What are the symptoms of childhood schizophrenia?
What are the symptoms of childhood schizophrenia?
Childhood schizophrenia causes symptoms similar to schizophrenia in adults. In many cases, children who have schizophrenia first show social and developmental delays that occur with other conditions, including:
- Disorganized behaviors, including inappropriate outbursts
- Motor skill delays, including a delay in learning to walk
- Poor attention span
- Poor eye contact
- Poor performance in school
- Speech delays or other problems, such as echolalia (repeating noises or words spoken by other people)