Sentences with phrase «severely autistic children»

While his remarkable trajectory may be discouraging to families of severely autistic children who have not made the same strides, the real pleasure of The Spark does not lie in Jacob's story alone but in his mother's unwavering view that each child has tremendous promise, an innate spark, which can be ignited and nurtured by perceptive parents.

The most severely autistic children were those whose heads grew the fastest.

Medical services and behavioral therapy for severely autistic children can cost more than $ 100,000 a year, and these children often exhibit extremely difficult behavior.

Chele Chiavacci Farley's remarks went over her biography — she was trained as an engineer and has a severely autistic child — as well as her critique of the incumbent Democrat.

Farley's 13 - minute remarks went over her biography — she was trained as an engineer and has a severely autistic child — as well as her critique of the incumbent Democrat, who is seeking her second full term and is talked about as a potential presidential candidate.

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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.

I've witnessed this many times in my own child and in my severely autistic nephew, (whose parents aren't willing to change his diet as they view the rigidity in carb preferences as part of the autism).

For example, a teenager who is visually impaired and also severely autistic — 4 Paws would place a dog with training that is called «facilitated guide work,» which the parent can use with the child to help them feel more independent.

As a young child, King stopped speaking and has since been diagnosed as severely autistic.