GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
AUTISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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20%
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25%
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30%
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35%
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Detailed explanation-1: -An estimated 40 percent of people with autism are nonverbal. 31% of children with ASD have an intellectual disability (intelligence quotient [IQ] <70) with significant challenges in daily function, 25% are in the borderline range (IQ 71–85).
Detailed explanation-2: -Sound out: Interactive devices do not hinder nonverbal children with autism from learning to speak, and may even help them. Roughly 25 percent of people with autism speak few or no words.
Detailed explanation-3: -When people hear that a child is nonverbal, they often think of autism (ASD). While some individuals with ASD are nonverbal, there are a variety of other conditions that cause a child to be nonverbal, pre-verbal, or have emerging or delayed verbal skills, either short-term or long-term.
Detailed explanation-4: -1 in 44 (or 2.3%) of children in the US were identified with ASD using estimates from CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network.