By Bryna Siegel
Bryna Siegel provides mom and dad of autistic teenagers what they want such a lot: desire. Her first ebook, The global of the Autistic Child, turned an rapid vintage, illuminating the inaccessible minds of kids. Now she bargains an both insightful, completely functional consultant to treating the training disabilities linked to this heartbreaking disorder.
The difficulty with treating autism, Siegel writes, is that it's a spectrum disorder--a mixture of a couple of indicators and reasons. to 1 quantity or one other, it robs the kid of social bonds, language, and intimacy--but the level varies dramatically in every one case. the hot button is to appreciate each one case of autism as a discrete set of studying disabilities, each one of which has to be handled separately. Siegel explains tips on how to take a list of a kid's specific disabilities, breaks down some of the types exact to autism, discusses our present wisdom approximately every one, and reports the present concepts for treating them. there's no uncomplicated healing for this multifarious illness, she writes; as an alternative, someone application, with a different array of particular remedies, has to be built for every baby. She supplies sensible advice for fashioning this sort of application, empowering mom and dad to take the lead of their kid's therapy. even as, she cautions opposed to the proliferating, yet questionable, remedies hawked to stricken households. She is aware the panic to do anything, something, to assist an autistic baby, and she or he bargains mom and dad reassurance and aid in addition to good recommendation, combining wisdom from adventure, concept and research.
For mom and dad, autism in a toddler is heartbreaking. however it don't need to be overwhelming. Bryna Siegel bargains a brand new realizing, and a realistic, considerate procedure that would provide mom and dad new wish.
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But the research did seem to support a few findings. Prenatal and perinatal suboptimality (risky events) did appear related to how much mental retardation accompanied the autism. The more compromised of twins usually had more severe problems, for example, and the more risk factors, the more likely that one of the children would be multihandicapped. As just discussed, the genetic makeup of the baby is determined at conception and it is believed that, in most cases, it is not altered after that. " No one risky thing that might happen in pregnancy consistently leads to autism.
I found myself worrying about this with one family, an "older" mother and father, who had two children with autism—both from the same in vitro fertilization—with the second child having been a frozen-embryo conceived from the same in vitro fertilization as his older brother. This kind of case might indicate that not just genes, but possibly some event in the very early development of the embryo, might also play a role in the expression of autism. When a woman's body does not seem to want to maintain a healthy pregnancy on its own, it may be a sign that all is not well with the raw material (the eggs) or with the integrity of the prenatal environment.
It seems pretty clear that the X-ray alone was unlikely to have caused Craig's autism: His mother was older. The family history suggested some probable mental retardation or other developmental problems in an uncle living in another country. The important thing is that, from our present understanding of these things, we have no way of knowing what the main risk factor for Craig was, or if there even was a main risk factor—not the opinion the parents' attorney had hoped to hear. The moral of the story is that for any given child there is not likely to be a one hundred percent sure-fire way to know what caused a particular case of autism.