Your doctor may be able to point you in the right direction in what treatment option that may work for your child.

Some treatment options may include:

Behavior and communication therapies – Many programs have been designed to help address the range of social, language and behavioral difficulties with autism. There are programs to help reduce problems with behavior and teaching new skills. Other programs teach children how to act in a social situations or how to communicate with others. Children do not outgrow autism, they learn how to function with their autism disorder.

Education therapies – Autism children function better with a structured education program. These programs often include a team of specialists and activities to improve on social skills, communication and behavior. When preschool children get early intervention they show a good progress.

Drug therapies – There are no medications the can improve on the signs of autism but there are medications to help control symptoms. Antidepressants can be prescribed for anxiety and antipsychotic drugs are used in severe behavioral problems.

Since autism is a devastating and incurable disease, many parents search for alternative therapies. There have been some studies that report good results with special diets. Several diets suggest restriction of food allergens; probiotics; yeast-free diet; gluten-free and casein-free diet and dietary supplements.

Creative therapies – Parents have chosen to take part in educational and medical intervention with art and music therapy or sensory integration, which focuses on reducing the child’s sensitivity to touch or sound.

Chelation therapy- This treatment is recommended by few doctors and parents. This therapy is to remove the mercury from the body. There have been no studies linking mercury with autism. This chelation therapy has not been shown to be safe or effective treatment.

History Autism

Although the history of autism likely initiated well during a century ago, autism wasn’t formerly recognized as its own condition, it was originally confused provided another mental disorder, schizophrenia. For many years, it was also believed that autism was the result of one, basic cause. Today, it is known that autism does not only have one cause, and nothing about the disorder is basic. History Autism

For instance, although all autistics have issues with social development, some may be highly gifted and learn to live independently, while others are mentally unable to grasp concepts and are completely dependent. However, you may be wondering, how did the history of autism develop and where did it all begin? The following are the main facts that outline the major breakthroughs in autism history.

• 1912 – Eugene Bleuler – a Swiss psychiatrist was the first to recognize a pattern in schizophrenic individuals who seemed to be self-absorbed. Bleuler referred to this self-absorption as “autism”; he was the first to create and use this term. However, he was not the first in the history of autism to recognize autism as being a separate mental disorder from schizophrenia. History Autism

• 1943 – Leo Kanner – an Austrian-American child psychologist was the first to recognize autism as an independent mental disorder. Kanner described a group of 11 children having the following common characteristics: o Displaying anguish with changes o Problems with social interaction o Delayed echolalia (vocally repeating the sounds or words of another) o Good memory o Overly sensitive to specific stimulants, particularly sound o Problems with food o Difficulty being spontaneous o Notable intellectual potential Kanner labeled the behaviors of these 11 children as having early infantile autism.

• 1944 – Hans Asperger – an Austrian scientist and pediatrician, wrote about his experiences with a group of children he came to call autistic psychopaths. Asperger noted many of the same traits in the children that Kanner studied. However, the one trait he did not mention was the delayed echolalia. Instead, he noted that his group of children spoke like “little grown-ups”. Asperger also mentioned their clumsy motor skills that were different from the average child. If the name Asperger looks familiar, this is because he plays a major role in the history of autism in regards to Asperger Syndrome, now recognized as a specific type of high functioning autism.

• 1967 – Bruno Bettelheim – An Austrian-American child psychologist and writer wrote The Empty Fortress: Infantile autism and the birth of the self. Within his work, Bettelheim discussed three therapy session he had with children whom he called autistic. Bettelheim claimed that the autistic disorder was the result of their mother’s coldness. It was his belief that parents should not be involved in the children’s therapy. This lack of understanding of the condition left many parents wrongly feeling they were somehow to blame.

• 1970’s – Autism knowledge and research spread to Sweden. The Erica Foundation in Sweden began education and therapy for autistic children. During their research, it was discovered that autism was more complex than initially realized. This led researchers down a new path, making them realize, for one of the first time in the history of autism that there was more than one, general cause of autism.

• 1980’s – Autism research really took off and more researchers were becoming convinced that the typical reasons were related to neurological disturbances, which may be on occasion combined with other genetic factors such as chromosomal aberrations, metabolic disturbances, or illness.

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