Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Lacks initiative to interact, share or participate in activities

  • Always lives in his/her own world

  • Difficult to understand others’ feelings, not good at reading verbal meaning or facial expressions, and weak in putting himself/herself in others’ shoes

  • Delay in verbal development

  • Weak in imaginative games

  • Extremely restricted range of interests, such as only interested in lining up model cars

  • Rigid and insistent on certain practices, such as always taking the same bus route or the same seat

  • Resistant to change