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Thinking About Autism as a State of Dissociation

News Elf — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:01:56 +0000

Through the lens of an “Incomplete Attachment” I have previously described that the child (teen or adult) with autism is experiencing dissociated states. What does this mean? From my perspective, the child has many parts of himself that have not become integrated as a whole. These aspects of the self have not been validated and recognized by “another person” so the child, in turn, cannot use and see himself. Thus the different parts of this child become dissociated and cannot work together to the benefit of the child. We can say that this child does not have the ability to go from one part of himself to another. The child also cannot go within himself to retrieve these dissociated parts.

How can I recognize dissociation in a person with autism? Dissociation is easy to recognize. We all have aspects of dissociation, but it is more profoundly seen in Autism Spectrum Disorders. The following are examples of dissociation: 1) reduced sense of pain – the child may burn himself, but not demonstrate any outward behaviors that say, “I am hurting.” The pain is there and he feels it, but he is split off from his ability to claim it and name the feeling, 2) Exceptional savant skills – such as extraordinary ability to remember days of the week, birthdays and dates associated with events, ability to do mathematical calculations that others can only do with the help of a calculator or great musical and artistic abilities. These abilities seem to coexist with what appears to be severe disabilities. Most people observing such a mixture of behaviors would be confused and conclude that there must be something “wrong” with a person who on the one hand has great musical ability or artistic ability, but cannot talk. I would say this is an example of dissociation in that the emotions are split off from the intellect of the person, 3) Cannot shift thinking from one subject to another – this is an example of not being able to go from one part of the self to another. The individual is demonstrating on the outside of himself what is occurring on the inside of him. In other words, his inability to go from one part of himself to another, 4) the child can think through mathematical problems, but cannot think through and understand social interactions – the child has access to his intellect, but no access to the emotional parts of himself. The emotional side is harder to access if you have never had an attachment. It is through an attachment that one feels understood and seen and in turn can talk and have access to the emotional parts of one’s self.

These are only a few examples of what I think about when observing the autistic person through the lens of dissociation and an “Incomplete Attachment.” When one thinks about autism from this perspective than one can have hope that the child can develop into an integrated person. The work with the autistic person is to help them to become more conscious of the split off parts. This includes helping them to name their feelings along with the development of a trusting relationship with “another person.” As they become more conscious of themselves their dissociated parts will begin to work together.

Working with dissociated states is not easy and can be very time consuming. But the work is worthwhile when you see the child gain access to dissociated parts of himself and then begins to speak and do things that he had not previously been able to do.

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About the Author:
Karen Savlov is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and psychoanalyst practicing in West Los Angeles. She is affiliated with the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She specializes in autism spectrum disorders, depression, anger management, assertion training, communication, anxiety, relationships and work related issues. She has worked for many years with children, adolescents and adults including those on the autism spectrum continuum. She has also provided trainings and support groups for parents of children with autism. She is now running groups for college age students with developmental disabilities. She has made presentations on this subject at numerous conferences and meetings.
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Autism Begins In The Womb – A Clairvoyant’s View

News Elf — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:04:09 +0000

We humans are constantly making choices, both consciously and subconsciously. Those choices are not random, they always occur with awareness and intention.

We make choices from the very beginning of our lives, which appears to be from conception. This has been one of the most striking realizations of my clairvoyant research on unborn babies and infants. I observed that babies in the womb live primitive lives. Unborn babies and infants act from their wills. They gradually become aware of their physical bodies and the womb environments they are immersed in. As they mature, they gain a heightened sense of awareness, mental understanding, and the ability to communicate with their parents energetically and psychically using natural communication skills. Their awareness of the world outside the womb greatly increases at around four months when they develop the ability to hear sounds.

From the start, embryos seem to have a conscious awareness of self and awareness that they are an “I,” much the same as all children and adults have a similar subjective experience. When I was reading an embryo only three weeks old, I saw her energetically resisting and fighting for her life when her mother was seriously considering an abortion. Even before this embryo appeared to be consciously aware of her mother’s existence, she seemed to be energetically pleading for her life and fearing her death. I sensed the embryo’s reaction. It was occurring without any observable exchange of thoughts or images. I realized that the reaction came from a basic understanding in the embryo that she was alive and that her life was somehow in danger.

It also became clear from observing unborn babies that, not only do we experience our physical development, we actually are required to participate in it and become an integral part of our early developmental process. An embryo or fetus and his or her mother must be willing to cooperate with the developmental process in order for the baby to grow in a healthy mental, emotional, and physical way.

