{"id":6064,"date":"2022-12-19T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T05:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:04:29","slug":"autism-spectrum-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/autism-spectrum-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism Spectrum Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a <strong>developmental disability <\/strong>caused by differences in the brain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People with ASD may behave, communicate, interact, and learn in ways that are different from most other people.<\/li>\n<li>ASD <strong>begins before the age of 3 years and can last throughout a person\u2019s life<\/strong>, although symptoms may improve over time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>People with ASD often have problems with social communication and interaction, and restricted or repetitive behaviors or interests.<\/li>\n<li>They may also have different ways of learning, moving, or paying attention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Initiatives to Raise Awareness on ASD:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)<\/strong>, <strong>Sustainable Development Goals Deal<\/strong> with rights of people with disabilities including autism.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Right of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 increased the types of disabilities from 7 to 21.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also added autism spectrum disorder among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the treatment for autism spectrum disorder?<\/h3>\n<p>There is currently no standard treatment for autism spectrum disorder but there are many treatments that can help children with ASD acquire new skills and overcome a variety of developmental challenges. Common autism treatments include behaviour therapy, speech-language therapy, play-based therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and nutritional therapy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/m.timesofindia.com\/articleshow\/96330740.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disability caused by differences in the brain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}