Chapter 1
An autistic brain has a cerebrum larger than normal and a cerebellum smaller than normal. Usually this disorder is detected within the first three years of life.
Chapter 2
Dr. Leo Kanner, in 1943, released a report of eleven children who were highly interested in unusual aspects of the lifeless environment. The discovery was called the Kranner’s Syndrome.
Chapter 3
A child can show symptoms at birth, which is preferred as the “on-set” stage, during and their 1st and 2nd year, which is preferred as the “regression” stage.
Chapter 4
Aeric, my son was diagnosed wrongfully during his earlier ages, until I attended a seminar with guest speaker, Dr. Cannon, specializing in “autism.” Dr. Cannon, affiliated with the Preventive Medical Group, has done a study for sulfur, which is an individual element that makes up an important part of proteins responsible for hair, muscles, skin, etc. Sulfur is known to treat many disorders that tie into autism.
Chapter 5
Autism effects communication and body language. Social interaction is the most overlooked part of an autistic person’s life, in which they will withdraw from friends, etc. Their behavior is unlike other handicaps.
Chapter 6
Autism usually begins before the age of three and is a life-long disability. This disability had difficulty of mingling with others and has a tendency of repetitive, peculiar behaviors as well. Research has also shown that the Rett syndrome was first discovered by Andreas Rett in 1966 and is a neurological disorder affecting mainly females.
Chapter 7
The behavior of autism can be developed through a collaborative problem-solving process involving mentors, parents, teachers, and special educator’s that the child takes heed to. Also, the learning styles are much different in an autistic person than any other disability.
Chapter 8
Today, there are many medications that have been commonly used for the past five years for autism, but they are not for the entire body. Medications that help the aggressive behaviors fall into several categories.
Chapter 9
According to a handout used in the Detroit autism conference, dated April, 2002, “anti-yeast” therapy helps in autism. The Candida albicans grow in the intestinal tract. Candida albicans make toxic chemicals which hurt the developing brain. This type of element mainly affects the female genital tract. Bacteria are also a resident inside of the intestinal tract, sharing space with yeast. Yeast makes chemicals that kill bacteria and enables the yeast to grow at a higher level, even after the antibiotics have been stopped.
Chapter 10
In June 2000, government scientists and some health officials discovered, through the medical records of 100,000 children, that a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines/thimerosal/appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and many other disorders among children. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants, within hours of birth in one case, the estimated number of cases of autism increased fifteen-fold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.
Chapter 11
Issues between vaccines and autism developed in the 1990’s and intensified in 1998 after reports of a study of 12 children showed reoccurring autism and gastrointestinal disease (Wakefield al. 1998). In 2001, a committee of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences addressed that MMR vaccines and autism spectrum disorders were related.
Chapter 12
Today, the most recent researched information that plays a role in Autism is two areas of the genome monosodium glutamate (MSG). Meaning, free glutamic acid plays a role in the rise of autism. Perhaps autistic children and children with MSG sensitivity who are also sulfite sensitive have this error of metabolism in common.
Chapter 13
Dr. Rebecca Carley, trained as a surgeon at State University of New York in Brooklyn, developed the “Hippocrates Protocol,” which has successfully reversed all autoimmune diseases (including autism) and cancer in over 1,000 clients (including pets) over the past seven years.
Chapter 14
Chromosomal Microarry Analysis (CMA) is a new genetic test that has major advantages over existing chromosomal testing autism. The test uses a DNA chip and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to test for increased or decreased dosage of more than 60 chromosomal regions of known diagnostic significance.
Chapter 15
CMA testing for autism, such as FISH tests, provides a superior alternative for diagnosing the developmental disabilities, mental retardation, and all other disorders.
Chapter 16
Other genetic testing for autism are Routine Giemsa banded karyotype, plasma quantitative amino acid analysis, and more.
Chapter 17
Amongst many famous people with autism was once Hans Albert Einstein. His career was devoted to complex mathematics. His dedication and theories of math were more extreme to solve a problem than any normal person. Einstein, as a child was a loner and a late speaker. He repeated sentences obsessively up to the age of seven. In addition, there are many other famous people’s relatives that have this disability as well.
Chapter 18
Dr. Temple Grandin struggled during her earlier development and throughout her graduate life as a Professor. She wrote Emergence: Labeled Autistic in 1986 and Thinking in Pictures, Other Reports From My Life With Autism (Vintage Books) in 1996, which was voted a Cerebrum “Great Brain Book” Spring 1999.
Chapter 19
In this chapter, Dr. Temple Grandin devotes her time in explaining what is the right job for people with Autism or Asperger’s syndrome in full details from Table’s 1-4.
Chapter 20
Dr. Laurent Mottron, an autism researcher and clinician at Montreal Hospital Riviere des Praires, believes that the wrong intelligence tests are used to asses autistic children. The Raven’s Progressive Matrices test measures abstract reasoning and consistently gives autistic children higher scores according to Dr. Mottron.
Chapter 21
Dr. Derenda Timmons Schubert works with the Pacific Northwest Children’s Services and did an interesting study on preschoolers, elementary schoolchildren, and adolescents.
Chapter 22
In brief, Rachel Evans; Medical Researcher, bionetics, and Jean Genet; Medical Researcher, Myths of Autism, have written many materials related to autism in 2006. They have stated that autism increased by 172% during 1990s and is associated with 75-80% of individuals with retardation.
Chapter 23
In my conclusion, I have stated that during the ‘70s, approximately 27 years ago, autistic people were mainly institutionalized. Today, arrangements are more flexible. Of course, many of the severe individuals still remain in institutions.
