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  • A Picture Says a Thousand Words For Autistic Children Is This True?
    Pictures, visual aids can improve communication between parents and their children, that have Autism Spectrum Disorder or, other disabilities. Visual aids helps children with autism, to understand directions, how it affects their world, and what is expected of them.
    Posted: 2009-10-02
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Could Singing And Music Making Be A Tool For Autism? Find Out
    Autistic children tend to enjoy repetitious motion and words. With singing and repeating words to music, children with autism learn to formulate words, and sounds. It helps their listening skills to relate words and sounds, to develop pictures in their brain. It also encourages them to understand rhythm, the coordination of different sounds to make music and develop motor skills.
    Posted: 2009-10-02
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Does A Healthy Diet Influence Autism? If So, How?
    If you have a child living with autism, you have probably heard the publicity and asked yourself how does a healthy diet influence autism? There are many different points of view on how diet actually affects children with autism, including eliminating gluten from the diet of your child, removing casein from dietary choices, for example excluding nuts, soy, and eggs from daily consumption.
    Posted: 2009-09-29
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Do Autistic Children Laugh-Out-Loud For No Apparent Reason? Find Out
    Many parents report their autistic children laugh-out-loud, for no apparent reason. Parents, or outsiders who are unfamiliar with autism, find it difficult for them to understand, and often socially embarrassing. It is important to keep in mind that autistic children have difficulty with proper reactions to social situations, which is why they often laugh out loud for no apparent reason
    Posted: 2009-09-28
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Find Out Why Autistic Children Slap Repetitively
    Why would a child want to cause self inflicted injury? It appears to be the repetitiveness that the autistic child is after, and that they can actually feel the repetition, which may be calming to a child who is overstimulated. The identification of pain that the slapping causes, is not always felt by the self-inflicted injuries done by the autistic child, so he/she keeps doing it.
    Posted: 2009-09-24
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Poisoning in Autistic Children With Mercury. Is This True?
    Many vaccines contain mercury, often at levels that are high enough to cause problems in children. Because of the possible link to autism, many drug companies have created vaccinations that do not include mercury, although many others still exist that contain mercury. Most medical research studies claim that there is no link between vaccinations and autism.
    Posted: 2009-09-23
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Is There a Clue That Sudden Outbursts of Anger and Temper Tantrums Are Associated With Autism?
    Temper tantrums and anger outbursts can not immediately be diagnosed as autism. Usually autistic children have a large number of these which last for long periods of time. There is no explanation as to why these outbursts begin or how they end. Sudden outbursts are often laden with rage, anxiety, and panic
    Posted: 2009-09-14
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Mercury, Vaccinations, and Their Associations With Autism
    Vaccinations containing mercury could possibly be one of the most harmful things we do for our children, while trying to actually do the best for them. For a parent who has a child living with autism, they are familiar with the possible link that has been well publicized between mercury, which has always been included in many childhood vaccinations, and autism.
    Posted: 2009-09-09
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Gluten Free and Casein Free Diets and the Autism Connection
    Some children may not be able to digest casein and glutens, which is where the problems begin. It is thought that possibly if these things are not digestible, they remain in the system, and turn into peptides or opiates in the body, which cause different reactions and odd behaviors.
    Posted: 2009-09-07
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • How Does Diet Affect Autism Symptoms And What Can Be Done To Change It To A Healthy Diet
    Genetically modified foods pose a health risk throughout society and it is thought that this is particularly important when it comes to those who are vulnerable through autism to allergies, immune system issues and digestive challenges.
    Posted: 2009-08-27
    Category: Health & Fitness