An autistic child whose stress levels are already elevated might have a breakdown in response to stimulation like that.
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An Oxfordshire family have spoken of their distress at being turned down by Australian immigration because of their autistic child.
For the parents of an autistic child, such comparisons can be dangerous.
The National Autism Association conducted an online poll and 92 percent of parents said that their autistic child had a tendency to wander.
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Due to this lapse in expertise and awareness of this mental condition, parents are often in the dark and without guidance in diagnosing and caring for their autistic child.
If families had been sold stripped-down plans and tried, as individuals, to buy supplemental coverage for autism insurers would realize that they likely have an autistic child, predict high costs, and price the supplemental plan accordingly.
From GPS devices and computer programs that help relatives track a wandering Alzheimer's patient to iPad apps that help an autistic child communicate, a growing number of tools for the smartphone, the tablet and the laptop are catering to beleaguered caregivers.
"I wasn't interested in working with a child actor and trying to tell him what it's like to be autistic, " Mr. Fleischner said.
Dr. Gordon and Kevin Pelphrey, director of the Child Neuroscience Laboratory at Yale, recently published preliminary results from a study on autistic kids ages 7 to 18.
In 2004 the autistic daughter of Marvin and Suzette Josif, then 4 years old, was accepted at the New York Child Learning Institute, a private school in Queens, N.
He said by by March 2011, no child would wait longer than 13 weeks for an assessment and he had already established a Regional Autistic Spectrum Disorder Network Group to promote the needs and aims of those with ASD.
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