| TV and autism
Posted: 2/13/2008 3:12:00 PM | Ok, i can speak from experience on this thread.
I have a 23 year old son who has aspergers , it is a branch of autism.
Ok, do i associate this condition with watching TV?
NO I DON'T
My son was never able to sit for more than 3 minutes and concentrate on anything , let alone TV, I wish he had of at least i would have had a little respite lol
Even now he has no interest in tv.
He now has his own flat and lives independently , ask him if he watched corrie he will reply, why waste time staring at a goggle box
lol
Hugs
Carol
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| TV and autism
Posted: 2/17/2008 4:47:25 PM | | My kid is autistic and never has watched tv. its to abstract for him i think. As far as the vaccines go its proven to cause some forms of autism. Just googhle Robert kennedy and rolling stone and you can read a very scarey article about the govt supressing that information and why. Its a wide spectrum which i think has many causes for it as the kids can be so diffrent. Finding a reason may lead to a 'cure'. I dont feel its a waste of time for them to look at it. With the rising rates im surprised we hear nothing ion the media bout the reason. Just once in awhile a story on autistic kids and ABA etc but never on why the incidence rate is increasing. In the last 5 yrs its gone from 1 in 192 births to 1 in 150 and the media is silent. | |
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| TV and autism
Posted: 2/17/2008 6:38:11 PM | I understand about the exposure that Autism has on television. Unless you are in a parent's shoe there isn't many who know what is going on with YOUR child, except YOU. Even my children's doctors and therapist get their lead from me. I hate the fact that most documentaries or movies or tv shows demonstrate various view points but none the less very dramatic. Probably to sell the show, sell the products, sell the unbelievable panic in the rise of Autism diagnosis over the last 10 years.
On another note...I have to say that both of my children (son is diagnosed with Autism-PDD and daughter is PDD-NOS) benefit from the tv... I guess as a parent it is up to me what they watch. Their favorite show is Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The kids understand the concept and how it is helping others who need help. | |
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| TV and autism
Posted: 4/18/2008 6:19:33 PM | I would guess the TV should have a positive effect on autistic children to help connect them with the world. The TV has far more social interaction than toys or other objects they can spin for hours in an autistic trance. Other children will not provide an autistic kid social interaction as they don't get the responses they want from him.
Wow! Isnt that the truth?!! My son is 5 yrs old and has autism. When my son was younger he didn't used to watch much tv because as you are stating he was more busy spinning, arranging and lining up stuff. Once he was 3 yrs old they did an IQ test on him and he scored 65 (mentally handycapped) and no social skills. From 3 yrs to 5 yrs his interest on TV and computers grew. To me this was an improvement because some interaction is better than none. So his TV and computer time increased these last 2 yrs. He was recently re evaluated due to some awesome acquired skills and guess what? His IQ went to 113. Did TV helped my son? Not sure but seems like it. | |
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| TV and autism
Posted: 4/18/2008 11:14:53 PM | | I am sick and tired of treating autism like it is as bad or worse than ailments like cancer and other terminal issues. Kids are kids, let them be spaced out. Life is not designed for the one kind of person that hails to be this side of perfection. I just can't wrap my head around why Autism is so darn dangerous to our children. | |
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| TV and autism
Posted: 4/19/2008 11:16:06 AM | Honestly, I think tv can contribute to a lot of issues with kids, from learning problems (when the child does nothing but sit in front of the tv) to behavior and violence issues, as well weight problems. That said, I think they are full of crap when they say it is a cause of autism. It is my belief that autism is something that is brought about while the fetus is forming and growing in the womb. The childs brain is wired different. Sometimes the symptoms of autism can take a while to show after birth- but that is just how the disease works. It's got nothing to do with watching tv. Personally, from my experience as a mom with an autistic son, My child didn't watch tv to speak of the first 3 years of his life. He couldn't sit and watch it- because he didn't have the ability to keep his attention on it. He is getting to where he can watch a few minutes of it now- he's obsessed with thomas the train! The kicker here, isn't that he watches it. He just has to hear it playing in the background. Also, while pregnant for my son, there was a lot of other complications, such as failure to thrive in utero, very low amniotic fluids, cysts on his brain, and as the doctor stated "a possibility of a chromosonal abnormality". Put together with medical problems after birth, I'm convinced autism starts at conception. Finding the cause will entail more pre birth testings and monitoring of chemicals, toxins, hormones, the whole nine yards- PRIOR to childs delivery. My opinion, they want to blame tv- not because of a medical or scientific discovery, but rather a lack of one. When they cant find an honest to god answer- they make assumptions and hope they are right. Besides that- like others have said, the finders of this assumtion have no medical backing in regards to their assumtion on a medical condition that affects many wonderful children. They need to just step back and admit they have no grounds to be making these off the wall assumtions, and leave it to people with more knowledge in the field....IE>>>>medical doctors and medical research scientists.... then maybe the tv thing would have a view worth looking at. Until then, it's 67 pages of toilet paper.
JMHO- quote me if you want
Lisa | |
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| TV and autism
Posted: 4/20/2008 1:37:42 PM | | From my personal experience I have to disagree with any relationship between tv and autism. When my youngest son was diagnosed at 2 years old he would not even look at us let alone take interest with a tv. After many years , many therapies both traditional and standard , one of them must have worked because he talked to me for the first time when he was ten. He started with a complete sentence. He had not ever taken much interest in tv then all of a sudden tv became an invaluable teaching tool. It's as if he needed to crawl with it first watching the baby shows but he quickly developed interest in adult learning channels , and of course the standard classic hero movies all kids like. Since autism effects the ability to interact I've always used any interests he's had as a starting tool to show him other things. For eg, when he was set to attend a dance recenty we watched a movie where in one scene people were dancing. This gave me an oportunity to suggest ways for him to act at the party. I just cannot see tv as having any factor with autism. C | |
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| TV and autism
Posted: 4/21/2008 7:24:53 PM | | Okay i think i can put this theory to rest. I had twins 23 years ago. Both wathched extensive tv programing. The male has FRAGILE X (a mental disabillity) while the female is fine.The male (my son) is in a home while my daughter (who made the deans list) lives with me. Both still watch extensive tv programing.. | |
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| TV and autism
Posted: 4/21/2008 9:45:59 PM | I'm a mom of a daughter who has autism. A few days after she was born I had this gut feeling something was different about her. So, I did things normally with her, well as much as I could. I did everything I could to help her out and never took her slow progress as a negative aspect of her humanity, that has paid off more than anything!
Over the next few years I had doctor's, parents, teacher's, and a whole community of poeple telling me a million different things about my daughter and autism. I was going out of my mind. Till finally, I reminded myself that she is my daughter and I know her better then any of them. I also know how to read and look for creditable information.
I went straight for medical texts, old and new. Googled information, books written by parent's and by people with autism. Mostly I have watched and learned from my daughter. She has been the best teacher in many aspects of autism and life itself.
The best thing you can do for any child, disabilities or not. Is to love them and never let the sky be the limit. There will always be statistics, doctors, medical findings and what not. But you only have one chance at truely loving your child for who they are and not what they are diagnosed with.
On a side note: I feel that autism is caused by many factors and that there is still a lot of reserach to be done on it. Autism was first coined to reflect adult schizophrenia, then later in the early 1940's Dr. Kanner did a study on a group of children that had little to no human contact at a very early age.
The medical community will always be questioned, wheather it be by the medical commuity itself or by someone with an opinion.
Stay positive! =D | |
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