However, there is no way to prevent savant syndrome. Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder of children, characterized by improvised communication, excessive rigidity, and emotional detachment Autism is usually diagnosed in children between the ages of 18 months and 4 years. Savant syndrome comes in many forms. Mild autism is called Asperger’s syndrome, and usually affects children in their social development. Severe autism can cause children to function at very low levels, including no speech, unable to toilet train , and have violent outbursts.
The frequency of the tics is known to fluctuate and include eye blinking, twitching, grunting, and head shaking. (Phelps, 2008) The afflicted often will have social inappropriateness, trouble with the law, coprolalia, and copropraxia (Channon et al, 2009). Both types of tics must be present in order to diagnose the person with Tourette’s. If only one symptom is present, the patient’s disorder would be diagnosed as either chronic motor or visual tic disorder. Tics may occur from one to a thousand times per hour (Friedman, 1980).
Introduction Not many experiences match the tragedy of a convulsive seizure. A person having a relentless and unremitting seizure may shed tears, yell out, fall to the floor comatose, convulse or jerk nonstop, salivate, or even lose control of their bladder. Within a few minutes, the seizure is over, and the person becomes conscious but is exhausted and confused. This is the picture most people have when they hear the word epilepsy. However, this type of seizure -- a grand mal seizure -- is only one kind of epilepsy.
Even from a few months old they will smile and engage with their carer and by four months can vocalise by ‘babbling’ and ‘cooing’. From six months old an infant will become more interested in social interaction, although that depends on the amount of time spent with other children and his/hers personality, they will also have a fear of strangers and distress at the separation of a parent or carer. By the time they are nine months old an infant can recognise familiar and unfamiliar faces. From one year ‘temper tantrums’ may have begun. They become more demanding and assertive and can express rage at being told ‘no’, they have no idea of sharing and a strong sense of ‘mine’.
3. What are the symptoms? The clinical symptoms of cri du chat syndrome usually include a high-pitched cat-like cry, mental retardation, delayed development, distinctive facial features, small head size (microcephaly), widely-spaced eyes (hypertelorism), low birth weight and weak muscle tone (hypotonia) in infancy. The cat-like cry typically becomes less apparent with time. 4.
Definitions: * Growth: Growth is the process of something developing mentally or physically, as well as, something increasing in physical size. It is a process of something increasing in size. For example: a child may show signs of physical growth as they get older, these may include; getting taller and bigger. As well as this, a baby may show signs of growth mentally as they mature into a toddler and begin to talk and walk. * Development: Development is the process of growth or progress.
According to Brant, W. (2007) “Patients may present with virtually any neurologic defect, but they most commonly present with limb weakness, paresthesia, vertigo, and visual or urinary disturbances”. A lot of times the initial symptoms are “sensory disturbances, weakness, visual loss, abnormal gait, diminished dexterity, diplopia, ataxia, vertigo, or sphincter disturbances” (Brust, J. 2012). There can also be other more general symptoms such as malaise, fatigue, or headache caused by the initial disruption in the CNS (Brust, J. 2012).
Culturally – how people bring up their children can differ vastly, some cultures/religions expect their children to devote huge amounts of time to prayer, giving them less time to read/study. In other cultures, girls are valued less than boys so aren’t given the same opportunities to learn and develop. Social reasons – children which are born in to poverty and families whose parents are separated can have negative effects on the child’s development. A family may give less time to activities, which aid children’s development, such as a lack of play. Learning difficulties – children may have these due to genetic diseases, birth difficulties or cognitive difficulties.
Vasocongestion also causes swelling of breasts and nipples, testes, and the earlobes, because of dilation of blood vessels. Additionally, both males and females may experience myotonia, tension of the muscles in the face, hands and feet, as well as orgasms. The excitement phase also elicits flushing of skin, erection of nipples in both males and females, and increased heart rate and blood pressure (Nevid & Rathus, 2005). The second phase of the sexual response cycle is the plateau phase. In this phase, the state of sexual arousal is fairly steady.
There is an increased incidence of emotional and physical damage even if the divorce is low-conflict. Problems persist into early adulthood and affect the marriage and mating choices of children of divorce (Crouch, 2006). These differentials mostly are not accounted for by other variables such as parents' incomes. On the other hand, most children of divorce turn out fine without serious problems that