Hope For Autism - The Concept Of Symptom Free
This Article is About: Autistic Behaviors, Teaching Autistic Children, Schools For Autistic Children
I first developed the concept of becoming symptom-free of disability when I was working on my Career Development Award from The National Institutes of Health. As a brain scientist working for the most rigorous medical research facility in the world,...

Autism Or Language Disorder? Diagnosis Based On Symptom Analysis
This Article is About: Autistic Disorder, Teaching Autistic Children, Teaching Autistic Child
The analysis of symptoms is very important. Autism is a symptom-based diagnosis made by observing a specific cluster of symptoms known to characterize this psychiatric disease. Usually mental health practitioners obtain a description of the...

Adult Autism: Growing Old With Autism
This Article is About: Autistic Disorder, Autistic Adults, Autism Autistic
For many people adult autism is just the way of life. They have to endure living with this disorder, which can be very difficult because they can't function as normal people can function. For some people, they have learned to accept this disorder...

Autism Awareness - Why You Can't Make Judgements
This Article is About: Autistic Home, Adult Aspergers, Aspergers Test
Apparently this week is autism awareness week. For those of us who have children with autism, every week is autism awareness week - every week, every day, every hour, every minute, every second. There's no escape, and for some the reality is very...

A Review of Autism Research
This Article is About: High Functioning Autistic, Asperger's Disease, Aspergers Disease
Despite the high number of affected children, their parents often complain about the lack of intensity in that research if any is done nowadays. Of the total amount of the National Health Budget, which adds up to $30 million, the part that goes to...

A Look at the Evolution of Autism Research
This Article is About: Autistic Adults, Autistic Children Programs, Aspergers Adults
Autism research has yet to make significant progress in uncovering the causes of the condition. Numerous professionals have spent countless hours, weeks, and even years in an effort to obtain significant results to expand our understanding of the...

Autistic Boy Miraculously Escapes Scalding
This Article is About: Aspergers Syndrome Adult, Aspergers Syndrome Treatment, Adult Aspergers Syndrome
Copyright (c) 2008 Rebecca HansonYou know how a movie will show you an accident in show motion? What is about to happen is really bad and you know that in reality it only took a spit second, but the film is slowed down so it takes 10 to 20 seconds...

Some Facts about Autism
This Article is About: Autistic Children Activities, Activities For Autistic Children, Autistic Disorders
Autism is one of the mental and behavioral disorders classified under the Pervasive Developmental Disorders or PDD. This is a group of disorders characterized by severe and pervasive abnormalities in social-interaction skills, presence of...

Equine Therapy for Children with Autism
This Article is About: Parents Of Autistic Children, Aspergers Children, Children With Aspergers
The New Role of Horse Therapy for Autistic ChildrenParents of autistic children have had many therapies and medications tossed their way, with hopes of reaching their children on a whole new level. Many parents are now looking after the potential of...

All about Autism Aspergers Syndrome
This Article is About: Autistic Adult, Autistic Games, Autistic Characteristics
This article sets out to outline many of the characteristics of Aspergers syndrome in such a way that the information can easily be shared with others. Autistic Spectrum Disorder (autism) is a life-long developmental disability that affects social...

Enzymes, Autism and PDDs
This Article is About: Aspergers Test, What Is Aspergers, Aspergers Syndrome Symptoms
In this article we’ll take a long look at Autism, at what is known and at some things about which we can only surmise. We’ll start with the question: How do enzyme supplements help in autism and other pervasive developmental disorders (PDD’s)?Many...

My Child is Autistic and I do not Know what to Do
This Article is About: Autistic Child, Autistic Disorder, Autistic Support
As a parent, you do not have the time to consider why or how this happened, only what to do next. The most important thing to remember is that you are not alone in your struggle. By researching the disorder and finding others going through similar...

Where are the Families With Nonverbal Autistic Children?
This Article is About: Autistic Behavior, Autistic Support, Teaching Autistic Children
In search of a term to find those who have given up searchingby Portia IversenAuthor of Strange SonImagine you are given a list of words, words that are unfamiliar to you, words that today we might call search terms -- and you are asked to guess...

Autistic Adults - Why We Should Worry
This Article is About: Autistic Support, Autistic Home, Autistic Art
My friend's son has autism. He never sleeps or at least not for any length of time and she is exhausted. Over the years sleep deprivation has been a real problem and the only time she gets any rest is when he goes to respite care. Even then she...

Tips For Getting Your Autistic Child Photographed
This Article is About: Autistic Child, Autism Autistic, Autistic Home
The needs of an Autistic child can be photographing them very difficult. They can have a hard time sitting in one position, or have sensory issues with bright lights. Here are some tips for getting the perfect picture of your Autistic child.1. If...

Autistic Boy is a Real Houdini
This Article is About: Autistic Savant, Parents Of Autistic Children, Autistic Children Programs
Copyright (c) 2008 Rebecca HansonLiving with a cognitively challenged child is, well...challenging! It also has its humorous moments. Comic relief arrives, just when you are ready to pull out your hair!Although little Matthew, our adopted son who...

Autisim Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
This Article is About: Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Autistic Symptoms, Autistic Disorders
They are able to earn degrees and to maintain gainful employment. Others never develop the communication and self-help skills necessary to live independently. Autism spectrum of disorders are difficult to recognize because of their insidious nature....

Autistic or Visual Learner?
This Article is About: Autistic Behavior, Autistic Symptoms, Teaching Autistic Child
Our ability to understand the world around us relies on a central communication system that is visual and auditory. The brain has four pillars that help us connect our sense organs to the brain and result in our understanding and managing our...

Teaching the Autistic Child to Pay Attention
This Article is About: Autistic Child, Autistic Behavior, Autistic Characteristics
Visual attention is one of the four brain pillars that we all use to support our ability to understand the world around us. The brain relies on these four pillars - visual attention, visual memory, auditory attention, and auditory memory - to help...

Is My Child Autistic?
This Article is About: Autistic Spectrum, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Autistic Spectrum Disorders
More people are becoming aware of Autism these days and although no-one likes to think that their child may have something wrong with them, the number of children diagnosed with Autism seems to have increased over recent years. It is because of the...

Why You Should Let Autistic Children Just be Kids - They are Just Chil..
This Article is About: Autistic Symptoms, Autistic Art, Autistic Children Activities
It is a tough job being parents of autistic children and sometimes it can be hard to just let your child be a kid. It is easy to get wrapped up in everything to do with your child's treatment that you can sometimes forget to let them have some fun....

Signs and Symptoms of the Autistic Disorder
This Article is About: Autistic Art, Autistic Characteristics, Autistic Signs
The first signs of autism occur during the early infancy and the disorder is usually diagnosed by the age of three when parents are alarmed by the abnormal development of their child. Infants mostly develop normally until the age of 2 when the...