Since my son has dignoses with autism. I have a wide eyes open to this dignoses. It's so much to learn and understand. So what i have learn i dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum and throughout the life span, for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. I try to support; increasing understanding and acceptance of people with autism. my son is has autism; and advancing research into causes and better interventions for autism spectrum disorder and related conditions.
What really cause Autism
The information below is not meant to diagnose or treat.
A common question after an autism diagnosis is what is the cause of autism.
We know that there’s no one cause of autism. autism develops from a combination of genetic and nongenetic,
A child will develop autism. However, it’s important to keep in mind that increased risk is not the same as cause. For example, some gene changes associated with autism can also be found in people who don’t have the disorder. Similarly, not everyone exposed to an environmental risk factor for autism will develop the disorder.
Autism’s genetic risk factors
Autism tends to run in families. Changes in certain genes increase the risk that a child will develop autism. If a parent carries one or more of these gene changes, they may get passed to a child (even if the parent does not have autism). Other times, these genetic changes arise spontaneously in an early embryo or the sperm and/or egg that combine to create the embryo. Again, the majority of these gene changes do not cause autism by themselves. increase risk for the disorder
Autism’s risk factors
increase – or reduce – autism risk in people who are genetically predisposed to the disorder. Importantly, the increase or decrease in risk appears to be small for any one of these risk factors.
Increased risk
- (either parent) advanced maternal age over 35 year of age
- Pregnancy and birth complications (e.g. extreme prematurity [before 26 weeks], low birth weight, multiple pregnancies [twin, triplet, etc.])
- Pregnancies spaced apart (less than a year apart)
Decreased risk
- Prenatal vitamin containing folic acid, before and at conception and through pregnancy
How do these genetic and nongenetic to autism? Most appear to affect crucial aspects of early brain development. Some appear to affect how brain nerve cells, or neurons, communicate with each other. Others appear to affect how entire regions of the brain communicate with each other. differences with an eye to developing treatments and supports that can improve quality of life.
The return to school will look a little different this year after a year filled with uncertainty and new routines. While you may be returning to a more typical school year, the transition away from established pandemic guidelines may present challenges, and we may have to remain flexible about changes in guidelines throughout the school year.
COVID-19 relief package passed in March of this year, includes $3 billion in dedicated funding for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) programs. The $3 billion allocated to IDEA will go a long way in easing the financial burdens felt by schools and helping them meet their service to students with autism and other disabilities.
Talk to your school leadership about the funding your district received as part of this plan and how they will be using it to help your child make up for disrupted learning or lost skills over the last school year.
Don’t forget as a parents you have the right to call a meeting with your child’s IEP team to discuss how your child’s goals will change in order to make up for lost time, or a regression in skills, knowledge or behavior. Prepare for the meeting by writing out how you feel the pandemic impacted your child’s education, as well as things the team may be able to do to help get back on track. As your child’s go back to school meet with IEP team, you can be your child’s advocate to help focus on recovering any lost skills or learning that your child experienced with the pandemic.
It is important to be realistic and remember that despite all your best efforts, change may not happen immediately. It will take time for your child to readjust to school and regain some of their lost. But patience and collaboration with the IEP team, in time your child can continue making progress toward reaching their full potential. I am working on this for Brad because the school get funding
If you need additional information and resources help you prepare, check out my website at www.livebeyondautism.com am here to help in anyway
My Back to School and COVID-19
What was once a place to sleep, eat, home is now also a place to call school due to a worldwide pandemic. Are students, teachers, and parents ready to incorporate school as their virtual reality at home? I have never experienced something like this in my life. This is going down in history as the best test of strength all over the world.
I think the new school setting is the change we need in order to keep everyone safe. Online classes may create new challenges for students but is a safer route to continue education instead of potentially contracting this deadly virus. My thoughts are that kids will have a deeper understanding of technology and how important socialization is. This is the time that families have to be stronger than ever. Parents will have to become teachers, students will have to learn self-discipline, and teachers will be put to the test on their technological abilities while instructing classes.
The world is experiencing this pandemic in many stressful ways. With an unstable household, I can’t imagine the difficulties and struggles that particular students will be presented with while school is mandatory to attend at home.What can students who have a crowded and distracting household do to concentrate on their online classes? I hope obstacles at home can access and to maintain academic stability.
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Being a working mom is difficult. full time working mom is hard. You have to figure out a way to balance all of your household duties, children, husband and anything else that’s tossed at you, all the while making a living for your family.
