Impact of the Diagnosis Message to Doctors
Video Summary
Christian's mother discusses her difficulty finding doctors with expertise in autism and its treatment. She describes her struggles finding appropriate treatment and support after Christian was diagnosed as particularly difficult.
"Message to Doctors: You really owe it to yourself and to your patients to educate yourself. If Christian had had cystic fibrosis or leukemia, any pediatrician would have done a great job with him. Because he had autism they just didn't know..."
— Mom of Christian H.
Keywords
- Autism-General Information
- Early Intervention (EI)
- surveillance of children 0-3
- autism causes
- Early Signs
- assessments
- pediatrician's role
- genetics
- Family Life
- raising children with autism
- parenting
- search for diagnosis
- grief
- impact of diagnosis
- advice
- General Behaviors
- loss of skills
- screaming
- Therapies
- Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
- Verbal Communicative Skills
- loss of language skills