Wednesday, October 15, 2008

More about autism


In my last post, I mentioned six characteristics of autistic children that I noticed. Here there are a few more, vii) autistic children are sensitive to sound, they are allergic to loud voice or high pitch. E.g. One boy hates songs, he covers his ears with his hands, closes his eyes and feels extremely anxious whenever people are singing hymns during the assembly; viii) some write very neatly and some write in very big letters or Chinese characters; ix) they always show gestures of different patterns, moving their fingers is an obvious example (like the boy in 'Shining').
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