Growing in to Autism

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Johnson, C. P. (2004). New tool helps primary care physicians diagnose autism early. AAP News, 24(2), 74. But there are many ways to help minimize the symptoms and maximize abilities. People who have ASD have the best chance of using all of their abilities and skills if they receive appropriate therapies and interventions. This tendency to want to fly under the radar can impact those around the individual with ASD in a number of ways. First it can give us the false sense that things are progressing well. Often as parents we find out later those things aren’t progressing well at all.

Many people with autism have slight changes, called mutations , in many of these genes. However, the link between genetic mutations and autism is complex: Wolff, J. J., Gu, H., Gerig, G., Elison, J. T., Styner, M., Gouttard, S., et al. (2012). Differences in white matter fiber tract development present from 6 to 24 months in infants with autism. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169(6), 589–600. Because Murray understands language his situation is fairly rare. “Just a small proportion of autistic people will have good intellectual functioning, good understanding of language but an inability to produce speech. And for some of those, they'll be able to use alternative augmentative communication devices, (like a tablet or laptop) to independently type for example.”The Section on Molecular y conducts research on a potential new endophenotype of ASD related to hypocholesterolemia.

The session will cover many topics, including why autism statistics are confusing and misleading, the myth that children grow out of autism, masking and camouflaging, remembering who your client is, how childhood interventions can impact on Autistic adults, and how you can help us find our place in the world. Results showed that infants who later received an ASD diagnosis had slower brain responses to sounds during their ABR tests conducted at birth.Restricted or repetitive behaviour or interests like having to do the same things in the same way over and over again, or getting upset when things aren’t done the same way every time. The gastrointestinal, or gut, microbiome is another area of interest to researchers looking for factors that contribute to autism. Jain, A., Marshall, J., Buikema, A., Bancroft, T., Kelly, J. P., & Newschaffer, C. J. (2015). Autism occurrence by MMR vaccine status among US children with older siblings with and without autism. JAMA, 313(15), 1534–1540. Retrieved September 8, 2016, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25898051 Another objective of the study is to differentiate the physical and behavioral characteristics of autistic children, children with other developmental conditions, and those without these conditions.

It’s really beneficial for those of us who are involved in supporting individuals with autism to understand the concept of “flying under the radar.” Investigators found that, after the MTT treatment, participants experienced more gut bacterial diversity. National Research Council, Committee on Educational Interventions for Children with Autism. Educating Children With Autism. Lord, C., McGee, J. P., eds. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2001. In a 2-year follow-up investigation, researchers found that the participants who received MTT treatment still experienced fewer GI issues and a continued improvement of autism-related symptoms. Masking is physically and emotionally draining, and leads to a range of negative outcomes such as exhaustion, burnout, anxiety, and depression – as well as negative self-perception and low self-esteem.Our approach to understanding the biology of autism is going to revolutionize how we diagnose and treat autism. Autism is diagnosed through behavioral assessment, but there are underlying biological reasons for the disruptions in neurodevelopment that result in the behaviors of autism.” Have autism numbers risen, or are we just over-diagnosing our children to explain away behaviour we don’t understand? A great deal of evidence supports the idea that genes are one of the main causes of or a major contributor to ASD. More than 100 genes on different chromosomes may be involved in causing ASD, to different degrees. 3, 4