Autism Video Helps Tell

Posted October 16th, 2007 by LaraPiu

learning disabilities

A while back there was some talk about Autism and I seem to recall that moms were interested in early detection signs. A elementary school psychologist reccommened the following new tool:

www.autismspeaks.org

Video clips on the site show children who have been diagnosed so that you can actually see what to look for.

Thanks for the information.

On October 16th, 2007 lisamommy says:

Thanks for the information. I'll pass this along to some friends who were inquiring about 'signs'.

LisaMommy is a 38 year old discussion leader for arizonamoms.com from the Paradise Valley/Scottsdale area. Her two boys are ages 9 months and 3 years old.

I got the following info

On October 16th, 2007 MollyDonnelly says:

I got the following info from Autism Today. There is a tele-conference anyone can see the 17th (tomorrow) and the 24th on Autism. You can sign up to watch the conference in it's archived version or watch it as it happens. Best of all, it's free! Here's the info...

There are to online conferences, the first on October 17 and the second on October 24th:

Autism Program Part I: The Early Warning Signs, Diagnosis, Intervention, Treatment and Management of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Infants, Children, and Young Adults http://www.epliveonline.org/military_071017.html

Autism Program Part II: Psychosocial Issues That Impact on the Overall Management of Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children and Young Adults http://www.epliveonline.org/military_071024.html

These are very helpful

On October 16th, 2007 DesertMom says:

These are very helpful resources you all have listed. Autism is so incredibly difficult to diagnose since it entails such a huge spectrum, and of course, each kid is completely unique and may not fit the textbook symptoms perfectly.

It took years and many different diagnoses before my son was finally correctly diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I'd suspected for a while that he had it from all the reading and research I'd done, but was told by one top psychiatrist at Phoenix Children's Hospital that he didn't have Asperger's simply because he was a late talker, and apparently late talking isn't part of the Asperger's criteria. But what the psychiatrist wasn't taking into account was the fact that my son was three months premature -- there was a reason he was a late talker.

There are so many variables involved and some symptoms may cross over into other areas. (ie: kids with Asperger's often have Tourette's or OCD, etc.) Such a challenge being a parent sometimes!

DesertMom
http://ppdsurvivor.blogspot.com

Two of my kids have

On October 17th, 2007 MollyDonnelly says:

Two of my kids have Asperger's and adhd. The problem with being diagnosed with Apsergers in the US is that the DSM-IV manual differentiates autism and aspergers by a speech delay. If you had a speech delay, then you can't have aspergers even though their psych/ed profiles put them right there at the typical aspergers profile. The trouble with that is that most kids with autism have speech delays and aspergers falls on the autism spectrum as a high functioning type of autism. If you read any of Tony Attwood's stuff, he claims that almost 40% of his Aspergers patients had a speech delay as kids. Australia doesn't have that differentiation between speech delays and autism and aspergers! I think our country will revise that profile sooner or later, but until then, our kids are stuck in limbo. Very unfortunate!