Autism

I am going to open my review with my very strong opinion that WE ARE ALL ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM! This is a topic close to my heart. I have a child with learning and behavioural difficulties, many of which reflect ASD Autistic Spectrum Disorder. My daughter is a patient at the local children's centre that specialise in children with special needs. My daughter has been given a diagnosis of ADHD but they also want to look into ASD with her. I have chosen not to go down this route at the moment, not because I don't want my daughter to be labelled as Autistic (I have no issues with labels at all) but because I personally don't want to sit there again, ...  Read the complete review

This was originally on CIAO reviewing the book titled below. I'm going to keep it as a book review despite the book not appearing on Dooyoo because anyone who finds themself in the same position as me will benefit from this book. Autism Spectrum Disorders - Chantal Sicile-Kira Just as an introduction, I am a special needs teacher and I specialise in teaching sport across the ages of 11 to 16. As part of my job, I deal with a number of children from different backgrounds and conditions, from physical disabilities through to behavioural problems. In particular our school has a dedicated ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) unit and I ...  Read the complete review

I dont know where to start with this one. Its a painful and long hard trek that takes me back to the birth of my little autistic boy 39 years ago. I am now a pensioner and hope you will forgive an odd blip or two over the years where I may have forgotten some dates etc. All I can do is relate my story to best of my ability. Here goes! For the sake of anonymity I will call my wonderful son Stefan. Obviously this is not his real name which I feel for his sake should remain unknown. One warm Saturday evening mid September in l970 my little boy wonder was born in the maternity wing of Slough General Hospital. He was my second baby ( the first also ...  Read the complete review

Autism like many other people my only knowledge of this disorder was the film Rain man. , which portrays a serverly autistic man who is also a savant. whist this film helped to inform the public about autism it unfortunatley gave out the idea that all Autistic people had savant skills , such as a computer like memory for dates figures and facts . when in actual fact savants are very rare. So when i had my son eleven years ago, the thought that he could have autism never crossed my mind. When he had his two year assessment and was well below the expected level of development worries started to set in . He was referred for checks on his sight , hearing and to ...  Read the complete review

When I was a child I had no idea what autism was - it existed of course, but children back then were transported to special school in their "special" bus and we never mixed with them. I first became aware of it when my nephew was diagnosed at the age of 8 with Aspergers Syndrome. I live some distance away from him and I recall seeing him when he was 4 and it was patently obvious to me that he had issues of some kind - he refused to look me in the eye, wasn't particularly communicative and frequently asked me to "shh" by putting his finger over his mouth. I remember mentioning to my mother that there was clearly something wrong, ...  Read the complete review