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Autismo Ako.
 DEFINITION

complicated condition that includes problems

with communication and behavior

Autism or Autism
Spectrum Disorder

Source: WebMD
 COMMON SIGNS / SYMPTOMS
• Avoiding eye contact
• Delayed speech and communication skills
• Reliance on rules and routines
• Being upset by relatively minor changes
• Unexpected reactions to sounds, tastes, sights, touch and
smells
• Difficulty understanding other people’s emotions
• Focusing on or becoming obsessed by a narrow range of

Autism or Autism interests or objects

• Engaging in repetitive behavior such as flapping hands or
Spectrum Disorder rocking
• Children not responding to their name by 12 months
• Children not pointing at distant objects by 14 months

Source: Ada
 • Asperger's syndrome - A person with Asperger's
may be very intelligent and able to handle his/her
daily life
• Pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise
specified (PDD-NOS) - This mouthful of a
diagnosis included most children whose autism
was more severe than Asperger's syndrome, but
not as severe as autistic disorder.
• Autistic disorder - This older term is further

Types of Autism along the autism spectrum than Asperger’s and

PDD-NOS. It includes the same types of
symptoms, but at a more intense level.
 • Childhood disintegrative disorder - This was the
rarest and most severe part of the spectrum that
described children who develop normally and
then quickly lose many social, language, and
mental skills, usually between ages 2 and 4

Types of Autism

Source: WebMD
 Source: Autism Speaks
In 2018 the CDC determined that approximately 1 in 59
children is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder
(ASD).

1 in 59
CH ILD REN I N T HE W O RL D

AUTISM BY THE NUMBERS

 Source: Autism Speaks

31% of children with ASD have an intellectual disability

(intelligence quotient [IQ] <70)

31%
CH IL DREN WI TH AS D

AUTISM BY THE NUMBERS

 Source: Autism Speaks

Boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism

than girls

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N UM BER O F T IM ES

AUTISM BY THE NUMBERS

 Source: Autism Society Philippines

1 in 100
F ILI PI NO S W IT H A SD

AUTISM BY THE NUMBERS

 • Proclamation 711 of 1996 - Philippine National Autism
Consciousness Week was made possible by Former
President Fidel Ramos in inspiring acceptance,
accommodation and appreciation of persons on the autism
spectrum in society
• The activities of the week promote action by both public
and private sectors towards embracing persons on the
autism spectrum to live with dignity, enjoy equal rights and
access, function independently and contribute productively.

National Autism
Consciousness Week
2020

Source: Autism Society Philippines

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