When a fetus takes-on or develops selfish behavior patterns and indulges in ongoing selfish reactions, and chooses to repeatedly enact those patterns and reactions during womb life, those destructive choices will usually have lifelong negative consequences.

Autistic Symptoms
I have found that autistic symptoms are the direct result of reactive choices that started in the womb. Choices by a fetus to go inward to an extreme can inhibit an embryo or fetus’ natural psychological development, perhaps, lead to physical impairment. After the baby is born, he or she may not have the ability to choose to develop naturally.

The two most significant factors in the development of autistic symptoms are “child-to-parent agreements” and “severe selfish reactions,” reactions related to the child being subconsciously rejected by both parents.

In every autistic reading so far, I have seen that the child was enacting negative agreements made with his or her parent of similar angry or fearful selfish disposition or temperament. Those subconscious agreements translated into a promise by the child “not to be alive” and “not to openly express.” These agreements were deep, subconscious, usually strong, and entered into early in the womb.

However, the major instigator in an unborn baby’s choices to go inward, stay inward, and “give up on life” was a fetus’ strong selfish reaction to his or her parents’ subconscious reaction to having the child. In each case to date, both the autistic child’s mother and father were subconsciously reacting and rejecting the child. Literally left with “no person to go to,” the baby psychologically fled inward.

Subconsciously and psychologically, both parents were pushing away and refusing to love the child. This was usually in direct opposition to how the parents were consciously and physically choosing to be after the child was born.

Autistic children make strong subconscious decisions to willfully resist and avoid being mentally and emotionally present to their physical situations. This makes them dull, disinterested, defiant, and gives them (and their parents) a myriad of mental and emotional problems.

Every unborn baby has the natural ability to respond in right and loving ways
Unborn babies are able to (and do) choose to make either right choices or selfish choices in response to the choices of their parents. When a baby in the womb chooses to keep his or her attention and focus outward, and is willing to interact with parents without strongly reacting to their parents’ negative choices, that baby greatly enhances his or her awareness and ability to function properly.

Importantly, a genuinely caring mother or father will be a great support and will nurture a baby in mental, emotional, and physical ways. True and selfless caring on the part of parents make it much easier for unborn babies to make the right choices necessary for healthy mental and emotional development.

There have been numerous scientific studies on unborn babies that demonstrate their psychological sophistication. A six-month old fetus has been shown to be as psychologically sophisticated as a one-year old infant. However, most parents do not want to acknowledge their unborn babies’ acute perceptual and interactive abilities. Parents also do not want to know consciously that the energies of their conscious and subconscious negative thoughts and feelings are hurting their sensitive and vulnerable unborn babies and infants.

We will probably never be willing to see the truth about our babies until we are willing to see the negative truth about our selfishness and ourselves. As long as we deny having hurtful and destructive intentions, and reject the personal responsibility we have for our selfish choices, we cannot truly love and nurture .our babies and children in genuine ways.

I am a clairvoyant researcher who has generated and recorded over 1200 psychological profiles during the past 30 years on individuals suffering a wide range of mental, emotional, behavioral, and sexual disorders. Several of my books are available at Link Title For more information about autism, visit Link Title

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About the Author:
Jean is a clairvoyant researcher, who has worked for the past 30 years in an independent research project. The project’s objective was to discover the true cause of human negative experience and behavior.
Jean has generated and recorded over 1200 clairvoyant case studies on people in all walks of life suffering a variety of mental, emotional, behavioral, and sexual disorders.
She has also investigated and reported about babies in the womb and infants reporting on their psychological development and subconscious interactions they had with their parents.
She has a group of books containing clairvoyant case studies on babies in the womb, newborns infants, children and teens with disorders, Children and teens with autism, children and teens suffering, Alzheimer’s patients, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, and women who had an abortion. Her “Inner Profiles” reveal deeply hidden subconscious psychological factors that underlie and orchestrate common dysfunctions. []
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Asperger’s Syndrome, Sociopaths And Bipolar Disorder

News Elf — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:21:08 +0000

Asperger’s Syndrome is on the spectrum of a developmental disorder named Autism. Asperger’s Syndrome is called AS for short. It’s a mild case of autism, perhaps the most mild type of autism. Not like people with PDD-NOS and Williams Syndrome, children born with Asperger’s usually have some natural gifts at the same time, for example, math, music or science. Many celebrities suffered from this disorder in the history, it’s said that the ex-president Bush have it too. The only thing that people with Asperger’s cannot be gifted is social ability. They have difficulty in reading expressions, understanding body languages. In a word, they don’t know how to communicate with others naturally. However, they mean people no harm, that’s the biggest difference between people with Asperger’s Syndrome and Sociopaths.