Working too much are not too much has become quite popular for moms who have autism kids but still need to make money. I would love to work as home moms so that i can truly learn quicker ways to manage it all and have time to help my son with reading doing math and have me some me time. just that moments. I could do better making sche
MAKE A SCHEDULE
The key to having more time in the day as a work from home mom is to make a schedule and stick to it! Using a block schedule where you assign specific times of the day to various tasks, including your work tasks, will help you stay on track with work and other duties so as long as you hold yourself accountable to not stray from this schedule and if you must stray slightly, make it a good reason. this is why I would love to work from home
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When my son got his autism diagnosis, one of the first things I needed was support. And one of the first things I did? I started looking for resources in my area however there was no support. The only support was me and my husband on how to create and nurture a strong support system. As a parent of an autism child, this was one of the most important things I could have done. So now, I want to share this to the world and with everyone our journey.
As a mom we often see what we want to see, but the true is we have to fight for our kids to get support help and to understand our child needs but not always, we are one who holds the family together.
Mom and dad is the strong foundation for our kids, we are the glue. We are the keeper of the family. We are the caregiver. We are also the provider or the breadwinner.
And guess what… Am still struggling. And may not always recognize it this is for real. I may not always say it aloud. I may not always ask for help.
But am still struggling.to fine help for my son
The sleepless nights.
tears eyes .
constant worries.
Still outward but I have to maintain strong.
I insist myself that I can handle autism.
When you ask me I may tell you that nothing is wrong.
Some days, it may be difficult for us to get to put it out there that we need help for son especially the meltdown his anxiety not to mention ADHD but we have to keep pushing for our boy.
He is a good kids but Florida especially the county that am in doesn’t help much I have learned Encouragement strengthen labor.
Some nights, we may not sleep.
Some moments, I may wonder if it’s all going to work out.
We still struggling. But we have to stay strong. And we will get through this.
How do I know?
Because I am that mom.
Because I know.
Because I struggled.
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Aggressive behaviors are one of the biggest struggles that parents of Autism children face, but unfortunately, we have to “eliminate the behavior”.
The problem is, aggression in Autism children isn’t as simple as them misbehaving, and some tactics are actually likely to make the aggression worse.
See, Autism children are never aggressive for no reason.
But just because they have a reason doesn’t mean that we can just ignore the aggression and hope it goes away.
Steps to Deal with Aggression in Autism Children
If you’re dealing with aggression from your Autism child, it can be easy to feel completely defeated.
Traditional parenting strategies aren’t working.
You know that your child’s aggression isn’t their fault, but you’re also getting concerned about the safety of your other kids or those your child is hurting.
Before you can truly handle your child’s aggression in public we need to check assumptions.
Ultimately we want to stop the aggression before it happens of course, but until then we need a plan for how we will handle aggression when it happens. So how do you handle aggressive behavior with your kids
- Hitting?
- Kicking?
- Scratching?
- Pushing?
- Pulling Hair?
- These are some of my best ways to keep people safe during aggression are:
- Separate by removing other people from the aggressive child
- Redirect by directing the aggression to an object rather than a person
- So tell me your best way to keep others safe during and outburst
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For some people, leaving the house is as easy as opening the front door and stepping outside. For autism kids is extra challenges.
I am asking autism perent what a typical morning trying to leave the house felt like:
"My morning is going up and down, sometimes good sometimes it’s a mess a hole lot of mess I have to plan a head so I can try to have a smooth morning and out the door and all is good with a lot of work. Then you realize that you have to go out. Suddenly time goes in slow and fast motion all at once. It doesn’t matter at that moment leaving the house could be something you are looking forward to or dreading. It is the action of having to leave the house that is Then comes the need to run through your route to get where you are going. This can be anxiety.
You realize that somehow you have now lost lots of time and before you realize it you are suddenly running late. You can’t leave the house without following certain procedures and now you have your child telling you that they are going to be late for school and mommy you need to hurry up. Only if he know he is the one actually make you late This doesn’t help because now there is an extra layer of anxiety which you are unable to process and will most likely respond in some type of a way.
before leaving the house I try to end the battling with Brad so I don’t get the meltdown. "
So when schools give awards to students for being punctual, and punish those who are late, what they are actually doing for those diagnosed with autism diagnosis is punishing them for having a disability.
If schools welcomed autism children with warmth and congratulated them for making it there, they would feel far more accepted and worthy. Their self esteem would be higher and they would work harder.
Attendance and punctuation with autism kids is very hard to get them though that door every morning can be a challenge so rewards your self when you get your kids to school on time
So let me know how you get though the door every morning with a AUTISM ADHD AND HIGH LEVEL anxiety child may be your routine could help me are someone else
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ABOUT ME
thanks for stopping by! I'm Stacey-Ann, am a wife, the mother of two amazing kids Deja and Brad this is my blog where I love sharing my day to day life as a mom. Brad is my youngest he diagnose with autism spectrum, and currently very-verbal. Here on my blog I share stories of our everyday lives, the highs, the lows, and everything in between. I'll also give others a chance to tell their stories
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