According to Ikeoluwa Lagunji, a pediatrician at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, and a team of scholars in a study published in Epilepsy and Behavior journal, Autism remains a major developmental disorder in children with increasing prevalence worldwide“The disease represents a wide continuum of associated cognitive and neuro-behavioural disorders, characterized by three core defining symptoms; namely deficits in socialization, deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, and...
“For the children that have come under us, quite a number of them have made commendable progress. We have had a situation where children with autism have grown up to become more functional. We have a case of a child who is now a professional photographer,” he said. According to Angela Frank-Briggs, Autism is treatable through early individualised, intensive behavioral and educational intervention.
Management should focus not only on the child but also on the family. Although parents once were viewed erroneously as the cause of a child’s ASD, it is now recognized that parents play a key role in effective treatment.
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