Another neurodevelopmental disorder is broad-spectrum autism that includes cases of different degrees associated with genetic and environmental factors, whose manifestation is variable, is identified in early stages -18 months and is consolidated at 36 months of age- will be present throughout the life course, specifically affecting communication and social interaction, such as behavior, with the presence of repetitive and restricted behaviors and interests, the evaluation must be multidisciplinary, it is important to detect it early in the child in order to improve social communication. This shows great heterogeneity ranging from mild personality modifications to severe disability. (Lara, 2012) the author makes reference that this term appears for the first time in the monograph Dementia Praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien written by Eugene Bleuler (1857 – 1939) for the Treatise on Psychiatry directed by Gustav Aschaffenburg (1866-1944) and published in Vienna in 1911. Leo Kanner, psychiatrist in 1943 published in Nervous Child the classic article Autistic disturbances of affective contact, adopting the term autism. (Roberto Chaskel & Maria Fernanda Bonilla) refer that autism derives from the Greek autt (o), which means that it acts on oneself and the suffix -ism, which means pathological process. So far there is no curative treatment for autism. (A. Hervás Zuñiga, 2017) The prevalence of ASD is higher in boys at 23.6 per 1,000 than in girls at 5.3 per 1,000 in the 8-year-old US population. The diagnosis of ASD is eminently clinical, the cause of the disorder is not known. According to (Claudia Talero-Gutiérrez, 2016) the subjects who suffer from this disorder tend to isolate themselves, this due to the difficulty of relating in a social environment and present clinical manifestations such as alterations in the development and organization of language, repetitive actions and change of mental judgment or cognitive flexibility.
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