Impact of misdiagnosed autism



Introduction3

Research problem statement5

Research Questions5

Significance of the Study5

Literature Review6

Methodology8

Literature Search10

Time Scale10

References12

Impact of misdiagnosed autism

Introduction

Disease of Autism is viewed as a universal problem in children that are suffering from numerous physical disabilities, or these children are observed of facing difficulties in communicating with surrounding peoples, and are disengaged toward broad range of routine activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Treatment of Autism is based on broad spectrum, mainly because children suffering from this disease contain numerous symptoms, and it is dependent on children physical and mental needs.

Normally Autism in children is also confirmed by their weakness non-verbal communication skills like, lack of eye contact, lack of facial expression, uneven or inappropriate body postures, and others. Moreover, Children treated with disease of autism, more often than not face problems in interacting with individuals, and in making friends (Begeer et al, 2009). On the other hand, children suffering from this disease also face severe behavioral issues, and severe sensory disorder.

In addition to this, growing process of these children become slowly, for instance, they are unable to speak any language at ease, or are observed of speaking in unusual patterns. Other than these problems, these children are mostly mesmerized with particular kind of toys, or are interested in some part of toys rather than playing with particular toys (Cashin & Barker, 2009). Moreover, numerous studies conducted on these issues aims to identify the common features of these children's like, common behavior patterns of children, their families, society, and problems face by this disease (Glasson et al, 2004).

However, over the years, medical professional has not able to identify common factors of occurrence of this disease, mainly because every child suffering from this disease contain different symptoms, and require medical profession to diagnose individual case using different procedures (Mulligan et al, 2009). Further, over the years, researchers have focused on analyzing the development and biochemical aspect of autism, and have exceptionally focused on the psychological factor that could easily influence the process of autism diagnosis (Levy et al, 2009).

Lack of psychological and emotional relationship in a family plays an important part in the upbringing of, and a child lacking of love and affection are mostly suffering from autism diseases. Moreover, autism in a child can be inherited from his mother experience with environmental surroundings, prior to giving birth to the child. Further, life style of mother, prior to conceiving also plays an integral part in damaging the mind set of young infant (Overton et al, 2007). In addition to this, in an advanced study conducted by (Glasson et al, 2004) disclosed that higher age of mother. Improper medication during the time of pregnancy, occurrence of trauma during the pregnancy, and inappropriate treatment procedure increases the probability of child suffering from autism disease.

Over the years, numerous cases have been reported where a children has been misdiagnosed by assuming it on the spectrum of autism, whereas, they did not meet the standard criteria of autism diagnosis. Moreover, these children were actually suffering from other disease, and ...