People with autism syndrome are diagnosed because of their poor social relations including all forms of human communication. Children with autistic syndromes have many problems such as food refusal, they can be agessive or have major language abnormalities, and when they reach school age they can be classified as retarded.

First persons to notice that it is something wrong in their child behavior are their parents. If the child is a baby he could seem different from birth that meaning he could be unresponsive to people or focusing on one item for long periods of time. Children with autism syndrome have often unusual responses to sensory experiences such as sounds or the way objects look and demonstrate deficits in social interactions or verbal or nonverbal communications.

Also, children with autism syndrome demonstrate deficits in social interaction,verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors or interests. In addition, they will often have unusual responses to sensory experiences, such as certain sounds or the way objects look

Christopher Gillberg and Mary Coleman talk about this syndrome in a publication called "The biology of the autistic syndromes". The heterogeneity of autism is defined by the title and the publication includes the clinical diagnosis of different subtypes, associated desease entities, epilepsy and the neurology of autism syndrome.

Well covered are the areas of neuropsychology, genetics and biochemistry, and in addition to updating new findings this edition carefully delineates clinical subtypes of autism and the association of autism syndrome with known genetic and medical disorders. This publication has 19 concise and well-written chapters that lay out strong guidelines for further research, and cover the entire scope of literature on the subject. The authors want to make this text useful for practitioners not familiar with the field, as well as for knowledgeable parents and clearly discuss popular therapies.

This publication about autism syndrome has a chapter on genetics that nicely outlines findings about each chromosome from both chromosomal and molecular studies and a definition of subtypes in autism drug, studies that are concepts just now beginning to be appreciated.

The chapter on neurology outlines the possible origins and timings of lesions in utero that lead to maturational defects in autism syndromes.

However, people with autism syndrome should share the same rights enjoyed by all of us. They have the right to live independent in the limit of their potential, the right to an accessible and accurate clinical diagnosis, the right to appropriate a education, they have the right to live with dignity and independence and to decide about their future.