When the autistic child grows upSusan Senator
One of the biggest mistakes a medical or psychological professional can make about a patient, especially a child, is saying, “He/she will never….” And with autism spectrum disorders, particularly, all bets are off. When my now 35-year-old profoundly autistic son was first ...
For example, let’s say you believe your child should be punished harshly for missing curfew while your spouse doesn’t think a curfew is such a big deal. Or perhaps you disagree on how to handle bad grades, drinking, or an older child who is still living at home and not getting on ...
Hello Lubna, The truth is, 44 is a complicated age to get pregnant. As you may know, the ovarian reserve keeps on diminishing over time, and by age 44 women not only have fewer changes of getting pregnant, but also the eggs they are able to produce present a poorer quality, which mea...
For example, if your social worker calls you with an issue, before you react by saying “fix it right this second or I’m pulling my child out of school.” Ask the social worker to detail out the situation in writing. Let them know you want to know what happened, what was done to...
No. I know because the group leader sent an e-mail to everyone saying that we all need to step up and clean better and some families are doing so much and others aren’t. And if you are someone who doesn’t usually pick up your own child, you REALLY should be doing this. For the...
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When Faith and an Autistic Child CollideWiebe, Bernie
It was as beautiful as it was terrifying. Even as an ignorant young mom, I knew that this was strange behavior, not at all something little boys did. And I felt afearthat was dark and endless. It did not occur to me back then that the error here was mine. Like th...
Clinical psychology A Phenomenological Study of the Circular Causality of Stress on the Marital System when Raising an Autistic Child THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Joseph Futerman FergusonKaren RThis dissertation is a result of phenomenological research completed with five couples to study ...