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Page Count: 272
Printing Date: August 04, 2005
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In Neurology of Autism, Mary Coleman, Catalina Betancur, G. Robert DeLong, Christopher Gillberg, Yoshiko Nomura, Lorenzo Pavone, Martin Ruggieri, and Michele Zappella use the tools of neurological analysis to address a number of the major questions that have arisen in the study of autism. The answers they present have important implications for the direction of future autism research, diagnosis, and treatment.
What are the neurological signs and symptoms of autism? The latest information is presented here in an in-depth discusion of epilepsy, cranial circumference, changes in muscle tone, stereotypies, and mutism found in children with autism. In addition, a template is provided for practitioners to follow when conducting neurological examinations of a child with autism. What are the best options for the treatment of autism? The current medical, educational, and alternative therapies are thoroughly reviewed and evaluated. Is autism reversible? The question is explored for syndromic autism, where diseases may have a transient autistic phase, and reviewed in detail for nonsyndromic autism.
Is autism primarily a single disease, as originally described by Leo Kanner? Research presented here suggests that autism is, instead, a syndrome involving many disease entities. Has the incidence of autism been increasing in recent years? A sophisticated, historical review of autisms prevalence rates suggests that it has never been rare. What is the relationship between autism and Asperger syndrome? The latest evidence presented here sheds light on the degree to which both syndromes share more than clinical characteristics; they also have some similar findings in imaging, neuropathological, and genetic studies. Which components of the brains neural networks need to be impaired to cause the appearance of autistic symptoms? Although there are many candidate regions, dysfunction of the cerebellum and its circuits is noted to be of great interest. Student and professional researchers, practitioners, and parents will find this book to be a valuable resource for both the latest information from basic-science research and its application to the diagnosis and treatment of autism.
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I have a 3 year old son with autism (PDD-NOS). I'm so impressed with this book. I've been told by many a doctor how autism is not treatable. So as his Mom I've been on a quest to help him to recover. I've read many books since his diagnosis a year ago. This book has great information about treating autism, naturally. The chapters are well written and there's plenty of resources listed with addresses and websites. It's a keeper.
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Being one of those rare humans who was diagnosed as being autistic in childhood, had seizures and seemed to "outgrow" everything but a tendency toward introversion, love of solitude, animals and music, I must say that this book is refreshingly honest. It does not skirt the issues of autistic humans who are "coddled" and whose screams and tantrums get them pretty much anything and everything they want, while allowing them to rule the roost in all aspects, be it whether people are laughing and enjoying themselves or flipping out about something "they don't get".
One of the great differences in me was I am autistic and I was not coddled -- quite the opposite. My seizures were of the grand mal type and this was my response to sensory overload when I was unable to "escape". I was not put into a special school, although I was mute for five years. My IQ just gets me into Mensa, so when testing was done on the assumption that I was retarded? Oh well. Best look elsewhere for answers. I grew up in a home that was violent and dysfunctional. If I threw a tantrum, there was a (typical drunk) adult who would happily throw me down a flight of stairs and pull me back up that flight of stairs by my hair. Why? Because the protections weren't available then as they are today. I never bonded with either of my parents...reasonably typical, I've learned. Having no brothers or sisters, I spent a great deal of time alone, in the woods and in the company of domestic and wild animals. Animals always felt kind and comforting, while humans seemed anything but.
Recently I worked with a young adult woman whose mother is a Mental Health professional. And the young woman patterned herself after the mother. When the mother began to take my presence and work for granted and showed disrespect for me, guess what? That's right...so did the daughter. The daughter threw tantrums and would bellow at me so loudly I feared my eardrums would burst when I would ask her to do a simple task...this after I'd worked quite successfully with her for a few months.
I got no help or support from the mother. Oh, no, her precious daughter was not capable of manipulation or meanness! It had to be MY problem. Her daughter wasn't sophisticated enough to behave in devious ways. Ahem. It got so that every time I worked with this young woman, she would have this crisis or the sniffles or a stomachache. Or she would simply pitch a fit because I laughed at something and she would accuse me of "making fun of her." This fits were usually done in the presence of mom, where they would have maximum effect and get desired results.
She was and is a spoiled and tyrannical young woman who will not succeed until she learns that there is variety in the world and there is laughter in the world and it is not unreasonable to expect chores to be done and work to be completed. The mother accused me of "overloading her kid" when I asked the young woman to bring a pair of socks with her and take apart and pack up her laptop in its carrying case. This young woman had pointed to the laptop and loudly said: THERE IT IS. Well, young woman, I was hired to teach you, not to be your slave. I ask gently: "Do you know remember how to take your laptop apart and put it into it's case?" YES...! Now the young woman is bellowing at me every other minute: "I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS." This person is HFA and I most certainly was not overloading the young woman. Young woman goes and "tattles" to mom, saying I am stressing her out. Mom proceeds to read ME the riot act.
The mother, who asserts her kid can do no wrong, verbally attacks and humiliates me in public and curses me and the local High School, questions MY understanding of autism (been there, done that, still with me and wish it wasn't, "lady"). Mom makes a LOUD scene outside of the room I'm renting...loud enough that everyone around is looking and hearing. And I'm thinking: WOW. You know it was really horrible growing up abused, but I certainly never was spoiled and I quit acting like this "lady's kid" by my mid-teens. My seizures gradually stopped and I've not taken any anti-seizure meds since about the age of 19. THANK YOU for this book, which demonstrates that not only can autistic children be tyrants that will happily tear down the walls and bring misery to everyone around them, but they WILL if they are not in some way shown their behavior will not rule the roost and will not be tolerated as is.
This "lady" once told me her greatest fear was that her daughter would end up in a group home. Guess what? Your coddling and demonstrations of disrespect for others who work with your daughter (that would include the kid's father) are what professionals like yourself refer to as Self-fulfilling Prophecy.
I was fired for systematically and gently attempting to teach this young woman how to work with computer software and peripherals. For every bit of progress ... Read More
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