Sociopaths have the ability to communicate with people normally, and they can sense what society considers right and wrong, however, they have no conscience and cannot feel empathy, guilt and remorse like we often do. Some serial killers are sociopaths, they disrespect the rights of others,but they have nothing to do with Asperger’s.

People with antisocial personality disorder are called sociopaths. In the 1830’s this disorder was called “moral insanity”. The main characteristics of sociopaths are Grandiose Sense of Self, Pathological Lying, Shallow Emotions, Impulsive Nature, Unreliability and Parasitic Lifestyle. If this disorder is not treated in childhood, it can develop into adulthood. Treatment for antisocial personality disorder is usually through group psychotherapy.

http://www.autism-world.com/index.php/2010/03/29/the-difference-between-sociopaths-and-aspergers-syndrome/

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. Bipolar is a mood disorder and it is genetic. There are several forms of Bipolar, but they can be controlled with medication. Bipolar disorder is not very common in children with Asperger’s but can show symptoms.

People with Asperger’s syndrome show marked deficiencies in social skills, tend to have restricted patterns of behavior, interests and activities.

It is not hard to diagnose one from the other. They are not really similar. But, there is a connection between bipolar and Asperger’s syndrome. Someone with Asperger’s syndrome may also throw temper tantrums or have meltdowns as people with Bipolar have extreme emotions. The reason is that the neurotransmitter serotonin is low in both cases. Many people with AS have bipolar as a comorbidity or family members with bipolar. There are correlations of HFA and other disorders as well, such as dyslexia or hyperlexia because of the neuronal jumble that begins growing out of control in the first trimester gestation of the frontal lobe. Macrocephaly causes list autism first over other etiologies.

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Can Animals, Like Dogs Or Cats, Have Autism?

News Elf — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:14:34 +0000

Research has found out that animals think the way like autism savants. Even some people with autism claimed that their thinking processes are like an animal’s. Animals are visual thinkers, they store their memories with pictures. In other words, animals make visual associations, just like autistic people. Fear is the most important emotion in animals, especially prey animals as sheep or horses. Fear is also the main emtion in autistic children.

Since animals and autism savants have those things in common, they seem to be more easy to understand each other, and make friends. Probably this is why they use animals as a treatment of autism, animal therapy, including service dog therapy, dophin therapy, horse-riding therapy and so on. Children are always happy to be with these cute animals.

So, according to all these similarties between animals and people suffer from autism, we could be very curious, is it possible that dogs or cats or horses can have autism? Well, some dog’s owner found that his dog has entirely shut down within itself and is no longer able to communicate or play with others. And they also show plenty of autistic behaviors, for example, repeating movements, not responding to their names, avoiding eye contact, developing deep trance states. For a cat, it paces endlessly in a ritualistic way.

In brief, pet animals showed autistic behaviors because of the lack of attention, which is called “Attention Energy”. Animals need this attention energy to keep normal and alive. Once the attention they achieve is much too little, they would develop autism-like behaviors for the sake of attention.

Therefore, to solve this problem, and put autism-like dogs or cats back to normal, you need to spend more time with the pet, let it feel the warmth of love, play with it with caring concerns. In conclusion, pets need attention and love just like children. If you don’t give them enough, they will get “sick”. Just think about it, you are the most important person in its life, but, it is far from the most important thing to you. It’s an unequal relationship in the first place. So, give the animal more love!

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New Warning About Everyday Poison Linked to Alzheimer’s, ADHD, and Autism

News Elf — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:49:06 +0000

Dr. David Ayoub is a radiologist and a physician, and has become a specialist on the additives and preservatives used in vaccines. He was a presenter at the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) Conference in Washington D.C. last year.

Here he discusses the practice of using aluminum as an adjuvant, and why he believes aluminum may be far more toxic than thimerosal in vaccines.

Dr Mercola’s Comments

Dr. Ayoub was, as many of you are, very concerned about mercury (thimerosal) in vaccines for a number of years, and attended a number of autism conferences that featured physicians who were highlighting the dangers of mercury.

