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1. AUTISM AND HEARING LOSS Written By DR. P. SUMITHA HEMAVATHY (PT) Founder & Director - CAPAAR

2. ‘Autism spectrum disorder’ and ‘hearing loss’: conditions have become a usual problem in children. However, most of the time we consider these two health conditions the same. Although both comprise of similar symptoms in actual, these two are different conditions. these two completely In this blog, I’ll discuss how you will understand which of the condition between spectrum disorder’ ‘hearing loss’ your child is bearing with. ‘Autism and

4. As a parent, you must try to identify if your child has any of the two conditions or both. Early initiation of the treatment is always the best option for complete recovery. So I’ll suggest you look for symptoms in your child that includes, Minimal amount of eye contact. Delay in the development of social skills. Delay in language and speaking ability development. The tendency of social isolation. Difficulties while repeating other’s speech. All of these symptoms are common in the case of both hearing loss and Autism.

6. Sometimes a wrong diagnosis may make the ineffective. treatment It has been found that almost 40 percent of the patient with hearing problems have both the Autism spectrum and hearing loss.

7. So I’d suggest if you found that your child is not responding to sound stimuli as per their age, it’s always better to take your child to the audiologist at the earliest. However, this problem might onset at any age. To identify, if your child is having ASD look for the symptoms like,

8. Your child is getting irritated with touching. Any kind of disruption in their daily routine makes your child highly upset. Certain kinds lights, or texture make your child over sensitive. Look after your child’s self- harm while excited. In most of the cases child bang their head. Even your child might start repeating hand unnecessarily. He can sit or stand in some odd postures. Your child is taking himself in a corner or alone even at a social gathering. of sounds, getting over gesture

9. Depending on the condition, your audiologist might refer your child to the multidisciplinary team. Such a team contains psychological, development, development specialist. linguistic cognitive and

10. Nowadays, a hearing test is also done for newborn babies to detect any kind of hearing problem, however, for ASD it very hard to identify at this stage. Audiologists have to wait for the child’s special development. In some cases, it is found that the children with ASD develop hearing loss with aging if the ASD is left untreated. The most common intervention for the treatment of ASD and the hearing loss related to ASD includes assistive technology, occupational social skill training, and speech therapy. Presently, medication process applicable to the treatment of ASD. Hope you have earned a basic idea about ASD and hearing loss from this blog. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us therapy, there is no

11. Dr. P. Sumitha Hemavathy (PT) Founder & Director (CAPAAR) Centre for Advanced Pediatric And Adult Rehabilitation

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