A recent article in our local paper told of the difficulties that families have finding daycare for infants. I’ve found this to be particularly difficult in my case as I have had several special needs children. It’s hard enough to find child care, much less care for a child that has health concerns [...]
Last Wednesday, April 2, the first World Autism Awareness Day was observed. An initiative of the UN General Assembly, it is “a day to focus on children and adults suffering from autism.”
Autism has been linked to vaccines, genetics, pollution, and prenatal alcohol exposure. A recent study shows another side to the multi-faceted Autism Spectrum Disorders [...]
A recent report by ABC News and Good Morning America examined a relatively new method of helping children with the disorder (and their families) by using trained service dogs—the kind of dogs that we are all used to seeing assist the blind and deaf.
Service dogs provide comfort, help and support
Groups such as 4 Paws for [...]
People will pick up on anything to accuse of being autistic. Absolutely anything.
More children are being diagnosed within the Autism Spectrum each year and the anti-vaccine movement just eats it up. Despite the fact that for years scientists and researchers have published comprehensive information disproving the link between the type of mercury found in vaccines, [...]
There has been question as to whether vaccinations, particularly the MMR
(Measles-Mumps-Rubella) vaccine, lead to autism in children. While some
studies have suggested that there may be a link between thimerosal, the
mercury-preserving component in some vaccines, and autism, major health
organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and FDA, deny
that there is a link[...]
Research at the Baby Lab Project at Uppsala University in Stockholm is studying electromagnetic brain activity in babies by attaching electrodes to their heads whilst they are playing with different objects.
The aim of this research is to tell which part of the brain does what when the child interacts with the world around him. This [...]
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I am the mother of a High Functioning Autistic child. So often, parents of children with disabilities find themselves feeling as if they are on the outside of what would be considered normal parenting. Care giving a special needs child is very demanding and the milestones we celebrates are taken for granted by [...]
I think that all parents have instinctively been given an internal warning system that alerts them when something is off with their child. What happens when your radar system alerts you that something major is not right?
When my oldest child was a baby, I had concerns. I just brushed them off (and so [...]
Your Baby Can Help Medical Research by Donating Umbilical Cord Blood
When I had my twins four-and-a half years ago, I wanted to do an umbilical cord blood donation. Unfortunately, at that time, it was not possible at the hospital where I delivered. Since then, the procedure has become widespread and I had convinced a [...]
It may seem intuitive, but a study from the Netherlands suggests that screening of toddler’s language abilities, and early intervention by speech and language therapists for children who performed poorly, dramatically reduced the number of children placed in special education schools by over 30%. Early screening also seemed to improve all the children’s [...]
