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How to Identify Autism in Children, 1969, 21 min.
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Similar behavior is observed in healthy children.
In this video we watch two girls, sisters, 4.5 years and 18 months. Lucia Jr. is busy manipulating her clothes and body parts. She grimaces, expressing apprehension and fear. There is no activity between them. Even the only operator present in the room was deprived of attention.
The next girl shows partial, limited contact with adults. Please note that the child is addressing a part of the adult’s body, not his personality.
Let’s return to Lucia.
Let’s try to get her attention. It is not persistent, the child quickly “returns to himself.” Directed attention is completely absent.
Normally, children, even the most shy ones, always have reactions to the appearance of an adult, objects in their field of vision, a visual reflex with an adult bringing this object to the child. Including if the adult is unknown.
With Lucia it’s the other way around. There is no “you and I” interpersonal contact. This is called visual ignoring (avoidance).
Compared to autistic children, mentally retarded children demonstrate their need for attention in ways that are accessible to them.
Ambivalence.
Autistic children are deprived of voluntary activity due to ambivalence (Ambivalence (from Latin ambo — “both” and Latin valentia — “strength”) — duality of attitude towards something, especially duality of experiences, expressed in what the object causes in a person two opposite feelings at the same time.)
Lucy treats the shoe like it’s hot. She, eating with appetite, demonstrates aversion to food and is capricious.
William has fun with the same rhythmic hand movements. (Magical thinking). Transferred from the hands of the mother to a stranger, she expresses neither protest nor interest. She just resumes her monotonous tapping. His mom’s hair will attract her until she screams in pain. William sways. But this behavior is not pathognomonic for autism. Autistic children react to being hit and flirted with.
Lisa found a use for the item by mindlessly manipulating it.
In objects and especially in toys, these children are not interested in their purpose, but in their physical properties. The content of the game will be the performance of rhythmic movements by any toy.
Despite the fact that with age the repertoire of manipulations is streamlined, the manipulations with objects themselves will continue until they are stopped from the outside.
Alan’s attention is drawn to the ability of objects to rotate. The pleasure derived from this rotation will make him spin these objects again and again.
Unspoken symptoms of autism:
Impaired autonomic functioning
Tendency to “constancy” and hysteria in response to changes in surroundings, strangers,
selective deafness.
Pays attention:
Inability to make contact, even with mom,
Lack of visual communication
Manipulation of body parts with foreign objects,
Paradoxical emotional reactions
Pathological manipulation of a certain type of objects,
Predisposition to pleasant sensations
Uncontrollable manifestations of ambivalence,
Rotational stereotypes.
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