Management of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Important issues, such as management of associated medical problems, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic intervention for challenging behaviors or coexisting mental health conditions, and use of complementary and alternative medical treatments, are also addressed.Abstract:
Pediatricians have an important role not only in early recognition and evaluation of autism spectrum disorders but also in chronic management of these disorders. The primary goals of treatment are to maximize the child's ultimate functional independence and quality of life by minimizing the core autism spectrum disorder features, facilitating development and learning, promoting socialization, reducing maladaptive behaviors, and educating and supporting families. To assist pediatricians in educating families and guiding them toward empirically supported interventions for their children, this report reviews the educational strategies and associated therapies that are the primary treatments for children with autism spectrum disorders. Optimization of health care is likely to have a positive effect on habilitative progress, functional outcome, and quality of life; therefore, important issues, such as management of associated medical problems, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic intervention for challenging behaviors or coexisting mental health conditions, and use of complementary and alternative medical treatments, are also addressed.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Employing Virtual Reality Techniques in environment adaptation for autistic children
TL;DR: The architecture design of Virtual environment for autism spectrum disorder aims to save time and costs to provide a real environment for autistic children and can lead to the integration of new educational tool that can be used in favor of schooling children with ASD.
Journal ArticleDOI
Processing of emotional words after stroke: An electrophysiological study
TL;DR: Differences in late cortical responses between word types for both groups suggest distinct neural networks involved in the response to emotional and neutral words, even with post-stroke language impairment.
Journal Article
Complementary and alternative medicine
Diane Zabel,Gregory A. Crawford +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a serie de ressources, allant des ouvrages generalistes, concernant les traitements curatifs naturels et non-occidentaux (herbes medicinales, alimentation et complements nutritionnels, huiles essentielles, homeopathie, naturopathie) ou encore les techniques energetiques (acupuncture), are presented.
Investigation of Classification Using Pitch Features for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Typically Developing Children
TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of classification using pitch features is carried out for children with autism spectrum disorders and typically developing children, where statistics (percentiles, moment, maximum, minimum, and range) for static and dynamic pitch features are used for classification.
Book ChapterDOI
Autism Spectrum Disorder
TL;DR: The Primer on Autism Spectrum Disorder provides a quick yet comprehensive overview of clinically-relevant topics related to autism spectrum disorder for the medical or mental health student, trainee, or recent graduate who seeks efficient learning.
References
More filters
Journal Article
[Affective disorders in the fourth edition of the classification of mental disorders prepared by the American Psychiatric Association -- diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders].
Journal ArticleDOI
Behavioral treatment and normal educational and intellectual functioning in young autistic children.
TL;DR: The results of behavior modification treatment for two groups of similarly constituted, young autistic children showed that 47% achieved normal intellectual and educational functioning, with normal-range IQ scores and successful first grade performance in public schools.
Book
Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders
TL;DR: In this article, a sibling's perspective on the diagnosis of Rett's syndrome is presented. But the authors focus on the development and social development of individuals with autism and do not address the social aspects of the disorder.
Journal ArticleDOI
Identification and Evaluation of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
TL;DR: This report addresses background information, including definition, history, epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, early signs, neuropathologic aspects, and etiologic possibilities in autism spectrum disorders, and provides an algorithm to help the pediatrician develop a strategy for early identification of children with autism Spectrum disorders.
Journal ArticleDOI
Adult outcome for children with autism
TL;DR: Although outcome for adults with autism has improved over recent years, many remain highly dependent on others for support and more fine-grained research is needed into the childhood variables that are associated with good or poor outcome.