12 Reasons to turn to a child psychiatrist
Sunday, March 05, 2017
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Today, for a visit to a psychiatrist no one will call your child "stragglers", "abnormal", or simply "not like everyone else" - is the remnants of an uneducated and a notorious past. Find out in which cases should seek help from a specialist.
Over the past decade the world has increased the number of children with psychological development disorders, according to the article by Marina Frolova for promum.com.ua site. Many parents perceive it as a "problem of age period" and let it go, because many are still present fear of psychiatrists.
But while few people think that the problem of early detection increases the chances of a happy deliverance from it. See what features the child's behavior suggests that you need to make an appointment:
1. Missing or delayed speech development
Normally, the first words in children occur in a year and a half, and simple sentences - a year or two. If a child is not so, it is necessary to go to a specialist, when the first words appear in 6-10 months, and then one and a half or two years disappear, suspended or language development. You lose interest in toys, books, communication. Parents often miss this point, and in fact it is formed only in children under 5 years old.
2. Features in the early childhood period
Normal game - it's a knock, throwing, biting. Abnormal game - a twisting, rotating toys or objects. Scientists have discovered that babies up to a year normally prefer soft toys. Children with autism spectrum of solid prefer toys that are selected themselves without the help of parents.
3. Playing with ordering items
Children with autism spectrum disorders are building objects or toys in a chain or tower. The horizontal or vertical. They do it spontaneously. It is usually systematize them by size, color and shape (triangles, squares, circles).
4. The absence or lack of reaction to his name, human speech
A symptom of autistic disorder can be when a child pulls the handle to my mother, when she wants to take it to the crib, does not follow the parents.
5. Running or walking in circles
Children with autistic disorder of periodically go on tiptoe, running around in circles, whirling on the spot or have been running pendulum back and forth. It's not important frequency, because they say, "He does, but rarely," and an important fact. It is necessary to immediately start looking for a reason to sound the alarm, because usually there is not only a sign of this, there are others. Most children with the age of the symptoms go away, a part is modified.
6. Manipulation adult hand
The child takes the hand and uses it as a tool to help her get something, give him or made. In this case the children do not use speech and gestures. In fact, the use of arms as a tool - it is also a symptom of autism at an early age, which may eventually disappear.
7. Grimaces
A child like squints, grimaces before the mirror, In most cases it does it at a time when he is under stress or upset.
8. Selectivity in food
This is a condition when the child avoids some types of foods that it needs, either in color or texture, or smell. Often they do not like tough meat, fish, do not eat red or orange fruits or vegetables. This, too, signs of autism spectrum. To overcome them need to involve the child in the process of buying, cooking, but do it very gradually.
9. Excessive or reduced sensitivity to loud noises, bright lights, pungent smell, touch
These kids are sensitive to loud noises, cover their ears, sniffing objects or food, do not like the label on the clothes, spiky things. Also, children with autism spectrum disorders do not like to wash your hair, cut hair and fingernails.
10. Problems with communication
Such children can not find a common language with their peers. On the street a child next to the children, but not with them. He observes and tries to talk, wants to meet you, but do not know how. These children tend to play with older children, more often girls, are more tolerant, not banish it, take in a group and watch over. Or prefer to communicate with adults and children do not communicate.
11. Don't show interest in toys
Children are not interested in toys, materials and non-gaming: tools, kitchen utensils, plastic bottles, doors, closets, like buttons, panels, bottles of perfume, include - turning off the lights, pour the water.
12. Stubbornness, negativism and resistance to any change
Any change in the usual way, even a small, causes them stress and deterioration of mental state (become cranky, whiny, excitable, refuse to obey). For example, when changing clothes when sudden weather changes or sudden cancellation of planned activities such as going to the movies, the circus, to visit. With such a child, when it is necessary to go to the playground, always have to walk on the same road.
Over the past decade the world has increased the number of children with psychological development disorders, according to the article by Marina Frolova for promum.com.ua site. Many parents perceive it as a "problem of age period" and let it go, because many are still present fear of psychiatrists.
But while few people think that the problem of early detection increases the chances of a happy deliverance from it. See what features the child's behavior suggests that you need to make an appointment:1. Missing or delayed speech development
Normally, the first words in children occur in a year and a half, and simple sentences - a year or two. If a child is not so, it is necessary to go to a specialist, when the first words appear in 6-10 months, and then one and a half or two years disappear, suspended or language development. You lose interest in toys, books, communication. Parents often miss this point, and in fact it is formed only in children under 5 years old.
2. Features in the early childhood period
Normal game - it's a knock, throwing, biting. Abnormal game - a twisting, rotating toys or objects. Scientists have discovered that babies up to a year normally prefer soft toys. Children with autism spectrum of solid prefer toys that are selected themselves without the help of parents.
3. Playing with ordering items
Children with autism spectrum disorders are building objects or toys in a chain or tower. The horizontal or vertical. They do it spontaneously. It is usually systematize them by size, color and shape (triangles, squares, circles).
4. The absence or lack of reaction to his name, human speech
A symptom of autistic disorder can be when a child pulls the handle to my mother, when she wants to take it to the crib, does not follow the parents.
5. Running or walking in circles
Children with autistic disorder of periodically go on tiptoe, running around in circles, whirling on the spot or have been running pendulum back and forth. It's not important frequency, because they say, "He does, but rarely," and an important fact. It is necessary to immediately start looking for a reason to sound the alarm, because usually there is not only a sign of this, there are others. Most children with the age of the symptoms go away, a part is modified.
6. Manipulation adult hand
The child takes the hand and uses it as a tool to help her get something, give him or made. In this case the children do not use speech and gestures. In fact, the use of arms as a tool - it is also a symptom of autism at an early age, which may eventually disappear.
7. Grimaces
A child like squints, grimaces before the mirror, In most cases it does it at a time when he is under stress or upset.
8. Selectivity in food
This is a condition when the child avoids some types of foods that it needs, either in color or texture, or smell. Often they do not like tough meat, fish, do not eat red or orange fruits or vegetables. This, too, signs of autism spectrum. To overcome them need to involve the child in the process of buying, cooking, but do it very gradually.
9. Excessive or reduced sensitivity to loud noises, bright lights, pungent smell, touch
These kids are sensitive to loud noises, cover their ears, sniffing objects or food, do not like the label on the clothes, spiky things. Also, children with autism spectrum disorders do not like to wash your hair, cut hair and fingernails.
10. Problems with communication
Such children can not find a common language with their peers. On the street a child next to the children, but not with them. He observes and tries to talk, wants to meet you, but do not know how. These children tend to play with older children, more often girls, are more tolerant, not banish it, take in a group and watch over. Or prefer to communicate with adults and children do not communicate.
11. Don't show interest in toys
Children are not interested in toys, materials and non-gaming: tools, kitchen utensils, plastic bottles, doors, closets, like buttons, panels, bottles of perfume, include - turning off the lights, pour the water.
12. Stubbornness, negativism and resistance to any change
Any change in the usual way, even a small, causes them stress and deterioration of mental state (become cranky, whiny, excitable, refuse to obey). For example, when changing clothes when sudden weather changes or sudden cancellation of planned activities such as going to the movies, the circus, to visit. With such a child, when it is necessary to go to the playground, always have to walk on the same road.
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