However, a few personal encounters heightened his interest in another toxic metal frequently used in vaccines, namely aluminum.

Parents of autistic children kept pointing out the fact that their children’s heavy metal toxicity profiles showed high amounts of aluminum, and they wanted to know what that meant.

Secondly, a well respected nutritionist who deals with industrial aluminum toxicity showed him toxicity profiles of middle school children who had ADHD. In his estimate, 90 percent of the children in one particular school had developed ADHD during the course of a single year, and their toxicity profiles showed massive amounts of aluminum.

In addition, he did a pilot study with Dr. Usman, who treats autism with biomedicine, and when he evaluated the aluminum burden of these autistic children, he found that high percentage of them also had very high aluminum burdens.

All of these events led him to look deeper into the aluminum issue, which we discuss at length in this interview.

Why is Aluminum Used in Vaccines?

Mercury (thimerosal) exposure has declined significantly since it was eliminated from the single-dose vials of most childhood vaccines, yet autism rates have continued to skyrocket. This has led many to assume that mercury isn’t a problem, and anyone questioning the safety of vaccines is considered to be a hysterical wingnut.

However, while mercury use has decreased, the use of aluminum additives has increased!

Aluminum, like any other adjuvant, is added to the vaccine in order to boost the host’s immune response to the antigen. The antigen is what your body responds to and makes antibodies against (the virus being injected). By boosting your body’s immune response, the vaccine manufacturer can use a smaller amount of antigen, which makes production less expensive.

Interestingly enough, according to Dr. Ayoub, even our modern medical literature admits that how this happens exactly is still a mystery. And it’s not a consistent finding. He mentions a couple of studies on the more recent HPV vaccine, which found that the aluminum adjuvant had no effect at all on the immune response…

So, although aluminum is frequently added to vaccines for this particular purpose, no one knows with any degree of confidence that it actually makes a more effective vaccine.

Is Aluminum a Heavy Metal?

Aluminum is by many considered to be a heavy metal. However, based on the Periodic Table, it’s just shy of a heavy metal. So it’s called a “light metal.”

But regardless of its precise classification, aluminum is in the metal grouping, and it’s a common compound.

You will find aluminum in the earth’s crust, and in air, soil and water. However, although aluminum is a common, “natural” substance, it’s important to realize that it has absolutely no biological role inside your body.

In fact, we already know that aluminum is a poison.

Which Vaccines Contain Aluminum?

Many vaccines contain aluminum, including:

* Hepatitis A
* Hepatitis B
* DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis)
* Hib vaccine
* Pneumococcal vaccine
* Gardasil (HPV vaccine)

This is NOT an all-inclusive list, however. Your best bet is to read through the package insert of each vaccine in question.

You can find a comprehensive list of approved vaccines on the FDA’s website, with links to each package insert.

The amount of aluminum in each vaccine will vary. However, according to Dr. Ayoub, it’s important to realize that the toxicity is not entirely dependent on dose, but also on how it’s distributed in your body.

For example, a small dose released rapidly from the injection site into your body can cause a rapid rise in blood aluminum levels. So a small dose released quickly may be much more toxic than a large dose that ends up staying longer in the tissue at the injection site.

The variables of personal differences and differences in how the injection is given are too numerous to count, and they may play a role in how toxic a shot ends up being once injected into your body.

How Much Aluminum is Your Child Getting Through Vaccines?

Dr. Ayoub has identified one vaccine in particular as being one of the absolute worst in terms of aluminum content – Pediatrix. It’s a combination vaccine, which contains 850 mcg of elemental aluminum.

The average aluminum content per vaccine ranges between 200 to 400 mcg. Others contain less, such as Prevnar, which has 125 mcg of aluminum.

Adding to the problem, however, is the fact that many children end up receiving multiple vaccines at a time. In effect, children are getting concentrations of aluminum that are 10 to 20 times higher than mercury.

Based on the number of vaccines given, children today are receiving 17 shots that contain aluminum, compared to four vaccines in the 1970s into the mid-80s. According to Dr. Ayoub’s calculations, the milligram dose of aluminum received has more than doubled in that time.

This can have significant implications, as aluminum is not only toxic in and of itself, but it also impairs your body’s ability to excrete mercury, and it impairs glutathione synthesis. As a consequence, aluminum will make whatever amount of mercury you have in your system even more toxic.

