Autism
Overview
There are a number of diseases around the world that can affect the various people, including autism, as the disease has spread in the present age among children more than others, especially between the ages of two to two and a half. The spread of male infection is higher than that of females.
According to US statistics, it was found that out of every 1,000 children, six were diagnosed with autism, and statistics showed that the number of cases of the disease was increasing steadily.

Autism affects child's life and his personality in addition to his behavior, his language, and the various social relationships that bind him to the surrounding society:
- The child suffers from difficulty in speech, and the weight of the tongue is noticeable.
- His response to things is slow, and he does not understand the things that surround him like; ringing the phone, knocking the door, or calling him.
- For an autistic child, his reaction to things is illogical. For example, when a loud voice is heard, he becomes convulsed or begins to scream.
- The child lacks of response to the voices of people he has known since his first months.

Autism symptoms
- Child preference to stay alone.
- The unwillingness to let others interfere in his grief.
- Not interested to play and talk with others.
- Rejecting and trying to avoid physical communication.
- Not understanding his feelings and feelings of others.
- Not responding to the call of his name from other people.

Autism therapy
1- Applied Behavior Analysis: (ABA) promotes positive child behavior, eliminates negative behaviors, and teaches the child new skills.
2- Speech Therapy: Speech therapy helps to strengthen the social communication of the child and enhance his / her ability to express his / her needs and wishes.
3- Physical therapy helps to teach the patient to perform major motor skills and improve sensory integration. Physical therapy is important in teaching and developing coordination, balance, walking and sitting skills.
4- Medications: The appropriate drugs are written by the physician to increase the benefit of other treatments used in the treatment of autism. These drugs relieve some of the troubled behaviors experienced by the sufferers.