Could #marijuana really help effects that come with #autism? - http://clapway.com/2015/07/20/can-medical-marijuana-ease-severe-side-effects-of-autism-221/

Two months ago, the Medical Marijuana Review Panel has made their case that marijuana might be able to ease severe side effects of autism and the motion seems to be now considered for approval in Michigan.

Parents Want to Treat Children with Marijuana

The fact that marijuana can relieve the side effects of other diseases, such as glaucoma, cancer, HIV or hepatitis C is already known. But will it be approved for autism, as well?

Even if there have been opinions against the use of marijuana, when it comes to autistic children, quite a large number of parents are beginning to use medical marijuana to help their kids deal with the severe symptoms whatever disorder or disease they have might bring.

Marijuana Should Be Used for Aggressive Behaviors, Doctors Say

In accordance with the advice given by many doctors, it seems that medical marijuana should only be used for aggressive behaviors and meltdowns in autistic children. However, there are many parents who are already treating their children with this plant.

According to their declarations, the kids managed to achieve a more normal life since they started the treatment with marijuana.

The Marijuana Approval Meeting Postponed

A meeting to decide if marijuana should be accepted as part of the autism treatment was supposed to happen today. However, the Michigan Medical Marijuana Review Panel postponed action Monday in order to allow the members to read the research. They will meet again on 31st of July.

The members have information regarding both sides of the problem: those who proposed medical marijuana as a treatment for autism stated that the oil extracted from it can control the behavior of autistic persons. However, their opponents strongly believe that there is not enough information that sustains this affirmation, considering that marijuana is not helping people with autism.

The Panel Will Make a Recommendation in Favor or Against

There are more people who are in favor of allowing medical marijuana as part of the autism treatment. However, the decision is in the hands of the director of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.

Until this moment, in Michigan, medical marijuana can be used against the side effects of cancer, glaucoma, HIV, hepatitis C and a few other conditions. But in order to know id autism can be treated with this plant, we have to wait until the end of July.

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Can Medical Marijuana Ease Severe Side Effects of Autism?

Tech every speech pathologist should know about. - http://clapway.com/2015/07/01/how-a-learning-app-can-help-improve-conversational-skills-of-kids-with-autism/

I am not yet a parent. Though I am an aunt to 3 toddlers, I still do not make parental decisions on a daily basis, and the only experience of raising anything I have is my dog. And she’s kind of a jerk sometimes.

One tool I’ve seen, especially in younger parents, is the use of electronics at a young age. This is a pretty controversial subject in the parenting world, according to my mommy friends.

Are they too young to be playing games on your iPad? Are they too young to always be looking at a screen? I know I want my kids to play outside and experience the dirt and the bugs, because as small as that sounds, those experiences help shape us as adults. However, there can be many advantages to those games and learning apps you see the child in the booth next you is playing. A study done by Common Sense Media says that there is a difference between active time and passive time playing on tablets.

There are many learning apps and games for children of all ages. I’ve played games with my nephew in the backseat of his mom’s car as we’ve gone out to lunch. He might be smarter than me and he’s only 3. He speaks complete sentences and knows bigger words than most 3 year olds do, and his mother attributes those abilities, in part, to the things he’s learned from those games. In fact, there is a new iPad learning app that is designed to help children and young adults with autism to significantly improve their conversational skills:

“I Can Have A Conversation With You”

This new app was created by speech pathologist Karen Kabaki-Sisto. It is a social language therapy system that teaches children with autism how to begin a conversation, maintain one, and end one in a much better capacity than before. It teaches them gestures and body language, how to understand and express words, and feelings that might occur during a conversation with someone and to handle them.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tells us that autism rates have risen over the last ten years, so now is a perfect time for Kabaki-Sisto to put her learning app out there to see what it can do. The goal of this app is to create a non-conventional and interactive approach to the current hurdle that people with autism face. This app is available for iPad only and is in the iTunes Store for $29.99. The response to this app from parents and other speech therapists so far has been incredibly positive. This app is not only for children with autism, but can help so many other children who might have Asperger’s or other social and pragmatic communication disorders.

While iPads and other handheld devices seem to be taking over the world, I find comfort in the fact that there are learning opportunities with these devices. Not only for children but adults as well.

How A Learning App Can Help Improve Conversational Skills Of Kids With Autism

There is Something you Need to Know About Autism Treatment - http://clapway.com/2015/06/21/there-is-something-you-need-to-know-about-autism-treatment-654/

Kendra Gandharba, a clinical music therapist working in Nepal, once told me that the greatest challenge in autism treatment is early intervention. “He is one of our most difficult kids,” he said while playing the keyboard with Shyam (name changed), a six-year-old boy with the Autism Spectrum Disorder, a condition affecting social interaction and communication skills.

“Autism is a complex and life-long disorder. We have been able to raise levels of awareness, younger kids are increasingly getting diagnosed,” Dr. Sunita Maleku Amatya, Chairperson Autism Care Nepal, told me.

She is the proud mother of a 9-year-old autistic boy.

AUTISM TREATMENT: THE SOONER THE BETTER

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one child in 160 has an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Latest studies have, however, reported rates that are considerably higher.

In the most recent study on the long-term success of an early autism treatment, a group of researchers suggest that intervening with one-on-one treatment when children are still toddlers can reduce symptoms in the long run.

ONE NON-MEDICAL THERAPY SHOWS PROMISING RESULTS

The therapy used for the study, known as the Early Start Denver Model, is a non-medical yet comprehensive early intervention approach developed for children with autism. It usually starts when children are just 18 to 30 months of age.

For the purposes of research, it involved therapists and parent-led treatment with toddlers in their homes for more than 15 hours each week over a period of two years.

According to lead author Annette Estes, director of the University of Washington Autism Center, early interventions “can make a big difference” in people’s lives.

AUTISM TREATMENT SHOULD FOCUS ON EARLY INTERVENTION

This innovative model was designed to focus on stimulating young children with autism inside a positive, affect-based relationship. To this end, deep parental involvement is fundamental.

Parents receive a manual available to the public in more than a dozen languages in order to help children exhibiting early signs of autism, such as trouble speaking, repetitive behaviour or failure to reciprocate facial expressions.

The research team found that two years after completing this innovative form of autism treatment, children maintained improvements in overall intellectual ability and language and showed new areas of development in reduced autism symptoms.

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