Remember, you and your children are exposed to mercury from other sources as well, not just vaccines. Fish and amalgam dental fillings are two major sources of mercury exposure as well.

Problems with the Legal Limits on Aluminum

In the U.S., the FDA sets the guidelines for what and how much aluminum is allowed in vaccines. According to the FDA, the maximum amount of allowable elemental aluminum is 850 mcg per vaccine.

Clearly, it makes a major difference if this amount is injected into a small infant or an adult, but the FDA makes no distinction to that effect.

In fact, when Dr. Ayoub dug deeper into the FDA regulations on aluminum, he discovered that the limitation of 850 mcg per vaccine is based on the effectiveness of the adjuvant role of aluminum and has nothing to do with limitations based on safety whatsoever!

Shocking?

Yes! But not surprising, at this point.

However, it may be wise to keep this fact in mind, as those who argue that the amounts of aluminum in vaccines is a “legally safe dose” are really just citing a regulatory guideline that is based solely on the efficacy of the vaccine, and NOT based on any safety data whatsoever.

Approach to Treatment and Prevention of Aluminum Toxicity

1) Avoid/minimize exposures

* Test drinking water with and without filter
* Avoid cooking with aluminum utensils/pans
* Never store food in contact with aluminum
* Use non aluminum baking soda, deodorant, toothpaste
* Avoid aluminum-containing vaccines, or separate multiple aluminum- containing vaccines by 2-4 weeks, only take single formulas/shots
* Avoid drinks in aluminum pouches/cans, especially if they contain citrates/ascorbates which enhance aluminum absorption
* Take vitamin C and fruit juices on an empty stomach
* Minimize exposure to calcium carbonate-containing medicines

2) Testing for body levels

Blood aluminum only useful in cases of large, acute exposures (i.e., acute vaccine reaction) for chronic exposures: hair analysis, post-provocative (EDTA or DFO) urine metals, urinary porphyrin testing

3) Treatment of deleterious actions of chronic aluminum exposure maintain normal serum vitamin D levels

* Melatonin has powerful antioxidant properties and is particularly depleted from aluminum exposure
* Curcumin
* Supplements or foods that dirve the methylation process (methionine cycle), i.e., B6, B12, folic acid, folinic acid, etc
* Natural chelation like cilantro pr supplements or foods that drive

Medial Chelation:

Calcium disodium EDTA pulls lead and aluminum. It is also contaminated with aluminum, as many calcium-containing products are. Oral dose is easiest but rectal suppository is available.

(Detoxamin) and may have the added benefit of low absorption of the aluminum contaminant that requires iron-transport system found mostly in small bowel as opposed to the rectum. Intravenous EDTA can be used by healthcare professional.

Medical chelation has been performed for many years using deferoxamine (DFO). This is a potent chelator for iron and aluminum and has been used mostly by nephrologists in treating aluminum toxicity from oral phosphate binders once used in patients with chronic renal failure. This is potent enough to reverse severe acute neurotoxicity from aluminum poisoning but has potential serious side effects and can only be used by a physician..

Learn More About the Health Implications of Aluminum!

I strongly urge you to listen to the interview with Dr. Ayoub in its entirely to learn more about the dangers of this common vaccine adjuvant. Clearly, aluminum stands poised to take over mercury as one of the worst offenders against health.

Children With Autism & The Strain On Marriage

News Elf — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:28:52 +0000

Unfortunately, in our times, many marriages end in divorce or separation. This statistic is even higher when you mix in the autistic child. No matter how love and understanding, both of you, ask the child, the truth is that autism is a complex issue, and the load on the marriage is not uncommon.

Trying to remain positive about the situation in order to enjoy your marriage healthy, you and your husband to avoid marital problems and hopefully survive the difficult times to raise children with autism.

Why did you marry a husband or wife? This question can often focus on the good things in your marriage. Raising a child with autism is stressful, and so stressed, you tend to grab the other person for errors smaller. Instead of these bad qualities, take the time to come together as you like in the beginning of the relationship. This may at some time with their children. If you learn that your child is autistic, it is advantageous to you and your spouses are not only ?two people who meet your child. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers, baby sitters, or good people of your child’s life in the most intimate way possible. Thus, even with your partner as possible.

Working with your partner, to help your child, rather than fighting each other. E ‘may have different ideas about what to do in certain situations, willing to compromise and professional advice before making decisions is always caring for the child. By working together, to remind you that your child the best opportunities. Try to set aside time each week together as a family, especially if the parents or other primary health care.

