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  1. Hello Supersec, Just to say excellent news, rest up a little save your strength for other battles, well done. Steve..
  2. Thank you Zemanski I was hoping for a response, because indeed like Lucas I am inclined to think that they will know less about Autism and more about the old behaviourist - approach I had not viewed the linked post before i found it most interesting. Thank you for your comments Lucas, personally the old behaviourists sought laws of behaviour that would enable accurate prediction of any response by any person with given conditions around the time they were doing this as I understand it. However at the same time Gordon Allport was suggesting that too much generalising was indeed being used in psychology.Therefore in order to predict behaviour thus, what we learn in general can help us understand an individual, what we learn from an individual can help us understand in general. Interesting to see if this would be used within the course ermmmmmmmmm! Steve..
  3. Hello everyone, justamom if I were you, (which i'm not) personally I would tell him, and give him plenty of time to adjust to it. Even now if I have things told to me last moment I get so stressed out and worried and stuff, my son is just the same if we are given warning then it seems we can prepare ourselves I tend to run through the senario in my head in pictures, sometimes I even play a video like picture in my head ( visual thinker) I play it over and over again I suppose it forms part of my own personal coping strategy, it would seem preparation helps. we both still have meltdowns at last minute changes I dont suppose we are on our own either. hope this helps. Steve..
  4. New Degree Helps Tackle Needs of Children With Autism The first Masters degree in Ireland aimed at addressing the needs of children with autism has been launched at the University of Ulster. From September 2006 the University's School of Psychology at Coleraine will offer an MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). The course is aimed at education and health professionals who are working with children and adults with autism. It will also benefit people working with learning disabilities, general behaviour management, parent training, community development, adult mental health or gerontology. The new Masters programme was spearheaded by the community work of Dr Mickey Keenan, who set up the charity Parents' Education as Autism Therapists (PEAT). PEAT has been working alongside the School of Psychology to help plan the course. The charity has long been campaigning for autism intervention that is based upon sound scientific evidence. ABA is the only intervention and educational approach that has strong scientific evidence to support it. For the rest of this article please use the link http://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/releases/2006/2109.html Steve..
  5. Hello Stephanie, I personally feel that the question, the difference between Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism is and will always remain quite controversial, its an area in which it would seem that even the professionals cannot always seem to agree with themselves. I do know that the criteria in the DSM, which it would seem provides some differentiation of Asperger Syndrome and Autism has been closely examined with several reasearch studies over the last few years or so. criticisms by clinicians and indeed research dont identify according to an article by Tony Attwood, the disorder which Hans Asperger originally described, in fact the four cases in which he described the condition in his original paper would then be diagnosed, as according to the DSM criteria, as having Autism not Asperger syndrome. As such if you were to use the DSM criteria then, Asperger Syndrome would indeed be a very rare condition. A clinician then may well write a report say with a diagnosis of autism, rather than the true dx of Asperger syndrome purely because they feel it would enable the child to have access to classroom support, allowances and government grants which they possibly would not get or be granted if the more accurate diagnosis was taken, now you can see the dilemma here for the clinicians involved. I also feel once the early language problems which are usually found in HFA subside, then I feel there is not much difference if any between the two groups at all ! Steve..
  6. Hello Tylers-mum, Me again I have a question, has T any sensory intergration diffficulities? we have sensitive hearing hyperacusis. I really belive that a great many of our so called overloads are indeed a direct result of sensory intergration difficulties and possibly responsible for many childrens and students difficulties within the classroom. Steve..
  7. I dont really think it matters I suppose it would be determined by the amount of room available, we have quite a few lights, sometimes we will change them around but my favourite by far is the plasma it's just sooooooo interactive I'm sure that you will feel the same. Steve..
  8. Hello Tylers-mum, Here is another which we use you may find some unusual lighting here also hope this helps http://www.thesensorystore.co.uk/ Steve..
  9. Hello again Tylers-mum, I have found this site hope this helps, http://www.gobazaar.co.uk/cosligh.asp?subcat=2q ther seems to be one here priced at ?29.99. Ours is bigger but this seems a decent size for the price. Steve..
  10. Tylers-mum Science Museum Store in London approx ?50.00, we did get ours from ebay slightly cheaper approx ?35.00 but well worth it, hope this helps. Steve..
  11. Hello everyone, Tylers-mum, I would combine the two if it is possible, when my son and myself have bad days or a real sensory overload one of the best things for us is to lie in a dark rooom with some of the various Mathmos type lighting, fibre optics and even a touch plasma light, we would not be without ours I feel it should be a must for anyone if they have the possibility of a sensory room. Steve..
