Relationship Between Autism and Communication
Autism can be defined as a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior. Speech is only one of the aspects of communication. The body language and the tone make any speech understood better. Autistic people have difficulty in communication on all or any of the aspects of speech, body language or tone. If speech alone was regarded as communication, there is nothing weird in the communication of autistic people. More attention is drawn to the aspects other than words during communication. Hence autistic people gradually begin to avoid communicating since it becomes difficult for them to make sense in the aspects of body languages or tone. For people who only have speech disorder, technology has provided alternate 'media' which converts thought in to words. Alternately, therapy using music is also found to be of effective assistance. For autistic people who do not und...