Symbolic Interaction Theory

Any diagnosis of a disorder that affects a child within their first stages of development, brings forth stressors to a family unit. Parents want to have strong healthy offspring, but when something goes awry, and a child is not meaning benchmark set forth, parents fall into a disarray of a motions that they may have not felt before. Thus, the nuclear family emotional process comes to the surface.
When looking at an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) of a child, this process is long and drawn out on a family. With ASD the weighting factors that come over a family are very detrimental to a family's wellbeing. ASD has no known cure at this time. According to Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM), 1 in 68 children have been
Symbolic interaction theory is a thought on how people are able to exercise the cognitive factors necessary for successful interaction with each other. As in recognition of self and others, situated interpretation, inferring others’ cognitive and emotional states of mind, anticipating what others might say or do, empathizing, maintaining a cogent belief system, so far and so on. Thus, with ASD there is no executive functioning or theory of mind. Theory of mind is a thought of, “investigates how we ascribe mental states to other persons and how we use the states to explain and predict the actions of those other persons. More accurately, it is the branch that investigates mindreading or mentalizing or mentalistic abilities.”(Marraffa) Executive functioning, “is an umbrella term for functions such as planning, working memory, inhibition, mental flexibility, as well as the initiation and monitoring of action.”(Chan) With this ASD people do not pick up on the hidden rules of society. As in if someone is looking at their watch and is look at the exit often when you are talking to them they may want to leave the place. Also, now there are natural pauses in conversations with others ASD people will miss those pauses. With ASD children miss social cues that are learned at a young age. Body language and body posture are misinterpreted on how someone else is feeling. Other than facial expressions, body language and posture are the main non-verbal social cues that people use. Thus, with an ASD person not picking up on the social cues family have a hard time understand what is going with a child. A mother I know that her son has ASD had a hard time with that her son never said the word love. Love is a word that one can not explain the word come with feeling as in beloved or understanding that someone loves you. But, with ASD there is no understanding of this, love is a