  12. Mother's autism vaccine link bid A mother who believes the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine led to her sons developing autism is to take her case to court. Isabella Thomas, of Somerton, Somerset, claims the health of Michael, 13, and Terry, 12, deteriorated after the jab. Mrs Thomas and her husband Ian, both 48, have decided to take on vaccine maker Merck Sharp and Dohme Limited. A spokesman for the firm said all evidence indicates the MMR jab is not linked to the development of autism. for the rest of this news article please use the link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4791642.stm Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  13. Hello everyone , Zemanski would be corrrect with the G and the Austrian/German angle- however at this moment I much prefer the angle with the ...Jer sound. DaisyProudfoot i am affraid I am with your son as I often find it confusing. However the worst thing of all is the way some people pronounce it as ASS-BURGERS now this reaaly gets me quite angry. Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  14. Hello everyone, seems to be a little early/late as the case may be, you must all be in bed as there is no-one about posting, I have just placed this over on my site and thought I would place it here also. My personal opinion about Chelation therapy is that I would never allow it to be given to my children because I just do not feel that the practice is a safe one if you are not familiar with it :Chelation therapy is a recognized treatment for heavy metal (such as lead) poisoning. EDTA, injected into the blood, will bind the metals and allow them to be removed from the body in the urine. Chelation therapy is not approved by the FDA in America, to treat coronary artery disease, but some physicians and alternative medicine practitioners use it for this purpose. It now appears that the first docmented deaths due directly to this procedure and cardiac arrest in children have now been documented which for me gives even more cause for concern. What are your views surrounding the following news article titled :FDA links child deaths to chelation therapy Drug used to treat lead, mercury poisoning; often used for autism - use the link for the article http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11640868/ Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  15. Welcome to the forum Raimundodude, Great name is that from Xiaolin Showdown. you must speak to someone of the problem you now have. It must be addressed it cannot be allowed to carry on. People with ASD's are indeed picked on by people I have been in your position myself in the past, however not all people are bad but it is very important to stop the ones that are. Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  16. Hello everyone , It would appear curra, that a great many people do make Kim welcome as they travel around the USA. Just prior to any program which may contain similar content to this, I always seem to panic a liittle worrying about the way it may focus too much on some of our special gifts/talents we can have. My area is numbers, and code this also seems to be the area in which my son finds a big interest. One of the specailists in the documentary, Dr Darold Treffert, sent me some information which I have on my main site regarding Asperger and Savant syndrome, although it is not prevalent within the group of Asperger/Autistics it can account for something like 10% of those with AS have Savant skills, it would seem that because of our special interests ( or as some say Obsessions) and the fact that because of the nature of what we have, our ability to focus on things /tasks of interest means that unlike most neurotypical people we are not quite so easily distracted, yet we all it would seem have real problems socially. I heard someone say once about being loud and proud about being Autistic, to that person I would like to say I have Asperger/autism it is something I have always had I am happy as I am, however I can never be loud and proud of something inwhich I have no control over. So I suppose what I am now saying is encourage your child in a positive way in which to persue his/her area of special interest. Kim no longer reads only nonfiction, Fran Peek said, but has dabbled with some fiction, such as books by Stephen King. Because Kim is so literal-minded, his father feared he wouldn't be able to separate fact and fiction. But he has managed to keep them separate, Fran Peek said. He wanted to read the popular fiction because that's what so many people are talking about. Reading about prehistoric times or the Crimean War, which no one's talking about, he does for the joy it gives him. Kim Peek is a popular speaker in the assisted living centers. In one nursing home recently, he was invited by family members to visit a woman who, because of Alzheimer's disease, no longer talks. The woman's son told Peek where she was from and he started listing the roads and the boat harbour, the lake, the picnic spot, the businesses that line the street, memorized from old phone books of her era. She brightened up and even told a simple story herself. other Autsitic Savants : Tim Knab, a Russian artist in the 1830s, known for his cubism and accurate measurement of angles Blind Tom, U.S. blind and mentally handicapped pianist in 1860s Jebediah Buxton, U.S. savant calculator Alonzo Clemons, U.S. wax sculptor Tony DeBlois, U.S. blind and autistic musician Jonathan Lerman, U.S. autistic artist Leslie Lemke, U.S. blind musician with brain damage Vito Mangiamele, Sicilian savant calculator Thristan Mendoza, Filipino autistic marimba prodigy Gottfried Mind, Swiss autistic artist in the 18th century (B. 1768) Gerald Newport, American autistic and subject of the film Mozart and the Whale Hikari Oe, Japanese developmentally-delayed composer Derek Paravicini, U.S. blind musician with learning disability Kim Peek, U.S. savant with eidetic memory and model for Rain Man James Henry Pullen, British deaf-mute "Genius of Earlswood Asylum" Monty Pickren, U.S. autistic clock maker Matt Savage, U.S. autistic