Mental Health of Parents who have Children with Autism

Sawitree Wongkittirungruean

Abstract

Children with autism were not mental retarded children. But, they had developmental disorder, and were slow in some activities. So, they were different from mental retardation. However, autism might be occurred with mental retardation. Consequently, it was necessary to precisely discriminate the autism, and mental retardation. Because the support technique and method in some issues, were different. It might be concluded that the children with autism were children group with problem in language development, communication, social or interpersonal interaction. They had sort attention span or low concentration, hardly sit still. Some of them may have behavioral and emotional problems.