| Your Autistic Child Can Have a Better Life | | | | in their own home and environment. |
| If you are a parent of a child recently diagnosed as | | | | The Choices - Medical Therapy or Behavioral Therapy |
| autistic, it is important to know that with positive | | | | or Both? |
| intervention, your child can have a better life. | | | | Of course, there are those who may opt fully and |
| As a parent, you may feel powerless to do anything | | | | solely for a medical therapy - this is a choice for the |
| on knowing of your child's diagnosis. For the first time in | | | | parents to make. But there are many stories of |
| your life, you are faced with startling and bewildering | | | | parents who have adopted both medication and |
| medical terms such as "Autism, Asperger syndrome, | | | | behavioral therapy - including lifestyle adjustments - |
| Rett Syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder" - | | | | leading to substantial recoveries. These stories and |
| and the worst thing to do is to allow yourself to fall into | | | | parental experiences when shared provide a ray of |
| an abyss of self pity and worry, and not to do | | | | hope and indeed provide help for other parents with |
| anything. It is not the sin of your child to be autistic, | | | | autistic children. |
| neither should you allow the blame game to prey on | | | | Specialized Schools for Autistic Children |
| your mind. It is of utmost importance to know that you | | | | It is good also to seek out specialized schools for |
| as the parent is the best person to play the active role | | | | autistic children - whether in the private or public school |
| of the "advocate" for your child who is autistic. If you | | | | system and talk with these educational providers. |
| as the parent does not play that role, how will your little | | | | These schools have well developed and specialized |
| one fend for himself? Your role of advocate starts the | | | | educational systems that help in educating the autistic |
| moment you realize your autistic child needs you, and | | | | child, and especially in training them with fundamental |
| accept it that many autistic children have had a better | | | | skills to help them in life as an adult. |
| quality of life with positive intervention than if left alone. | | | | Hope and Recovery |
| What do I mean by positive intervention for an autistic | | | | You may feel drowned by the weight of knowing your |
| child? | | | | child is autistic. It is important not to let this feeling of |
| Really, you cannot fulfil a role without proper | | | | helplessness to overwhelm yourself. With systematic |
| knowledge of what you should do. Therefore, gaining | | | | positive intervention, your autistic child has every |
| knowledge about the intervention process is important. | | | | chance to live a better life as an adult and to recover |
| Here, you are not alone, because there is a | | | | in many ways. Do not events dampen the hope you |
| storehouse of experience provided by parents of | | | | have for your autistic child, but look forward to the |
| autistic children, past and present who are able to help | | | | time spent together in close bonding as you help him or |
| you. Many parents of autistic children have laid out in | | | | her through her paces as you take up the mantle and |
| full and in great detail in many forums, societies and | | | | role to intervene positively for the betterment of your |
| associations, their past experiences which serve as | | | | autistic child. |
| guidelines on how to cope and work with their children | | | | |