A child addicted to mobile may have 'digital autism', how to know?

 A child addicted to mobile may have 'digital autism', how to know?

According to the guidelines of the World Health Organization, children under one year of age should not be placed in front of electronic devices such as mobile phones, televisions, tabs, computers, and the screen time of two to five-year-old children should be limited to one hour.

Because this device causes addiction in children, which can be dangerous for their mental and physical health. But this statement is limited to the guidelines only. These devices are becoming a means of parenting the children of today.

To feed the child, to sleep, to keep him silent when he does not fulfill any insistence, to prevent him from disturbing his work, he is made accustomed to mobile, TV and laptop.

As a result, the child becomes addicted to these devices. In an unbelievable way, the child's ability to learn, the way he speaks, and his behavior are not able to develop as much as they should.

As a result of that, most of the children are now seeing 'digital autism' as a big health challenge.

What is digital autism?

Digital autism is a condition in which children become addicted to screens and find it difficult to make friends with other children of the same age and to understand the situation according to the time.

Digital autism is a name that has been heard a lot recently. But this problem has not yet been approved by the official body as child psychiatry.

However, experts agree that digital autism is becoming a challenge in the current situation. It is considered a part of autism itself.

Difference between autism and digital autism

Digital autism is somewhat different from autism. Autism is a neurological problem. This problem can start from the time of pregnancy.

Children with autism have poor learning, understanding and communication skills compared to other children.

Whereas, on the contrary, virtual autism spends most of its time on the screen more than necessary and becomes addicted to it and its impact is seen in the quality of life.

In them, the ability to learn, understand and communicate is not developing properly according to their age. They do not agree to play with other friends. They don't like strangers coming home. Fidgeting, not paying attention to anything, focusing only on mobile or TV.

Most of the children with this problem resort to mobile phones from eating to sleeping at night. Late at night, they love the 24-hour content on their mobile phones dearer than their parents' arms.

the reason

In fact, children suffering from virtual autism consider the virtual world as their real life. There children can watch whatever they want.

Thus, they stay away from the real world and talk less with their family members around them. This hinders their necessary social skills and emotional development. How to respond to them at what time? It is difficult to find what is right and what is bad.

Constantly spending time in the virtual environment, children's senses are not activated and gradually stop working. The ability of such children to see and hear also begins to be affected.

Some children who spend 8 to 10 hours on screen may be worse off than children who spend 5 to 6 hours.

This problem is more common in children aged two to five years. If this process continues, its effect will remain even until adolescence.

Symptoms of Virtual Autism

- Ability to learn is affected

- The child is hyperactive (suddenly too angry, too happy, too angry or fearful).

- Difficulty concentrating on anything.

- Being repetitive in one activity or doing the same thing over and over again.

- Lack of interest in physical activity.

- Don't try to make friends.

- Do not go to crowded places.

- Not being able to express yourself well.

- Affecting the ability to speak.

- Not being able to pay attention to anything for a long time.

- Frequent mood swings.

Is it possible to treat it?

So far, there is no specific test method to identify it. To identify it, the child's ability to see, hear, speak and coordinate is evaluated by experts. If the child's speaking ability is weak, he is given speech classes.

Methods such as interactive therapy and speech therapy can also help a child read and write. In addition to educational programs and behavioral therapy, it also provides skill-oriented training sessions to help children learn speech, social behavior and positive attitudes.

To keep the child in a positive environment, parents are also encouraged to play and spend quality time with the child. If necessary, medication is also given with the help of a psychiatrist.

What should parents do to provide comfort at home?

- Parents should be trained first about virtual autism. So that it is easy to understand the child's behavior.

- No matter how much the child insists on taking the mobile phone, don't give it to them, but instead let it go and spend time with them.

- Make a daily routine for the child. In which only one hour of 'screen time' will be kept.

- Eat while sitting and don't keep your mobile while dining.

- Do not compare children suffering from virtual autism with normal children.

- Paying attention to the child's learning ability.

- If the child learns slowly, do not pressure him to learn quickly.

- Encouraging the child in extracurricular activities such as painting, sports, music and dance while enrolling him in such classes, practice social interaction with talent bring Such classes also help to keep them away from digital platforms.

Effects on eyes

When children constantly look at mobile, laptop, television screens, the harmful rays coming from them cause dry and red eyes.

If the child's habit of constantly using mobile phones is not controlled, other eye-related problems may occur over time.