• My Child Is Autistic
  Many parents forget that they are not the only ones who must learn to live and communicate with an autistic child.
• Bad Apples On The Family Tree
  The news that a child in the family is autistic is most often met with a number of reactions. While all family members, even extended, would be supportive in an ideal world, the sad truth is that many are disgusted or disappointed.
• Autistic Children And The Strain On Marriage
  By trying to stay positive about your situation, and by working to keep your marriage healthy, you and your spouse can avoid marital problems and hopefully survive the trying times of raising an autistic child.
• Laws And Autism
  By knowing the laws that protect you or your autistic loved ones, you can live in a world that provides better opportunities to everyone, regardless of not only disability, but also race, gender, and ethnicity.
• Autistic Forms Of Teaching And Tolerance
  Understanding how autistic children learn is key to teaching them with the same intensity as you teach other children. This may seem like a straightforward idea, but autistic children learn so differently that understanding autism itself is a must when you teach autistic children.
• Achieving Self-Control With Autism
  Giving the child power over him - or herself is often the key to keeping control over violent situations and may be a positive step towards learning other behaviors as well.
• Busting The Autism Stereotypes
  It is most important to note that not all autistic people are the same. Other diseases and disorders have their own sets of rules, but autism is such a complex medical condition, that everyone reacts differently to it.
• Dealing With Asperger Syndrome
  Asperger Syndrome does not dictate mental ability, but rather makes it difficult for people to communicate in social settings, much in the same way a typical autistic child has trouble with behavior in groups.
• Doctors And Diagnosing Autism
  Autism occurs at a young age, rather than being a disorder an older child might develop. It is usually detected before the age of three, and many times much earlier.
• What Causes Autism
  Although autism is not the parents' fault, it is most likely that autism was found elsewhere on your family tree, and it is not uncommon for parents to raise more than one autistic child.
• Dealing With Autism
  It is important to begin only one treatment method at a time. If you try everything at once instead, good and bad effects may cancel one another out, or even if the effect is totally positive, you will not know which treatment method is causing it and which are not doing anything.
• How Brothers And Sisters Can Cope With Autistic Family Members
  Sometimes parents are so involved in preparing themselves and their autistic child for the transition ahead that they forget that their other children must also deal with the new situation.
• How A Hug Can Help Your Autistic Child
  Oftentimes, hugs and squeezes from other people can cause more distress because autistic children or adults are often unable to communicate their needs by indicating a particular amount or length of pressure.
• Visual Perception Treatment For Autistic Children
  Not every child responds the same way to every color, so it is a process of trial and error to find out which color is the one blocking the harmful light.
• Musical Therapy To Treat Autism
  By encouraging eye contact while singing or using instruments that need to get close to the face, musical therapy can help autistic individuals break social barriers.
• How Auditory Stimulation Helps And Hurts An Autistic Child
  Sound can both be hurtful and helpful for an autistic child. Because each autistic individual is different, you must closely observe him or her to find out what types of reactions you can expect from auditory sensory stimulation.
• Self Injury - How To Stop This Dangerous Practice
  An autistic child's frustration goes hand-in-hand with wanting attention. For instance, by scratching oneself until one bleeds, the autistic child will immediately get someone's attention, and this person will work to understand what the child wants or needs.
• When Lying Isn't A Problem - Theory Of Mind Difficulties
  Because autistic individuals have an inability to lie, they also do not realize that other people do so. In fact, it is a rude awakening for autistic people to find out that others lie or are bad in general.
• Dealing With Autistic Teenagers
  Although your autistic child is not experiencing puberty in quite the same ways as others his or her age, major hormonal changes still occur in the body.
• Smooth Transitions - School To Work
  One of the main things autistic graduates need to learn is how to deal with people in a business world. This includes proper grooming, something that may not have been such a big deal in high school or college.
• Dietary Concerns - Gluton And Casein
  If you or your child with autism eats many foods with these products in them, such as breads or cheeses, you may be able to better control autistic behavior by decreasing consumption of such foods.
• Medication Options For Autistic Patients
  There are advantages and disadvantages to each drug, as they all have side effects as well as benefits. When choosing medicines to effectively treat autism, your doctor can make recommendations, but since autism is a disorder which varies from person to person, you should use drugs very carefully, watching to see how the body reacts to the treatments.
• What Is Leaky Gut Syndrome?
  the inability of the intestinal wall to keep out large, unwanted molecules. This symptom of autism most often signifies that the intestinal wall has been altered to become permeable.
• Sexual Abuse In The Autistic World
  Be sure that your child understands the differences between good touches and bad touches. This can be extremely difficult for autistic children who are sensitive to touch in general.
• Family Vacations With Autistic Children
  Choose a location and activities that everyone can enjoy, but also that provide learning and social interaction opportunities for your autistic child.

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