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Ahmed and Autism
By: Mariam Mohamed200701992
Dr. Steve Lydiatt
Ahmed is a lovely boy; he was born in 2003 as a first baby boy for two
wonderful couples from Dubai.
When Ahmed grew up, by the time, his mom
discovered that Ahmed is not acting and playing
normally with other babies of family
She thought he has a quite personality.
But even when he entered his first year
in kinder garden, the problem was similar,
his personality didn’t change, and his mom
and dad cannot understand their son’s
real problem.
Ahmed’s mom and dad took him to a doctor,
where he discovered that Ahmed has a mental
error called: Autism. Mom and Dad tried to know
more about the case
First, they started to find out the meaning of having
autism, and why their son had it? The doctor explained
for them Autism by saying:
It is a condition resulted from a neurological disorder,
this means an effect on brain function, causing an effect
over the development of communication and social
development skills of person.
It is mainly discovered at the first
three years of person’s life.
Ahmed’s daddy and mammy were worried
if they were late in discovering their son’s
mental error. But the doctor said:
I know my friends, you have similar questions that Ahmed’s
Daddy and Mommy have, why Ahmed having autism?
How does it happen? ,, let’s see together Ahmed’s brain
function to discover the reason:
There is no single direct reason for the causation
of Autism. However, all of the disorders occurring due
to linkage with genetic abnormalities, which leads to
alterations in brain function.
This alteration makes the individual having
difficulty in some of functions such as regulating
social interaction or speaking directly.
Ahmed’s mama went to the school and excused
the teacher to take his son out of his school,
she tried to find other schools which is proper
to Ahmed’ case
Now, my friends, let’s see together some of symptoms,
where you can recognize your Autistic friends, such as Ahmed:
He is making very little eye contacts
He is offensive in his comments
Ahmed lacks the skills of playing and talking
Ahmed finds it hard to understand feelings
Ahmed doesn’t like to be touched or expressing
physical contacts
Ahmed doesn’t like the sudden lights,
new smells and loud voices
Ahmed often cries and struggle as he feel
not prepared for new sudden actions
As he grows, Ahmed still having
problems in talking,
he prefers every day to stay quite
Ahmed plays every day with only single toy,
moving around and around in same place
daily, and getting bored from repetition
How will Ahmed’s new school will be different?
It will provide for Ahmed treatment techniques,
not only teaching him,
such as:
Physical therapy to gain control over body
Implement music exercises for focus helping
Ahmed feels the pain, love, sadness such others,
but he cannot express that
Autism will not disappeared
with the correct dealing with him,
he will be performing better
The End