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Animal Therapy for Autism

News Elf — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:31:44 +0000

Dolphins are one of the most intelligent animals in the world. Researchers found out that they can help people who suffer from neurological disorders, especially autistic children. Dolphin therapy is claimed to increase speech and motor skills of children with autism, however, it’s still a controversial topic.

Dolphins are popular in human culture because of their friendly appearance and loveable attitude, in Greek myths, dolphins are helpers of the Minoans, messengers of Poseidon. Recently, Dr. Ken Marten at Sea Life Park in Hawai’i demonstrated that dolphins can recognize themselves in mirrors, and, they are also sentient, fully conscious, with complex language of their own. Nowadays, Dolphins are among the most popular choices of animal-assisted therapy for children with autism, Down’s syndrome, depression and other developmental disabilities and psychological problems. In dolphin assisted therapy (DAT) programs, kids on the Autism Spectrum could swim with dolphins in natatorium, and having lessons on land. Commonly, kids are delighted to pet and play with dolphins, but there is no scientific evidence to prove that the dolphin therapy is effective.

“It provides me with hope, more than anything,” said Omar Ramos, whose son, John-Ross, has autism. “I want my child to be able to experience a lot of different things, and so it gives me a lot of hope, especially when I see him being able to do stuff in the water or with the dolphin, even with a computer.”

Many children would enjoy playful interaction with a dolphin, however, dolphin therapy can not “cure” autism as other therapies. But, it can make kids happy, so it’s still worth a try.

Service Dogs and Autism

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 cannot have service dogs, on the contrary, they could benefit kids with autism in a lot of ways. For example, if the child doesn’t come or respond when called, the dog can help you find him/her quickly, especially in school or other public places. Also, the dog could help the child become more social with their peers. These are the bright side of an autism service dog, but, you have to look at the dark side also to make an final decision. The dark side is that the child cannot take care of the dog, the parent have to look after the dog, too. And the fee of an autism service dog is very high. Besids, a dog has about the same intelligence as a three year old, would you trust a three year old with the care of your child? Ok, all things considered, let’s suppose that you still want a dog, then you must pay attention to the following questions.

Second, what is the right Service Dog breed for autistic people?

These dog breeds are recommended for people on the autism spectrum, Newfoundland, bloodhound, border collie, Yellow Labs, golden retriever or other highly intelligent breed. Many large dogs are great with kid, gentle and peaceful. Try to avoid small dogs. I cannot say which breed is the best for children with autism, after all every autistic person is different. You may need to hire an animal behavioral consultant to pick up a dog with you and your child. You can choose several most gentle dogs and bring them outside to meet your child to see which one can socialize with her/him best.

Third, how to pick up an autism service dog?

Proper training is the key in an autism service dog. Official service dogs are strictly trained on how to behave with people. Also, the match of the personality of the dog and the child is very important.

Horseback riding therapy for autism

We came back from horseback riding therapy for autism. My daughters respite worker and a little old lady who works at the stable was leading her horse. The horse got spooked and took off running and it ripped the rieigns out of our respite workers hands and out of the little old lady?? hands who was leading the horse but it took longer for her to let go so the horse dragged her a few feet.

I was watching and screaming whoa, not that it did any good but I didn?? know what to do to get the horse to stop. It was very scary and I felt helpless because my daughter was on the horse as it took off running. She was laughing and enjoy the ride until his speed threw her from the horse. I was horrified as I watched her fly through the air. All I have to say is my little girl is one tough cookie.I thought she was going to get back up and say let’s do that again. She didn’t but she didn’t seem very effected by the fact that she had just gotten thrown from the horse but my respite worker was so upset she was crying because she felt it was her fault that my daughter got thrown. When my daughter saw her crying she began crying. So I right away went over to calm our respite worker down while my husband was on the ground with my daugther. I did feel that it was better for all of us to remain calm rather than get upset because it would be harder to find out if my daughter actually got hurt. She appears to be ok. I think she is going to be sore tomorrow but she was not affected much by that whole incident. But I have to say being the one standing on the sidelines watching it, it all looked very scary. We have one more week left of the fall sessions and I don’t know if I am going to go back.

