#autism

#autism

Diagnosed with autism at 14 months, Aubreigh Osborne started this year struggling to control outbursts and sometimes hurting herself. Her trouble with social interactions made her family reluctant to go out in public. But this summer, they started applied behavior analysis therapy, commonly called ABA, which often is used to help people diagnosed with autism improve social interactions and communication.

Maybe you've even enrolled in one of these programs-only to watch your emerging adult withdraw further or completely shut down. I've worked with families who invested significant time and money in conventional programs with devastating results. In one recent case, after 18 months with no progress, the program recommended dropping their autistic son at a homeless shelter to motivate him. This would have been a disaster because it completely missed what was actually happening.

If President Donald Trump wanted Americans to take away one message about autism, it was this: Blame Tylenol. During his September press conference on the subject, Trump warned pregnant women more than a dozen times not to take the drug, even though two massive studies had found no meaningful association with the disorder in children. He also spread false rumors that "essentially no autism" can be found in Cuba or among the Amish.

A single mother to two autistic children, who had to leave her home in Bray at the end of November, has been placed in emergency accommodation over 100 kilometres away in County Wexford, despite both of her children attending primary school in the town.

The increase in reported mental health problems and neurodevelopmental diagnoses, and services not keeping pace, reflect what many clinicians see every day people are in more distress and unable to access support. The suffering is not fake, nor is it a case of gen Z malingering. Patients are struggling with what were once ordinary demands of life: school, work, relationships and family, complicated by the aftermath of Covid, with blurred boundaries between home and work, and life lived increasingly on screens.

Now her organisation works with more than 90 artists each week, providing studio space, materials and tuition. Some of their works have been exhibited, commissioned and sold, with artist Shruti designing the advent calendar for beauty brand Lush, and Seatton painting the cover art for Irish music artist CMAT's second studio album, Crazymad, for Me. Meanwhile, Richard's painting called SHIP was featured in last month's edition of the House and Garden magazine.

As the weeks near towards Christmas Day, one young Wexford child is preparing to give the greatest gift of all; inspiration that anything can be overcome with hard work and passion. Nine-year-old Poppie Davies Messett from Gorey, was born with a brain injury to parents Hollie Davies and Gary Messett. Having spent days in the ICU and been just recently diagnosed with autism and dyspraxia, Hollie never imagined that she would be bringing her daughter to rehearsals after being offered a spot on the Late Late Toy Show.

As a mum, it was heartbreaking to see. The impact has left him emotionally distant, unable to trust, and a shadow of the vibrant person he once was. For years, we pleaded with the council to do more to help our son, only to feel ignored, dismissed, and gaslit. Only once we consulted lawyers did we realise just how poorly the local authority's conduct and inaction had been.

Young man's parents say he was in the midst of mental health crisis at time of incident - and is now in legal limbo

All people have strengths and resources. Assess for, and focus on, these strengths and resources, and not on weaknesses and deficits. Utilize and leverage them when designing interventions. Each person is a unique individual. Each person has their own goals, values, and ways of experiencing and being in the world, along with their own unique sets of strengths and resources. Individualizing interventions is key.

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Bill Gates played a key role in keeping Robert F. Kennedy, Jr out of President Donald Trump's first administration, a new book says. When Kennedy met with the president-elect at Trump Tower in early 2017, he told reporters afterward that Trump had asked him to chair a "commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity." Spokespeople for Trump later put out a statement saying that no decision had been made, and Kennedy ultimately never joined his first administration.

During a police interrogation, Northern told police he snapped after Tsui sprayed him in the face and allegedly brandished a wrench at him. I haven't been getting enough sleep for a long time because of him, so I snapped. And then just did that, Northern told police, according to a transcript of the interrogation. I have no intention of embellishing, trying to make my self sound any better or worse. Is he going to be okay? Or am I probably going to go to prison?

The error by HM Revenue and Customs emerged 48 hours after the Guardian and the Detail reported on hundreds of families in Northern Ireland who had child benefit stopped after they returned home from holiday via Dublin airport, leaving HMRC with the impression they had taken a one-way ticket out of the country and were fraudulently collecting child benefit. It has now come to light that HMRC sent out letters questioning the residency of 23,489 of the 6.9m in receipt of child benefit across the UK.

A boy with severe autism who died in a fire in Oshawa earlier this month was a joyful and friendly child who loved dancing to Disney songs and playing dress up, his mother said. Bentley Dunn, 11, was found dead inside a trailer that had caught fire on Oct. 18. He loved to run around and be free, he was very much a free spirit, said his mother, Amanda Dunn.

"We live in an age where social media informs and often defines younger generations' understanding and experience of themselves," said Elana Himmelfarb, an autism spectrum consultant. "Sexuality is part of identity, and HDTRH's son - like all young people - deserves an intentional, calm, fact-based and supportive approach to this new phase of his personal development."