jazz prodigy Daniel Tammet, U.K. synaesthetic high-functioning autistic savant Gilles Trehin, French autistic artist and creator of the fictitious city of Urville Richard Wawro, Scottish autistic artist George Widener, U.S. autistic savant, artist with calculator and calendar skills Stephen Wiltshire, British autistic artist Seth F. Henriett, Hungarian autistic savant with multiple autoimmune disorders, poet and writer I will leave it here before I go off on my special area of interest....whoops.....sorry Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  17. This is just totally unacceptable, people on the spectrum like myself do not refer to others on or off the spectrum with the same treatment that sometimes we are expected to put up with. Some teachers can be -for educated people quite ignorant in the way they handle themselves, this brings to mind one of the videos that I have on my forum in which Jackie Jackson mentions, the teacher responsible for Luke states , I know that your son has autism Mrs Jackson, but as far as I am concerned he leaves it on the door step when he comes into my classroom, with comments like this what hope is there to bring awareness- I find in all honesty comments like this give me more incentive to push awareness home even harder and further. Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  18. Hello carole, Personally I also do not like the way Americans tend to view autsim as an illness they often refer to is as a disease which angers me, another thing which can be annoying is when someone who finds out about my AS treats afterwards, then as a direct result, of their newly acquired knowledge it seems that t_h_e_y t_a_l_k r_e_a_l_l_y SSssssssssssllllloooooooooooowwwwww. I'm not stupid or hard of hearing, in fact totally the opposite to both, however one who always perks me up is Temple Grandin I feel she is an inspiration to us all. Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  19. Hello everyone here is a little story complete with video for you to look over, what are your thoughts I have placed this on mine and thought it should be placed over here also. The Autism Society of America says it is one of the fastest growing disabilities nationally and that one in every 166 births, a child is diagnosed with autism, and it?s usually boys. Currently about one and a half million Americans have been diagnosed with autism and about 500 in Kern County. According to Kern Autism Network?s Bonny Hulsy, she says, ?It's just been going like wild fire in the last ten years.? ?And we don't why we're diagnosing it better because I feel that we're seeing more people affected with it,? she adds. Overall, living with autism isn't easy for the person affected by it and their family. But, Eustacia Cutler knows a bit about raising a child with autism. Her daughter Temple Grandin as a child could not speak but she is now a gifted animal scientist who graduated from Harvard. She gave words of inspiration to hundreds of parents and educators. ?I don't think autism is something we're going to cure, but what's much more important is that children be fulfilled,? Cutler said. ?She loves her life and she's good at her life,? she said. ?I'm so proud of her.? C.J. Cullins hopes his son, 4-year-old Simon, will also prosper, as the family learns more on how to deal with autism. ?In the year, he's been in school, he's learned to talk a whole lot and now he doesn't just point at things, he'll actually ask and it's helped out,? Cullins said. Though it has not been scientifically proven, studies are being done to see how much the environment or vaccinations may be impacting the rise in autism. for the video story please use the link http://www.kget.com/mediacenter/?videoId=8965 Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  20. Welcome back, microsoft_admin Steve..
  21. Hello everyone, Here is an interesting article from ABC Science Online, Australia - 7 hours ago, let me know what your views are on this - People with autism are more intelligent and able to function better than previously believed, experts say. But mistrust of doctors, biased tests and the internet have bred myths about the condition. At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, researchers presented reports showing that even people with autism who do not speak can have above-average intelligence. They also offered additional studies disputing claims that vaccines can cause autism. "The current figures are that 75% of autistic people are mentally retarded, with the mute the most ... impaired," says Canadian researcher Dr Laurent Mottron, an autism researcher at Montreal's H�pital Rivi?re-des-Prairies. But Mottron believes the wrong intelligence tests are used to assess autistic children. for the rest of this article please use the attached link http://abc.net.au/science/news/health/Heal...ish_1573742.htm Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  22. Congratulations to Gareth and yourself Amy. Steve..
  23. thank you hallyscomet, an interesting article and video, thank you also Zemanski I too I am a little dubious about the science and possibly methodology like yourself haven't researched it as such, which itself may make an interesting task for me to undertake. thank you. Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
  24. Hello everyone, The following book by Ian Stuart-Hamilton on JKP press titled An Asperger dictionary of everyday expressions. Isbn 1-84310-152-1 Personally being one who can take things quite literally, I find this book this book is a great help it also gives definitions of common everyday phrases as well as a guide for their level of politeness, or impoliteness, it also helps in explaining what people mean when they don't say what they mean. Steve..
  25. This book is indeed very good, I have this one at home, it helps others understand much more. I lend this one out often. Steve.. I think the boy means well but he is distinctly inclined to be inattentive...... Tutor of Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston's father
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