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Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) – a trademarked proprietary treatment program for autism spectrum disorders (ASD), based on the belief that the development of dynamic intelligence is the key to improving the quality of life for individuals with autism. Son-Rise – a therapy encouraging adults to connect with autistic children.
However, because my son is autistic, I sought extra help from many psychologists but discovered that finding the line between his autism and bad habits was ultimately up to me. The specialists ...
The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism (Japanese: 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～, Hepburn: Jiheishō no Boku ga Tobihaneru Riyū ~Kaiwa no Dekinai Chūgakusei ga Tsuzuru Uchinaru Kokoro~) is an autobiography attributed to Naoki Higashida, a largely nonspeaking autistic person from Japan.
Autism rights activists say that "tics, like repetitive rocking and violent outbursts" can be managed if others make an effort to understand autistic people, while other autistic traits, "like difficulty with eye contact, with grasping humor or with breaking from routines", would not require corrective efforts if others were more tolerant.
By Chris Taylor (Reuters) - When Linda Mercier's son Sam was around two years old, she knew something wasn't right. Sam was becoming withdrawn, not speaking or playing with other kids, and focused ...
1979 Surviving and Other Essays, Knopf, New York (Includes the essay "The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank".) 1982 On Learning to Read: The Child's Fascination with Meaning (with Karen Zelan), Knopf, New York; 1982 Freud and Man's Soul, Knopf, 1983, ISBN 0-394-52481-0; 1987 A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-Rearing, Knopf, New York
Eighty-seven percent of families with an autistic child report that they don’t take family vacations, according to a 2019 survey of 1,000 parents by the International Board of Credentialing ...
Parent-mediated interventions offer support and practical advice to parents of autistic children. [69] A 2013 Cochrane Review found that there was no evidence of gains in most of the primary measures of the studies (e.g., the child's adaptive behaviour), however there was strong evidence for a positive pattern of change in parent-child ...