individual child.
Usually, a person is mildly autistic if he or she possesses normal intelligence. However, even people who have normal intelligence may also have many symptoms of autism and appear very autistic. There are also other people who score lower on the intelligence tests but have fewer symptoms and have milder forms of the autism spectrum disorder or ASD. At this very moment, we still don't have the answer or nor do we have any objective way of determining the level of autism in a person. Only time could tell. Moreover, autism should be viewed developmentally and as a lifetime disorder. In monitoring a person with autism, long term planning and periodic reassessments are needed. You can also alter their programs if necessary.
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