Autism Spectrum Disorder Analysis

The purpose of this essay is to analyse Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); specifically, children that have being diagnosed with High Functioning Autism (high IQ), what challenges they have to face, such as school, teachers and their skills, bulling, depression and anxiety; briefly discuss the reason why this disorder has been increasing in Australia; the integration of these people to the labour life and which responsibilities are with these children as a society.

The word autism is from Greek word ‘autos’ that means ‘self’. Autism was first diagnosed by psychiatrist Dr Kranner in 1943, ADS is definite as “A neurological (brain) disorder which disrupts normal child development in the first few years of life, but sometimes diagnosis cannot be
The school is the greatest creator of anxiety and depression” (Autism, Anxiety and school functioning), (Autism CRC), since these children do not feel comfortable with the changes, they need always a routine, in the case of one teacher is replaced by another, this can cause a lot of anxiety in a child with ASD. One of the major problems for the school community is that, these children look like any other one, so their peers do not notes anything unusual in them, until they start changing their behavior unexpected, for example: stopping communicating with their classmates, they become more concentrate in one thing in particular (Interests that only draws attention to them); get better in some subjects and poor academic in others, misunderstandings that lead to be isolated from the rest of their peers, which can trig to bullying and that can carry to mental health issue. Some teachers begin to be astonished as they notice changes in the child's behavior suddenly; which sometimes they do not know how to react or they don’t know how to deal with it, due lack of training; this causes absenteeism and suspensions. (O’Reilly & Wicks pp168 to 194). High Functioning Autism for a child is only detected between 12 and 14 years of age, not so for children with Asperger’s syndrome who can be diagnosed at 4 years of age. (Autism CRC p11). The school or the access to the education is one of the primordial rights of each individual of this society, this is a very important step for this children with ASD, it is essential that the they succeed at school; because a good foundation and academic support means that these children feel much more confident in their specific abilities and this leads to a definite success in life. (Australian Autism Educational Needs Analysis)(Autism