should be done even though the diagnosis has not been certainty. When done since early therapy, the result would be far better than if the child is aged 5 years and more.
To find out the symptoms, answer questions only on the following screening. My experience shows that screening is very useful to strengthen the suspicion autism. It should be remembered that these instruments serve only as a screening. To establish the diagnosis should be made a more complete examination.
Pervasive Develpment Disorder Screening Test - II
For children aged 12-24 months
1. Does your child often looks bored or not interested in talking to or an activity in the surrounding areas?
2. Does your child often do a job or play with an object, such that repeated for a long time, so you wonder why you feel the child can concentrate seumurnya very good?
3. Did you notice that your child can be very wary of a particular sound such as ads on TV, but does not like to hear others voice the same severity, even when not turned called?
4. Do you feel that the development of the child (other than the development of the ability to speak) a bit slow (for example, running late)?
5. Does your child play with only one or two toys of interest throughout the course almost the time, or not interested to play at all?
6. Are your children really like the feel of a strange object, such as a toy, such as different texture or silk carpets?
7. Is there someone who worries that your child may have trouble hearing?
8. Is your child happy to observe and play with the finger-finger?
9. Whether your child can not or can not express desires, both with the use of words or by pointing the finger?
10. Does your child does not appear to be interested to learn to speak?
11. Such as whether your child does not have any fear of the object or animal that is dangerous?
12. When you try to attract attention, do you sometimes feel that he is avoiding your eyes stare?
13. Does your child like digelitik and ran together, but do not like playing "ciluk-ba"
14. Whether he had experienced it time to be less interested in toys?
15. Does he avoid or do not like furry dolls or toys?
16. What he does not like playing with dolls or toys furry?
17. Will he be stunned at the things that move, for example, open the open-book page, pour the sand, play the wheel of a car or pay-mobilan water movement?
18. Do you feel that sometimes your child does not matter if you are not there or nearby?
19. What sometimes hearted atmosphere changed abruptly without obvious reason?
20. Does he have difficulty to play with new toys, even after he was able to play with these toys?
21. Will he ever stop using the mimic has dikuasainya, such as the flag to reveal the da-dah, kiss cheeks, the head shake or not to declare?
22. Does your child frequently to wave up and down on the side or in front of the body such as the stream feel happy when?
23. Does your child cry when you go, but, as no matter when you come back?
Number of answers "yes" for the odd number ..........
Number of answers "Yes" to complete the number ..........
Exegesis
When you have 3 or more answers "Yes" for the odd number, the child should be examined further to determine whether he has autisme.
When you have 3 or more answers "Yes" to complete the number, the child should be examined whether it was an interference in addition to the development of autisme.
Source: B. Siegel Pervasive Developmental disorders Clinic and Laboratory, USA, 1999.
