Autism-World

Bipolar disorder(manic depression) and Asperger’s syndrome are two different things. Bipolar is a mental illness caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, meanwhile, Asperger’s syndrome is one condition of pervasive developmental disorder(PDD), a milder variant of Autistic Disorder.
People with Bipolar disorder have extreme emotional ups and downs. They have episodes of depression and mania. [...]

Q: What’s the difference between autism and Asperger’s syndrome? What do they have in common?
Answer:
Asperger’s syndrome and autism are both on the specturm of Autism Disorder which also includes Rett’s Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, etc. All these types of autism disorder present at least some of those symptoms: echolalia [...]

Q: I have 2 children.Braden who is now 3 and Madison who is 4. Braden was diagnosed with ASD in Sept and its very clear that my daughter has her own problems. Braden just turned 3 and I have been trying to get him help since around 18 mths. I spent months trying to convince [...]

Q: My 2 year old son who’s biggest red flag so far has been language delay and a little bit of atypical eye contact has started flapping quite a bit when he’s excited. It’s only for a couple of seconds and he’s easily redirected. Is this ever a behavior seen in a NT toddler when [...]

Q: I have 2 children.Braden who is now 3 and Madison who is 4. Braden was diagnosed with ASD in Sept and its very clear that my daughter has her own problems. Braden just turned 3 and I have been trying to get him help since around 18 mths. I spent months trying to convince [...]

Q: I am sitting at my desk in tears right now. My son is almost 8 and he is autistic. He is non verbal and has been extremely hyperactive over the past 6-8 months. He used to be very aggressive so we had to put him on Risperdal, which helps so much with the aggression, [...]

Q: Has anyone heard of or tried using Dmg for your autistic child? I am new to this and have a lot of researching to do. My son who is 5 also just finished treatment for relapsed leukemia and has epilepsy. We are now trying to incorporate different foods into his diet. I am new [...]

Q: Is gluten free diet really helpful with kids with autism? Has there been studies on this? This would mean no flour type products?
Answer:
I’m not sure what has been done as far as studies, but there are many parents who have good results with dietary interventions, and others who see no difference at all. With [...]

Q: I heard that GFCF diet for autism can unmask a yeast problem. It appears my daughter has a yeast infection. She is miserable right now poor thing. We are getting ready to take her to the doctors but I was wondering if this might be a sign that she does have a problem with [...]

Q: I hope today was mainly medication related, but our son who has autism raged from early afternoon until about half an hour ago, so roughly 8-10 hours, until he finally fell asleep after the pedi said to give him some Benadryl. I was truly afraid he was going to hurt himself or one of [...]

Q: My son who has autism has been doing pretty good with the GFCF diet. He is not fighting us too bad and will try what ever we get him. He has been wanting Mcdonalds and begging us for it but we have been able to keep him off that topic.My daughter on the other [...]

Q: Our son with autism has been receiving “medical” ST, paid for by Medicaid and carried out at our Children’s Hospital and School by an SLP through their outreach program. We started around February of this year and he has been going weekly since then. They said since he is eating and using his communication [...]

Q: This is a terrible problem with my son who has autism and I cannot get him to eat anything but pancakes(only buttermilk) french toast, oreo cookies(only the small ones) , fruit and grain bars and steak. He sometimes likes bbq pork chops, and chicken patties, but not very often. In worry that he was [...]

Q: My son has his first bully. His first set of glasses disappeared on the bus soon after he got them. Since this is a small town, I found out through the grape vine what happened. A kid on his bus took his glasses, took them home, and smashed them. How do you start to [...]

Q: Hi, son 12 with Aspergers. I know Autism involves alot of sensory issues. I actually have bribed my son just to try a tid bite size of like cooked carrots, cantaloupe, augratin potatoes, he will get it in his mouth and start gagging he could almost throw up. He has sat at the table [...]

