Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by admin
(from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
A recent study in the journal Pediatrics reports that high fever decreases the symptoms of autism. Many parents have already observed this relationship, but this is the first study that documents the effect. Clinicians have also documented this effect. In 1980, a viral epidemic causing high fever hit Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York. All of the staff there noticed an improvement in the autistic children they worked with. Sadly, after a few days, the fever dissipated and all of the children became autistic again.” The improvement can be very dramatic, sometimes like a metamorphosis in which the child with autism or some other neuropsychological disorder becomes almost normal when they are running a high fever. I present such a case history, titled the “The Sometimes Son” in my case history eBook, Little Bubba’s Not Ready for Nashville Yet.
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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by admin
A lot of you probably saw the story this week on 13 year old, Jacob Grabe, who had autism and was killed by his dad in September. (Autism’s terrible toll: Parents risk hitting “a breaking point”)
The article talks about parents reaching their breaking point and killing their child. These stories are not new and very sad to say the least. I must say that I am more than a little shocked at the number of cases where this has happened. I’ve seen a lot of stories on the “safe haven” laws around the country where parents can drop kids off at a hospital, police station, etc. While these laws are intended to stop newborns from being killed and dumped, I wonder what these laws have to say about special needs children. I know there has been a lot of talk related to age limits after the mess created in Nebraska, but age probably should not be a factor if special needs are involved. Drop me a line if you have any information on this topic.
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