They always tell the kids to keep their feet in the stirrups but I think that is scary to do that because if my daughters feet got stuck in those stirrups the horse would have dragged her as he raced around that barn. The other thing I don’t like is that the lady who runs it doesn’t seem to really understand autism at all. She talks to the kids like they totally understand everything she says and honestly my daughter can be as unpredicatable as that horse so I think this place needs to have a better understanding of autism and also their trained people should be leading those horses and those who know the rules of the barn so that they don’t spook the horse but us parents who know nothing about horses are out there leading them. It just seems way too dangerous of a combination. She tried telling me that this has never ever happened but I find that hard to believe. The horses they are using seem old and tired out. None of them wanted to trot. Thank God she is Ok.

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Recognize Early Signs Of Autism

News Elf — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:34:00 +0000

Here at Autism.News-Elf.com, we make it a point to keep our eyes open for the great content that will help you learn about or deal with Autism in your life. Today, we have a video we felt was helpful…

How to Recognize the Early Signs of Autism

Know the early signs of autism and check to see if your child exhibits them.

The Means to Know if Your Child has Asperger’s

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:50:09 +0000

Asperger’s Syndrome is a milder kind of autistic illness. The conditions are part of a larger cluster of neurological disorders known in the US as Pervasive Developmental Disorders, or PDD for short. Both are essentially described by illogical actuations and purposeful self-ostracism. There may be difficulty as well in vocalization and response actions. Your young one could also be specifically concentrated on a exact area of interest, for example cars or heavenly bodies. This powerful confinement of interest to the omission of everything else produce the self-ostracism. Any conversation is as well confined to that matter and nothing else.

Medicine has not as of today identified the actual reasons of autism and Asperger’s though they think the causes are physical. Disfigurements in the brain are considered to cause the disorder, but the means they come about is not known.

There is no authoritative examination for Asperger’s, but there are certain indications, including:
- Apparent lack of sociability shown by the succeeding: messed up nonverbal communication, failure to achieve by-age colleagues associations, non- participation in collective actions, inability to reciprocate communally and/or in terms of feelings
- repeated actuational or concentration activities like: abnormal level of interest in one or two certain areas, performing strictly particular processes of no use, cyclical actuations, such as hand or finger shaking, inordinate interest in parts of articles such as toys, no noticeable hindrance in learning the language, learns or identifies applicable toilette skills

The appearance of one or more of the above symptoms may direct your therapist to assume the tyke is affected with Asperger’s. Cure will center on communications, abnormal recurrent actuations and reaction ungainliness.

There aren’t any healing regimens for Asperger’s that will make it leave. Yet, by employing a blend of methods that tackle the three main manifestations of the condition (low interaction capacities, compulsive or repetitive actuations and body clumsiness); you can assist your kid live a fairly ordinary existenceYet, in dealing with the greatest indications of the disorder, the Asperger’s young person may keep a pretty – ordinary life

Therapy for autism can help deal with Asperger’s if you seek an expert therapist. There is no lone cure for this ailment, but cognitive behavioral therapists can be useful.

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Autism Teaching Techniques – What to Remember When Teaching Autistic Children

News Elf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:26:01 +0000

Good educators are those who assist children in autism achieve success. They should be able to help their pupils overcome autism.

Teaching autistic children is not recently limited on the patients; instructors must furthermore interact with the parents and more and more family members. Parents need to be aware of their children’s case and they must have special participation in the planning of the instructions and curriculum and in monitoring the progress of their child. If teachers let the parents do their share in the learning process, the child will get not just good school experience but also better and more productive learning experiences at home.

Here are some things teachers have to bear in mind when teaching children with autism:

1. Long strings or series of verbal instructions must be avoided. As a teacher, you must always bear in mind that autistic individuals find it hard to instill the sequence in their memory. So if he or she can read, just write down the instructions on a sheet of paper. If you are giving directions involving more than three steps, write them down.

2. Most autistic people are visual thinkers. Many people with autism think in pictures, not in language. So if you want to make them familiar with some words, use pictures to demonstrate such words to the child.

3. Autistic children usually get stuck on a certain subject such as maps or cars. Since fixations on some things just can’t be avoided, better utilize them to encourage school work.

4. Utilize concrete visual techniques to teach children with number concepts. In teaching autistic children with numbers, it would be better to use visual methods such as math toys.

