Autism-World

It has been a problem for most of the parents of children with autism or asperger’s syndrome that their children won’t take the medicine easily. Pills aren’t something that you could just give up, it’s such an important part in the treatment of autism. So, here’s some tips about how to get your kid to [...]

First, do you really need an autism service dog?
Special trained dogs can help people with disability to become more independent, including people with autism. For adults and teens, an service dog is much more practical, because they are capable of handling the dog by themselves. At the same time, it doesn’t mean that autistic children [...]

Toileting can be diffcult for autistic children. Here’s 10 useful tips on potty training.
1. First, but a potty chair and a pull-up of course. If the child doesn’t feel like to do it, let it go. Try again after one or two weeks. Don’t make him sit on the toilet more than 10 minutes every [...]

Children with autism have temper tantrum problems – also called a meltdown, when it happens, they throw themselves on the floor, crying, screaming and kicking as a means of getting across that things are “not right”. Normal kids have temper tantrums too, but it’s not so difficult to deal with as autistic children. Here’s some [...]

The best age for treating autism is form 3 to 6 years old. During this period of time, children have few ingrained habits and their brains grow fast, it’s relatively easier to prevent autistic behaviors. If the obtimal opportunity for treatment is missed, no matter how many therapies you try, it’s hard to make a [...]

Both subjective and objective factors could trigger autistic tendencies. The subjective factor refers that some children might be born with shy and introverted character, which makes them not good at communication. The subjective factors basically come form family education. In addition, some children avoid social contact because of bad experience in interpersonal relationships. Autistic tendencies [...]

Some children don’t like learning and speaking, with unconcern for everything, love to play with a monotonous game alone for a long time… Psychologist may say that these children have “autism“.
Autism is one kind of neurodevelopmental disability. It is reported that there’s more than 1 in 100 kids with autism now in America. Here’s a [...]

Here’s a list of “when and where” imformation of the major 10 autism conferences in 2008. For details of these conferences, please click on the titles.
1. Annual COSAC Conference
Date: May 15-17, 2008
Location: Atlantic City, New Jersey
2. Issues and Recent Advancements in the Behavioral Treatment of Autism: Practical Strategies for Changing Behavior at Home and School
Date: [...]

Because of the mental retardation of children with autism, they often have many bad behaviors. How to deal with these behaviors? Here’s some tips that might be helpful.
1. If the autistic kid shows bad behavior, try to shift his/her attention by something interesting.
2. Sometimes, child with autism would hit head of himself/herself ,or shooting his/her [...]

I homeschool my son who has autism and I just cannot afford to purchase those kit products. So I make most all of his educational/therapy materials for the treatment of autism.
How I make the visual materials of autism is that I purchased a simple print artist software or print shop software. You can buy these [...]

As a long time private clinical behavioral specialist and consultant, I went to Michael Febrizio’s website to take a look and found, among other things, the following statement:
“Payment of the intake fee (of $500) and Michael meeting with you do not guarantee that your child will be accepted as a client of Fabrizio/Moors Consulting.”
Michael also [...]

Yes,kids with autism are qualify for disability benefits.
If a doctor diagnosed your child with Autism, get something from the doctor that says that and take it to the Social Security Office. Fill out the application, they will make an appointment to review your claim. He/She will quality for SSI if you meet certain income requirements.
You [...]

My experience with helping autistic children on most of the spectrum with daily tasks is to set up a board (can be a clipboard). You can use pictures or words, depending on the child’s functional level. Put hook side of the velcro on the board and loop side on the cards with the pictures/words.Start small. [...]

Children with autism Could receive the SSI disability income as well as Medic-aid benefits.
Call Social Security and ask them to send you an application for SSI. Make sure you have a doctor’s diagnosis of ASD. They will send the application and release of information medical forms so they may obtain medical information from any medical [...]

