Autism therapies

mumps, and rubella caused autism. Many believed the scientist claim and stop their children from receiving the vaccines, causing the rate of measles and mumps to rise. Many have questioned Dr. Wakefield’s results and conducted their own experiments causing a controversy. On the internet today, there are many articles claiming vaccine cause autism, and vaccines don’t cause autism. The CDC has released an article clearing out the confusion, saying vaccines do not cause autism. Making it easier for…

Autism can be referred to as a puzzle piece. The puzzle piece represents the medical mystery and complexity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Whether your child has autism, or your child is in the classroom with a child that has autism, it is a subject that we must all familiarize ourselves as well as our children. As an educator, I see autism prevalence in schools on the rise. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) new data has been released that shows 1…

Turner's syndrome is a rare condition that affects females. It results when a sex chromosome (X chromosome) is either missing or partially missing. Turner’s syndrome can cause a lot of different medical problems such as short height, puberty failure, heart defects, learning disabilities and social adjustment problems. It is sometimes diagnosed before birth, during infancy or during their early childhood. Occasionally the diagnosis is delayed until the teen or young adult years in those who have…

My research topic I’m doing is on dyslexia. In case if you’re wondering what is dyslexia is I will explain four types of dyslexia topics and give some details about all four. Dyslexia is a term for some people who has mentally disorders that causes struggling in learning how to read, observe letters that can be seen backwards. Languishing dyslexia could process through the mindset within the growth to the brain to function to its natural ability to gain improvement with highly…

class had to choose one book that pertained to their field of study. I am a psychology major so what pertained my field was human services and the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime demonstrated this. I wanted to learn more about autism because I never really understood what it was and how it affected someone’s way of thinking and way of perceiving of the world. The way the book was written seemed unorganized but this was to describe how personal the character, Christopher,…

1. What is the theory that has brought about public interest in autism? Throughout the news “false claims” have been made stating the theory that vaccines may very well cause autism. Specifically, the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine has been targeted. 2. What evidence supports or refutes this theory? Doctors state that there are no direct links between autism and vaccines. Vaccines are made in order to prevent a child from catching a serious disease that may very well result in death. It is…

The results of the experiment were valuable in addressing the hypothesis under study. However, future investigations may need to adopt techniques that improve upon those used here. 5a. Now in figure 2. the time between steps 4 and 5 was 1 sec, that means the infants had 1 second to absorb information and answer. Now if we were to increase that time to 10 sec that would mean the infants would have a longer time to absorb information and answer which could lead to a different, more similar…

Is Retinitis Pigemntosa treatable? Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a disease that affects the back of the eyes, it usually occurs and starts in children aged as young as 5 have shown symptoms of RP. It starts out only affecting a slight proportion of the eye usually everything is consumed the disease apart from the centre of the eye there is no current treatment for this disease so therefore RP is a disease which tends to lead to complete blindness in young adults. Symptoms of RP tend to be…

two years keeping to himself, not playing or talking to other children, being aggressive, and doing his own thing. This prompted his teachers to reach out to a specialist to intervene. This book examines the effectiveness of non-directive play therapy with Axline, a well-respected child psychologist who wrote this book after helping Dibs, in order to…

people thought caused autism when it first appeared and what people think causes it today. One of the causes for the early days is that people thought cold and responsive mothers caused autism. Today, scientists are still not exactly sure what’s wrong with the brain in autism spectrum disorders, but they do know that the cause is neurological, not interpersonal. There are many areas affected in the brain instead of just one specific area. Genes are also a cause of having autism. It says that…