Is the mother of an `` autistic '' child at fault??

We don't think she can make her child defective, emotionally disturbed or autistic.

As the mother of an autistic child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he first plays with a new toy.

As a rule, the autistic child doesn't enjoy physical contact with others.

The answer is different for each autistic child, but for most there is an answer.

He told screenwriter Melissa Mathison about Night Skies, and developed a subplot from the failed project, in which Buddy, the only friendly alien, befriends an autistic child.

Ratnam maintained a momentum of making emotional stories of under-served people through the film Anjali in 1990, which starred Raghuvaran and told the story of an autistic child who changed the lives of people around her.

* Hans Asperger first adopts the term autism in its modern sense in referring to autistic psychopaths in a lecture ( in German ) on child psychology.

Schawlow and Professor Robert Hofstadter at Stanford, who also had an autistic child, teamed up to help each other find solutions to the condition.

Bettelheim and his first wife Gina took care of Patsy, an American child whom he later described as autistic.

* El Toro Rojo-Renegade fighter ; Delta Network member ; he was bonded to Tupac Amaru, an autistic child.

Though there is a statistical pattern for a significantly high risk to have another autistic child in families with an already affected child.

It has also been hypothesized that autistic children initiate joint attention perhaps even as often as their neurotypical peers, albeit in atypical ways, and that a parent should join an autistic child's focus of attention and try harder to notice the child's atypical requests for attention rather than insist on typical behavior from the child.

* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2003 novel by Mark Haddon, written from the point of view of an autistic child

Balin is mildly autistic, and as a child he struggled with this while growing up in Ohio, and it affected him into his adulthood.

Greg Allen came up with the name Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, from a young autistic child who would smash light bulbs and say, " Too much light makes the baby go blind ".

Although autistic people may also be selectively mute, they display other behaviors — hand flapping, repetitive behaviors, social isolation even among family members ( not always answering to name, for example )— that set them apart from a child with selective mutism.

This would cause anxiety and a sense of being overwhelmed in unfamiliar situations, which may cause the child to " shut down " and not be able to speak ( something that some autistic people also experience ).

Lenny Schafer is the adoptive parent of an autistic child.

Each child participated in four, one hour sessions consisting of 15 minute periods of play with either a typically developing peer or a lower functioning autistic child with major deficits in pragmatic communication, social interaction and self-care.

It should be noted however that some autistic children will react strongly to bright colors, and that the use of paint and paint-brushes can lead to accidents that may greatly upset the child.

This is that autistic people don't enjoy physical contact with others -- for instance, my children and I.

`` Dear Doctors: We learned this year that our older son, Daniel, is autistic.

`` What is your experience with autistic children??

One of his sons is autistic and Dembski has attributed some of his son's problems to vaccines.

Some argue that it is misclassified as an autism spectrum disorder, just as it would be to include such disorders as fragile X syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, or Down syndrome where one can see autistic features.

Also, RELN is located at chromosome locus 7q22, which is associated with susceptibility with autism, and reduced levels of Reelin are found in autistic brains examined postmortem.

Christopher, whose son, Ned, is autistic, devotes much of his spare time to the National Autistic Society, doing public service announcements to bring attention to autism.

In the 2011 film Red Riding Hood, an autistic boy named Claude is burned to death in a Brazen Bull shaped like an elephant in an attempt to force him to reveal the identity of a werewolf.

Garden City has four elementary schools in operation ; a closed elementary school, one middle school, a high school, a special education high school, and is also the location of Burger School, which is for autistic children.

Brick Township has also been in the news for a claimed autism epidemic, in which 40 children out of over 6, 000 surveyed were found to be autistic, though Brick's autism rate is statistically not far removed from national average.

He is generally quiet, distant, uninterested in people and is said to be autistic, but has a soft spot for his close friends and the model Shizuka Todou, for whom he has harbored feelings for since childhood.

In 2007, after Frame's death, The New Zealand Medical Journal published an article by a medical specialist who proposed that Frame may have registered on what is referred to as the autistic spectrum, a suggestion that was disputed by the author's literary executor.

There is a moment of hostility when Api breaks free, resolved when Hobson explains that his son, who was autistic, drowned in a bathtub, and Hobson felt Api was making fun of this.

The movie is about an autistic person who defies existing social customs and traditions for a good cause.

In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, the main character, Christopher Boone, is a 15-year old autistic boy with total recall abilities.

* Derek Paravicini is a blind autistic savant and musical prodigy.

* Matt Savage is an autistic savant and musical prodigy with a number of talents including extremely high intelligence, hyperlexia and perfect pitch.

* Stephen Wiltshire is an architectural artist and savant who is moderately autistic and has an eidetic memory.

However, Rain Man has also been seen as dispelling a number of other misconceptions about autism and improving public awareness of the failure of many agencies to accommodate autistic people and make use of the abilities they do have, regardless of whether they are savant skills. Rain Man has been listed as one of the best movies on the subject of autism.

In the sci-fi thriller Cube, one of the prisoners, Kazan, appears to be mentally disabled but is revealed later in the film to be an autistic savant, who is able to calculate prime factors in his head.

* Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant, stated Esperanto as one of the ten languages he speaks

Before they head to the park to meet another autistic group, he tells one member, Gracie, to gather the women and he'll gather to guys to practice telling personal stories, but keeps getting distracted by performing mathematical sums of the microwaves depleting numbers.

Maggie O ' Connor's ( Kim Basinger ) life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna ( Angela Bettis ) abandons her newborn autistic daughter, Cody, at her home.

He is considered to be one of the fathers of applied behavior analysis ( ABA ) therapy for autism through his development of the Lovaas technique and the first to provide evidence that the behavior of autistic children can be modified through teaching.

Aghwee was one of the first in Ōe's series of stories inspired by the birth of his autistic son Hikari.

Alice Miller, one of the best-known authors of the consequences of child abuse, has maintained that autism is psychogenic, and that fear of the truth about child abuse is the leitmotif of nearly all forms of autistic therapy known to her.

High-functioning autism ( HFA ) is an informal term applied to autistic people who are deemed to be " higher functioning " than other autistic people, by one or more metrics.

* High-functioning autism – an informal term applied to autistic people who are deemed to be " higher functioning " than other autistic people, by one or more metrics.