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Park was driven to write about her daughter's experience with autism, and her book The Siege: The First Eight Years of an Autistic Child was released in 1967, at a time when autism was little understood, and common wisdom based on Bruno Bettelheim's theories attributed responsibility to family pathology, led by the refrigerator mother, a label based on the belief that autistic behaviors are ...
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 ...
Yet autism in the child is likely due to the genetic predisposition rather than the impact of being raised by autistic parents. Thus Bettelheim may have been half correct. Autistic children are more likely to have a parent who seems cold or distant but that is not the cause of the child's autism. [24]
Teachers give Autistic students extra time to answer when they ask them a question. Autistic children take time to process information but they are listening and will respond. Schools dedicated to being autism friendly, like Pathlight School in Singapore, designed their campus to offer students "dignity" in an autism-friendly environment. There ...
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 and ...
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
Filmmakers spoke to an adoptive parent named Ashley, who told her story about adopting an international child with special needs that were so significant that she made the painful decision to ...
The diagnosis of Triplett led to the complex history of autism, which involved many conflicts among autism specialists and advocates. From there, the history of autism would unfold across decades, playing out in many and varied dramatic episodes, bizarre twists, and star turns, both heroic and villainous, by researchers, educators, activists and autistic people themselves.