Feeding Issues and Autism
Parents and caregivers of children with autism frequently report that feeding issues are of great concern on an ongoing basis. Research has confirmed that the eating behaviors of children with autism vary markedly from their typical peers.[i] Those with autism experience significantly more feeding problems and eat a significantly narrower range of foods than children who do not...
Organic Living
Autism and related disorders have confounded doctors and parents alike for decades; treatment options and methods have done the same. Our children are individuals who deal with many varied issues that fall under the same, all-encompassing banner of “Autism Spectrum Disorders” and they should be treated as such when it comes to looking for that perfect treatment option. The one...
Teaching Children Who ‘AUT’ to be At Home
After homeschooling my autistic daughter for five years, I wonder … would Pamela have ‘met’ Stephen Foster, Mary Cassatt, A.A. Milne and Laura Ingalls Wilder in special education? Would she have gone to a sleep-over last winter? Would 35 children have attended her last birthday bash? Would her artistic gifts have bloomed in school, where she despised pencil and paper? Would...
Healing the Gut in Teenagers… And Beyond
Pam Ferro, RN is a parent of a child with autism, the co-founder of Hopewell Associates, Inc., the Director of the Children’s Autism Program at Hopewell, a Defeat Autism Now! practitioner, and the President of the Gottschall Autism Center. Autism is a whole body disorder. It is a complex, multisystem problem that may be caused by a variety of genetic predispositions and...
