in this video I'll be showing you five ways you can identify Asperger symptoms
in children fast coming right up hey I'm Dan I have Asperger's syndrome ADHD OCD
and dyslexia I make weekly videos on autism and Asperger's so if you want to
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that's what we're gonna' be covering in this video and before we get started on
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Asperger's syndrome Asperger syndrome is a neurological disorder that is
characterized by the fact that I impact some social and communication abilities
the triad of impairment and if you want to learn more about Asperger's syndrome
and autism I will leave some links in description to below two other videos of
mine and in the cards above so you can check them out okay so 5 ways that you
can identify Aspergers Symptoms in children number 1 endless chatter about
a specific topic now everybody with Asperger's syndrome has a main topic of
interest which is crazy crazy good so as an adult you may see them being obsessed
with something like for me I'm obsessed with like aliens and like SEO and
optimization and things and I love just nerding out over systems so that's like
my specific interest but a kid may be really interested in Minecraft of
Pokemon or Thomas the Tank Engine or something that they they just really
like just submerge themselves in and they they become almost obsessed with it
and it's like their their main focus in life and they'll talk about it non-stop
so one of the things that children with Asperger syndrome try it tend to do is
that they'll just talk at you about that subject of interest just constantly and
it's really difficult to know for them when they're gonna stop because you
don't know when they're gonna stop and they don't have that social
characteristic in them to say okay well so for too long now I'm gonna stop
talking so I don't bore people because that boundary isn't there so that's
something very very interesting to look out for so number two is a delay in
pointing out object for to show joint attention so usually a typical
development of a child about 1 years old they should be able to point out four
objects for joint attention but for a child with Asperger syndrome they won't
be able to do this maybe is what the case is it's
typically what they won't do until it I don't know maybe two or three years old
you know something that is delayed and the delay can vary in this frequency of
what age they start to do this but there will be definitely a delay there
so I'll just look out for kind of any signs that if your pediatrician or the
the doctor says that these are typical kind of development ages and you're not
hitting those stage targets then maybe this is something to consider that it
could be Asperger's symptoms in your child or the person who you are trying
to query so number three is a delay in developing motor skills so these could
be like riding a bike walking catching you know all these things playing catch
in the garden and and usually people with Aspergers syndrome have a delay in
these but by the time they're about three or four years old that delay
should start to kind of disappear and they should then start to kind of be
able to learn to ride bikes and stuff but the coordination thing is a massive
thing sometimes it's comorbid with things like dyspraxia and dyslexia these
can affect the condition as well because it's comorbid it comes with it
as part of a package sometimes in some individuals and it's quite common that
this does happen so that it'll affect the balance of the person that can
affect their hands and feet coordination so riding a bike and playing catch and
catching things could be difficult so again this is a really interesting one
to spot if you notice this as well again if you're taking off characteristics like a
checklist then you know that's how you're gonna know I did a video on
autism and parenting and if you really want to see that I'll leave it in a link
up here or in the description below so that you can watch that video okay so
number four is a lack of eye contact now this is one of the things that everybody
on the autism spectrum as far as I'm aware have some kind of difficulty with
some more than others but it's still a difficulty difficulty is maintaining eye
contact which is looking directly into somebody else's eyes this is a huge
issue for me and I'm adult on the spectrum and it was a huge issue for me
when I was a child on the spectrum and the the interesting part is that it
doesn't seem to - you don't seem to grow out of it it's always something that you
have but it's very apparent in children so when children don't make eye contact
this is another way that you can really tell up maybe there they may have an
autism spectrum condition in conjunction with the other ones and maybe it's a way
of leading to a conclusion but eye contact is super difficult another thing
I'll say is try not to force the child to make that contact it's very very
uncomfortable disturbing for the person so that if they are feeling distressed
by making eye contact don't try and force it just try and get them to to you
know learn to want to look into people's eyes up the best way to do it really so
number five is understanding body language now so number five is unusual
body language or body movements and this is be characterized probably the best
way to characterize this is toe walking or walking on your tiptoes a lot of
children who are on the spectrum will do this and you'll see them walking on
their tiptoes I'm not entirely sure the reason for this it could be a sensory
issue where they're walking barefoot then the sensation of the foot on the
actual floor may be too overpowering so that's why they walk in the tiptoes this
would be more less sensitive this is definitely something to look out for and
I know loads of people who still walk on their toe walking and walking her
tiptoes as adults on the spectrum but I do know that a lot of children and most
children with the autism spectrum disorders especially Asperger syndrome
will have this characteristic okay so I know I was only gonna do five but I
always do this this is a bonus one for you and I always
like to give a bonus one right at the end so you feel like you'd gain from
this video this one is number six and number six is enjoys repetitive action
now enjoying repetitive actions is amazing for people with Asperger
syndrome now repetitive actions are things like
lining up toys are repeating the same thing or eating the same thing over and
over again or having the same motor movement over and over again routine is
something that people with Asperger's syndrome absolutely love and they thrive
off and having a repetitive pattern to something like lining up all your toys
are displaying them in lines creating lines out of things playing with leg
over making blocks and blocks and blocks of walls that's super super cool playing
with Minecraft and just making super straight lines or super tall buildings
and Minecraft this is something again which is awesome
maybe it's eating the same food every single day maybe it's repeating the same
word over and over again maybe they like the
sound of the word and this is a repetitive action which is always common
with people with Asperger's syndrome and people with an awesome inspection
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