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Mar 3, 2017 · The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 68 children in the U.S. have autism. The prevalence is 1 in 42 for boys and 1 in 189 for girls. These rates yield a...
- An Early Arrival, An Early Diagnosis
- A Study Looks at Moms of Two Children with Special Needs
- Two Diagnoses, One Expected and One A Surprise
- Finding A Kindship with Autism
- The Family Link
- Multiple Children, Multiple Rewards
- Additional Resources
- References
Cindy Yeager's twins, a boy and girl, arrived early, as twins often do. She credits a friend, an occupational therapist, with pushing her to enroll them in Maryland's program for infants and toddlers with developmental delays. A teacher in that program noticed that her son, Aaron, flapped his hands, a behavior often seen in autism. That led to appo...
Parenting two children with special needs is particularly challenging, according to one of the few studies focused on this issue. Researchers studied mothers who had a teenage or adult child with autism, and a second child with autism or a different disability. Those mothers had more symptoms of depression and anxiety than mothers who had just one ...
Amanda Olsen was concerned about autism, but only in her youngest daughter, who is now 8. "She was not connecting to other people very much. She didn’t interact much. She would listen, but she wouldn't look at you," she said. So she made her an appointment for a psychological evaluation. Around the same time, one of her older daughters told her tha...
After the girls were diagnosed, a therapist told Mrs. Olsen that their autism likely "didn't come from nowhere," she recalled. "There's a strong biological component." As she learned more about autism, she came upon a book by a woman with Asperger's Syndrome and recognized herself in its pages. "I read a list of traits for female autism, and it was...
Researchers interested in autism genetics have studied the unaffected parents and siblings from families with multiple children with autism. These family members are more likely to have conversational and social difficulties than 1. families who have just one child with ASD11-13or 2. families with typically-developing sons and daughters.14,15 That ...
Despite the additional challenges, parenting multiple children with autism also brings additional rewards. For the Yeager family, caring for Aaron may have sparked a desire for independence in his sisters, Mrs. Yeager said. They like to help their brother, and pull together as a family, but they also are self-reliant, she said. "They don't like to ...
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Dec 21, 2021 · Recognizing signs of autism in babies is challenging because language and social skills have yet to develop. Here are 6 early signs of autism to watch for.
We discovered that women at the beginning or end of their childbearing years — those in their teens or in their forties, roughly — are also more likely to have children with autism. And the biggest risk here is when older men have children with much younger women.
Apr 28, 2023 · When it comes to siblings, the research is clear: When one child is diagnosed with ASD, the next child to come along has about a 20% greater chance of developing ASD than a child with neurotypical older siblings. And when the first two children in a family receive that diagnosis, the chances go up to 32%.
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A University of Barcelona study published in May 2021 in the European Journal of Epidemiology involving more than 73,000 mother-and-child pairs across Europe found that children exposed to acetaminophen before birth were 19% more likely to have autism and 21% more likely to show signs of ADHD.
