Autism Symptoms
Checklist
Are you concerned your child may have autism?
Here are some signs you can look for:
- Not responsive to verbal cues; acts as deaf
- Little or no eye contact
- Prefers to be alone; aloof manner
- Difficulty in expressing needs; uses gestures or pointing instead of words
- Tantrums; displays extreme distress for no apparent reason
- Uneven gross / fine motor skills
- Speech absence or delays
- Noticeable physical over activity or extreme under activity
- Insistence on sameness; resists changes in routine
- Abnormal responses to one or a combination of senses such as sight, hearing, touch, smell, balance, reaction to pain
- Laughing or giggling for no apparent reason
- Spins objects or lines up objects often checking to be sure all are straight
