Sentences with phrase «when autistic children»

When autistic children are very young, their parents can have the opposite of an obesity problem.

When autistic children are born, Courchesne's research suggests, they have an abundance of neurons jammed into an average - size brain.

One very striking piece of evidence many of us have noticed is that when autistic children go in for certain diagnostic tests and are told not to eat or drink anything ahead of time, parents often report their child's symptoms improve — until they start eating again after the procedure.

Imaging studies have shown that when autistic children see a familiar face, their pattern of brain activation is different from that of normal children.

There are times when an autistic child may ignore you when you're speaking to him, and he may even appear to be deaf.

For example, when an autistic child watches a step - by - step guide to handwashing on an Android phone, it's easier for them to copy what they've seen than it is to follow verbal instructions.

Not exact matches

«Social robots have already redefined the landscape when it comes to, for example, teaching autistic children how to identify facial expressions and non-verbal cues, leading to more appropriate socializing,» she says.

When the article mentioned «theory of mind» it reminded me of a population which typically has an impaired sense of it: Autistic children.

When Bruno Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990 at the age of 86 he had a towering and broadly based reputation: as a wise and humane child psychiatrist in whose Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago hundreds of severely disturbed children had been restored to normal life, as an expert on child - rearing in the Israeli kibbutzim, as a survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau whose writings had established him as an authority on life in the concentration camps, and as a specialist in the treatment of autistic children.

Some autistic children, when placed on a gluten free diet, showed significant improvement in their behavior.

I happened on being wheat free 9 years ago, on my own from something I read on the web in regard to autistic children — actually found it not at all difficult to change, and as a result my life - long cronic anemia was gone in 6 weeks and also the osteoporosis in my 60's when I had 10 fractures — wrists, ribs, vertebrae, and a knee.

«The first is autistic disorder,» explains Allison Kawa, child psychologist specializing in the evaluation of children and adolescents, «which is when the individual has problems with their communication, with their social skills, and behaviors that are repetitive or idiosyncratic or excessive.»

While there's no hard research to support this, I've read a number of articles about iPads helping to keep autistic children calm and engaged so they can be more comfortable when in social spaces.

Many autistic children begin talking normally until about 18 months, when they suddenly seem to «lose» the words they've learned and become less responsive to their parents.

In response to the viral video in which an autistic student was verbally abused by a teacher, Judi shares her advice on what to do when you see abnormal behavior in your own children.

Marguerite Elisofon is a New York City writer and the author of My Picture Perfect Family: What Happens When One Twin Has Autism, a memoir about how her family navigated life with a child on the autistic spectrum before the internet and support groups existed.

Many autistic children sleep better when their bed is pushed up against the wall, as they feel more secure; a corner is even better.

Autistic children, on the other hand, will struggle to interpret social nuances and the limits of conversation even when they are at home or in other comfortable surroundings.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

Physical displays of affection can make an autistic child uncomfortable, even when they come from family members or a beloved pet.

She hopes this finding will inspire new therapies for autistic children: «If you have an intervention that jumpstarts this system — if you can get a child to think, «Hey, that's the face I feel when I'm angry» — in the long run you should see improvement.»

Many autistic children seem perfectly normal until about 18 months, when they suddenly and drastically regress.

Autistic children blinked right through those moments, suggesting they were not following the emotional arc of the story, but they responded sharply when an object suddenly moved.

When parents bring me an autistic child, quite often the first thing they talk about is profuse diarrhea, bloating, reflux, severe constipation, or some other digestive problem.

That kind of probiotic causes a so - called die - off reaction because when you introduce the beneficial bacteria, they will kill the pathogens and when these critters die, they release toxins, the same toxins that make the child autistic, hyperactive or dyslexic.

The best way for an autistic child to learn is when they know what to expect.

Dramatic improvements in autistic children when they get a fever suggests that the disease may be reversible if one can replicate the phenomenon in other ways.

These «failure to thrive» autistic children are very hard to put on this diet because of their parents» fears, but will usually respond when acceptable substitutes to the non-tolerated foods can be provided.

There's a common observation among parents of autistic children that their (our) children behave normally or more normally when they have a fever.

Some autistic children, when placed on a gluten free diet, showed significant improvement in their behavior.

Lillian Michelson was restless while raising three children — one of them autistic, at a time when that condition was little understood and didn't even have a name.

That's when Diane Sherman, who teaches autistic children, heard Pepperberg, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Media Lab, describe how she'd trained Alex: First, the bird watches a trainer give instructions to another person, who models correct and incorrect behavior; then Alex gets a chance to mimic the behavior.

After all, the symptoms in autistic children often start appearing by age 2, which happens to be when youngsters get that shot.

«When parents say, «I wish my child did not have autism,» what they're really saying is, «I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different (non-autistic) child instead.»

However, there are many characteristics that autistic children often have in common with each other, and the use of e-readers in the classroom can meet head - on many of the challenges that arise when trying to reach students on the spectrum.

However, in my experience the autistic children sometimes are more likely to be honest when confronted with a question about their behavior.

When not working, Lea Ann's passion for photography and horses led her to work with autistic children in therapeutic horsemanship and capturing memories for the families of the children.

Some of the stressors that might weigh on your marriage when raising an autistic child include feelings of guilt, loss and anger; the imbalance of time and care spent on that child; the difficulty of accessing needed services; and the lack of an outside support system.

Who: Parents of children who have been diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder When: Groups begin every 6 weeks

When Le Tan Dat, a fresh university graduate, made known his plans to help autistic children one year ago, his friends gave him the nickname of «Dat autistic.»

Scattone et al. (2012) found that social stories which are developed effectively and introduced in the natural environment targeting these three autistic children have proven to have a decrease in disruptive behavior when the intervention was implemented to all samples.

When you're busy with your autistic child's ABCs, and teaching them to eat with a knife and fork, their entry into the job market can seem very far away.

Autism iHelp is a great tool for your autistic child when those words just don't come out easily.

Many parents discover their children are autistic when their child's language development lags behind their peers.

Read books that teach the alphabet, and let your autistic child point, or clap, or make a noise, or any other signal they choose when they hear the right sound.

When you're playing dress up with your autistic child, there's no reason why you have to limit the characters to superheroes or exotic occupations.

Similarly, and in our own LEAP program, we saw a spike in autistic - like behaviors when children with autism were only in physical proximity with one another.