In the year of 2005 I was blessed with my second child's birth. Each day that passed I noticed that my son was demonstrating a different behavior. Before my sons first year, he was constantly repeating the same movements which were flapping his legs up and down. He would cry for hours and had a lack of sleep. He started to say "Mamá" and "Papá" at the age of two. He had difficulty to express himself and would constantly throw his bottle when he was finish. Later that same year he started to learn a few words using English as his first language instead of his native Spanish. This was a real controversy at school with his educators and his social interaction with children of his same age. By him preferring English his teachers thought he had difficulty in learning and because he didn't comprehend the concepts in Spanish. His interaction with children of his same age was being affected, because they couldn't understand him and he preferred to play alone.
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old.
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