Q: How does someone get into autism research? Say they already have a bachelor?? degree in special ed. What would they get their master?? degree in? What would the Ph. D. be in?
Answer:
Clincal psych or childhood development would both do well. If you are planning to do research geared for classroom use, continue the master?? [...]

Q:I volunteer 5 days a week with a boy who diagnosed as mildly autistic. He is 11 years old and a Disney fanatic. I’ve been working with him for six months and his birthday is coming up. I’m finding myself at a loss for ideas on what to give him. I don’t want to get [...]

Q:My fiance’s sister in-law has a 21 yo autistic son. He lives at home with them and attends a day program (when his behaviour is OK). The problem is quite an embarrasing one for them. It seems that their son has quite a few issues with going to the bathroom. He seems to have a [...]

Q:Is there any connections between autism and birth control?
The question basically meant is there correlation that since woman have started using birth control that any scientist feel that it could be one of the possibilities to consider what might cause Autism.
Birth control came around the same time that Autism was disgnosed at around 1 in [...]

Q: My son has never stimmed. He is 5 1/2 now and suddenly loves to run circles around people or just in a room when excited about something. I assume this is his way of stimming. Should I encourage him to stop doing this or allow him to do it? It doesn’t happen everyday or [...]

Q: I have a 2 and a 1/2 year old son here are the symptoms oesn’t like hugs, kisses, or any kind of affection,Won’t play with his toys, he just lines them up and counts them over and over again, Calls things by there colour iinstead of there name, for no apparent reason stands [...]

Q: How common is autism and at what age does it start?
Answer:
Autism affects about 1 in 150 people in US.Autism starts at around 18 months years old.Asperger Syndrome is still under diagnosed and alot of people with it are still being treated badly by society and disrespected.
Autism is a condition where the child cannot interact [...]

Q: I mean I know some of it, rain man and the creation of a personal world, but there is so much controversy and so many claims made about it, I just don’t really know what autism is.
Answer:
The “rain man” is a savant and they are rare.Autism is a spectrum disorder meaning that it varies [...]

Q: I’m looking for someone with personal experience on this one. I’m wondering if there are any signs of autims as early as 6-7 months of age. If there are can you please describe them? I never been around babies before, so I’m not sure what the normal behavior of a 6-7 month old is.
Answer:
Receiving [...]

Q: Our daughter, 3.5, has been in therapy for developmental delays since the age of 14 months; we got a diagnosis of PDD-NOS about a year ago. She currently attends a special needs preschool. She is verbal, but her speech is stilted: she cannot have a conversation, and all utterances are either requests or narration. [...]

Q:My son was diagnos with PDD-NOS. What is it exactly. His thearapist explained but I still don’t really understand. Please help.
Answer:
PDD-NOS is not autism. This diagnosis is given when they have some symptoms of autism, but not enough to have the Autism diagnosis. Don’t misunderstand me, depending on what symptoms are showing up in the [...]

Q: Does anyone know of any good therapy to help a young autistic girl who has a large single-word vocabulary, put those words into coherent sentences?
Answer:
I would certainly recommend working with a speech therapist or speech pathologist, or checking to see if this service is available at your child’s school. If it is provided through [...]

Q: My son has autism i need to find out about sign language for young children.Can you help?
Answer:
Ok , I need to know what state your in If your in USA. If your in USA there is a program called Early Childhood Developlment/or intervention.
Also sign language can ne learned by you. .I have been doing [...]

Q: My daughter is 2 and newly diagnosed. she has a 7 yr old brother and a 7 month old sister.How will autism affect my daughters siblings?
Answer:
I all depends on the severity of your daughter. I have three childrend (10/girl, 9/boy – severly autistic, 6/boy). My daughter (oldest) doesn’t like having a lot of people [...]

Q: I am looking for oragnization who give grants to individual families for therapy and therapy supplies. I actually run such an organization, but feel it is unethical to receive fund for my own child through an organization I founded. I have looked online and can find nothing for individuals.
Answer:
I am not sure of such [...]