A 3-year-old who cancomprehend and nonverbally communicatebut can't say many words may have a speech delay. One who can say a few words but can't put them into understandable phrases may have a language delay. Some speech and language disorders involve brain function and may be indicative...
The article focuses on a 3-year-old boy with autism and speech delay who presented with general malaise and refusal to eat, leading to dehydration concerns. Topics include his clinical presentation with constipation and poor intake, his initial emergency room evaluation for dehydration, and his ...
Standardizedcalibrated severity scores(CSS), unlikeraw scores, provide a relative metric of the severity of autism-specific symptoms. A CSS has recently been developed for the ADOS-2 Toddler Module, which can be used in children aged 12–30 months. The utility of this new algorithm has yet ...
2014). It also suggests that subtler and serious forms of ASD are quite alike in the type of precursors, although there may be variations in the number and severity of symptoms, depending on the sample. However, 9/12 (75.0%) children in our general population sample had not received a ...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an abnormal condition of brain development characterized by impaired cognitive ability, speech and human interactions, in addition to a set of repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviours. Although no cure for autism exists, early medical intervention can improve ...