5. Protect children with autism from sounds that usually hurt their ears. Loud sounds irritate autistic children, so protect them by avoiding things that produce such sounds. Don’t let the child have fear on the sounds he or she doesn’t like because it can make him or her behave badly. Autism Teaching Techniques

6. If the autistic child is hyperactive, let him wear a padded weighted vest. Such apparel help calm autistic children that’s hyperactive. The garment gives pressure that calms the person’s nervous system. It would be better to allow the child to wear the vest for twenty minutes and take it off for a few minutes. This way, the nervous system is prevented from getting used to the said outfit.

7. Most children with autism have troubles controlling the motor in their hands. It is for this reason that most autistic children have messy handwriting. Oftentimes, they find it hard to achieve good handwriting and this can totally upset them. So to avoid or at least lessen such frustration, better help the child find pleasure in learning by letting him or her type on the computer.

8. Make sure the child’s desk is near the window. Fluorescent lights and some visual distractions bother autistic individuals. So when teaching autistic children, avoid illuminating the room by means of fluorescent lights and let them sit near the window.

9. Children with autism are oftentimes good at art, drawing, and computer. If you notice that the child is good in a certain field, encourage them to use and improve their talents.

10. There are autistic children who easily learn how to read using phonics while some learn by memorizing the words. This is also an important consideration in teaching autistic children. Since they learn reading the easy way through the help of phonics, then teach them phonics rule. Don’t let your child suffer anymore! Lead your child out of his world through Autism Teaching Techniques program now!

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Types Of Autism – There Are 5 Different Types of Autism Disorders

News Elf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:37:58 +0000

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Types Of Autism

Autism is a complex developmental disability amongst many distinct values of severity. Technically, there is one diagnosis that is Autism. People do but then refer to the Pervasive Developmental Disorders as disorders on the Autism spectrum or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Autism Spectrum Disorders are developmental brain disorders that cause impaired social interaction, concerns amongst verbal and nonverbal communication, and unusual, repetitive, or majorly limited activities and interests. Autism is just one of uni different sorts of Autism disorders. Below are definitions and characteristics of the five different autism disorders.

Classic Autism: Autism is the second leading childhood developmental disorder and is considered the most severe of the different types of Autism disorders. People with Classic Autism develop language late, or not at all. People affected with Classic Autism have difficulties talking with other people or a profound lack of affection or emotional contact with others, an intense wish for sameness in routines, muteness or abnormality of speech, high levels of Visio-spatial skills, but major learning difficulties in other areas. Symptoms of autism usually appear during the first three years of childhood and continue throughout life. Autism is a spectrum disorder because the severity of impairment in each of these areas differs in each individual.

Aspergers Syndrome: A Person with Aspergers Syndrome can exhibit a variety of characteristics and the disorder can range from mild to severe. Children show deficiencies in social skill and have difficulties with transitions or changes. They compulsively cling to rituals and any changes in their routine can upset them. They have a great difficulty reading body language and determining proper body space. Some children with Aspergers Syndrome have reduced sensitivity to pain and an increased sensitivity to bright lights and loud noises.

With this type of Autism disorders they also have average or above-average intelligence. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder: Childhood Disintegrative Disorder includes severe regression in communication skills, social behavior, and all developmental motor skills. At the beginning these children seem perfectly normal. They start to regress at between ages 2-4 years. At that time these children stop socializing, lose potty-training skills, stop playing, lose motor skills and stop making friends. Types Of Autism

Rett Syndrome: Rett syndrome is a neurological and developmental disorder that mostly occurs in females and is marked by poor head growth. Loss of muscle tone is usually the first symptom. Other early symptoms may include problems crawling or walking and diminished eye contact. They stop using their hands to do things and often develop stereotyped hand movements, such as wringing, clapping, or patting their hands.

The inability to perform motor functions is perhaps the most severely disabling feature of Rett syndrome, interfering with every body movement, including eye gaze and speech. Infants with Rett syndrome seem to grow and develop normally at first, but then stop developing and even lose skills and abilities. Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified: This tends to describe people who have many or all of the different types of Autism disorders.

Children with PDDNOS either do not fully meet the criteria of symptoms used to diagnose any of the four specific types above, and/or do not have the degree of impairment described in any of the above four specific types. Don’t let your child suffer anymore! Lead your child out of his world through Types Of Autism program now!

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Treatment of Autism – The Importance of Supplements That Many People Overlook

News Elf — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:59:02 +0000

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Autism is kind of disorder that affects the social and behavioral skills of children. This syndrome usually manifests when the child is an infant, especially during his or her third birthday. The child with autism finds it difficult to communicate effectively and this is can be frustrating to those around, especially the parents.

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