Parents
Autistic Teens
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Reaching an Autistic Teenager
MELISSA FAY GREENE | New York Times
On a typical Monday morning at an atypical high school, teenage boys yanked open the glass doors to the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga. Half-awake, iPod wires curling from their ears, their backpacks unbuckled and their jeans baggy, the guys headed for the elevator. Arriving […]
Some Parents Share Traits
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Parents of Autistic Children Are Often Aloof Themselves
HealthDay News | Washington Post
THURSDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) — New research shows that some parents of autistic children appear to be “socially aloof,” providing more evidence that some aspects of autism are hereditary.
“This manifests as a tendency not to prefer interactions with others, not to enjoy ’small […]
Fathering Autism
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Fathering Autism | A Scientist Wrestles With the Realities of His Daughter’s Illness
Shankar Vedantam | Washington Post
In Bethesda, a 15-year-old girl talks to her television set. Often, she seems more connected to the tube’s ghostly embrace than to her own father, mother, brothers and sister. She flushes household items down the toilet. She has no […]
Autism Parents and Mental Disorders
Monday, May 5th, 2008Mental Disorders In Parents Linked To Autism In Children, Study Shows
ScienceDaily.com
ScienceDaily (May 5, 2008) — Parents of children with autism were roughly twice as likely to have been hospitalized for a mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, than parents of other children, according to an analysis of Swedish birth and hospital records by a University of […]
Parents Suffer Too
Monday, May 5th, 2008Parents are autism’s hidden victims
Paul Nyhan | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sharky Munat was 2 years old when the police came.
For 45 minutes the toddler’s screams pierced the thin walls of his mother’s two-bedroom apartment, until a neighbor finally called the cops.
His mother was used to screaming from her unusual child, who cried for hours if she simply […]
Depression and Autism
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Relieving Parental Stress and Depression: How Helping Parents Helps Children
Connie Anderson, Ph.D. | Interactive Autism Network
It is not easy to be the parent of a child on the autism spectrum. There are joyous moments, but there is no denying the challenges parents face, and the toll these take. Parents worry themselves sick, fight for services, […]
Rainbow Spectrum
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Help Build “Rainbow Spectrum” Site for GLBT Parents of Children with Autism
About.com
April Wheeler is the mom of a child on the autism spectrum - and a member of the GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transexual and Questioning) community. She is in the process of building a site, Rainbow Spectrum, to address the needs of parents with […]