Today is WORLD Autism Awareness Day!! The UN has actually declared Autism is an epidemic while the CDC is still yet to declare this as an epidemic!! Jenny McCarthy was on Good Morning America (and is so amazing!!!) To see it go here. I just hope to help educate as many people as I can and help bring awareness to this horrible epidemic!! If anyone EVER has any questions, please feel free to ask!!! If you want, you can email me at briannamallen80@yahoo.com
*I just got this part from another blog I love to read:
I urge everyone to learn the signs and symptoms of Autism.
And they can be varied:
* Speech delay
* Or the other side which is no speech delay but intense interest in ONE thing (like trains for example) and a young, young child being able to know EVERYTHING about that one specific category.
* Repetitive behaviors
* Lack of eye contact
* Aggressive behaviors and/or self-injury
* Fixation on random objects (my son used to get attached to weird things and HAVE to carry them around)
* Low muscle tone* Sensory issues - sensitive to touch, sound, failure to respond appropriately to pain, likes to be hugged tight or the other extreme - hates to be touched.
* GI problems, constipation or chronic diarrhea
The whole month of April is Autism Awareness Month. I urge everyone to learn all they can about this!! Early intervention is the key!!! Jack is doing awesome!! He is now approximating (trying to make the right sounds with the right syllables) close to 12 words. Just a few weeks ago, he was only doing ONE approximation!!! It's AMAZING!!!
1 comment:
BZ-- thanks for posting this.
I can't believe your seet baby Joe! So sad. I hope things are getting better there for you guys.
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