April for Awareness on AUTISM

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Autism is a very worthwhile cause, Pratim, and I applaud your sentiments in bringing it to public notice. Autistic children can be geniuses in their own right but are often sadly misunderstood.

Yes and thanks Ruth Dolan Maam ...

APRIL A MONTH TO CREATE AWARENESS ON AUTISM .... We need Elephant[huge] like initiative about this ... Olease share if you can ... Watercolour .... 7*6inch... Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior. Parents usually notice signs in the first two years of their child's life. These signs often develop gradually, though some children with autism reach their developmental milestones at a normal pace and then regress. The diagnostic criteria require that symptoms become apparent in early childhood, typically before age three. While autism is highly heritable, researchers suspect both environmental and genetic factors as causes. In rare cases, autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects. Controversies surround other proposed environmental causes; for example, the vaccine hypotheses have been disproven. Autism affects information processing in th