I am passionate and overwhelmed.I am a kid who grew up too fast.I am a child of God longing for freedom.I am a rebel, awaiting expression.I am a fallen yogi, slowly finding myself.I have more responsibility than I ever bargained for.The mountains are higher than I feared.The spring of life is ever elusive.I feed on [...]

I have two autistic children, and have worked with dozens more families. When they begin speaking depends on so many things, not just how old they are. You must look at the severity of their disability, their current deficits and most importantly how much therapy they are receiving (and from whom…the best speech therapist in [...]

Q: Son has AUTISM,and it is to hard for me to work. Iam a 50 year old widow.How can I get funding . REAL FUNDING?
I love being with him , and want to be there full time for him.I am in Massachusetts. I know about all the little things that are out there. But I [...]

Here are some procedures on how to apply for Medical Assistance for a autistic child that is 25% or more developmentally delayed in Pennsylvania.
1. Call Social Security at 1-800-772-1213 to apply for SSI for your child. Social Security will accept or deny your claim in writing.
2. Complete a “Teddy Bear” form and where asked about [...]

Q:Over the summer, one of my friends moved to a different town, and therefore had to transfer her children to a different school. Her middle son has been diagnosed as autistic, and had a wonderful school program in their last town, but the new town has little to no resources for helping special needs children.
He [...]

Q: I have a child who has autism. Is there any income tax relief (US federal and state of CA) for parents having kids with special needs -Autism?
Answer:
Yes.First thing to do is have the child diagnosed with a disability by a doctor.Second ,social security has monthly money available for totally disabled US citizens and residents.The [...]

Q: Are there any airlines willing to make adjustments and exceptions for my 3-three-old daughter, who has autism?
This question is primarily for other parents who have children with autism. Any information about specific airlines is much appreciated. Thanks so much in advance!
Answer:
Yes.JetBlue is one of the best I’ve heard (and experienced, I have a 3 [...]

Q:A good friend of mine is having a small party for her son and I am not sure what is appropriate for the boy. Although I have met him on a few occations (his younger sister and my son play), I have never spent any time with him so I do not understand the Autism. [...]

Q: My son is almost 3 years old and he has SOME of the symptoms of autism… he is “teriffied” of children his age, but he has never really been around any kids either. He is VERY shy i mean to the point that usually if someone talks to him that he doesn’t know he [...]

Q:I have a friend that took fertility drugs to have children, she had twins, the daughter is normal but the son has autism. I was wondering if the drugs she took had something to do with this disability.
Answer:
No.Among the “possible” causes I have heard (note NONE of these have been proven, and the shots have [...]

Q:Why is it when upon meeting someone new and them learning that my child is autistic, the first words from their mouths are “Oh, I’m sorry”?This is the case about 90% of the time. Why is this said without any further knowledge of me or my child? We don’t need or desire pity. What compells [...]

Q:Thirty years ago, it was estimated that roughly one in 2,500 children had autism, while today some estimate that number to have increased more than tenfold, to as high as one in 166. Why do you think this is?
Answer:The trend seems to indicate that autism is on the rise, but in reality, the diagnosis for [...]

Imagine you are watching your autistic child playing quietly in your backyard when you become distracted for a moment by a phone call. You then glance up to find your autistic child gone from sight. You don’t panic, but begin looking for your child. After a few minutes of searching and calling your child’s name, [...]

I am wondering if school districts are required to provide therapy services to preschool age children who are homeschooled?  More specifically, if the school diagnoses our son with autism would they still provide the 25-30 hours of programming if we pull him out of the public school?  In our state anyway I believe children are [...]

It is often known that many autistic kids also suffer from digestive ailments which I believe in turn causes the autistic behavior in some of those cases. What concerns me is the possible chronic effects of toxins produced by a faulty digestive system. I am reading a book “The Self Help Way to Treat Colitis [...]

I’m just wondering if anyone has any ideas for teaching vocal imitation.  This is the only area that my son has made no progress in – the rest of his goals in his VB program he is amazing everyone with daily gains, and we have even been able to add more programs this week, in [...]