Aspirations vs Expectations
A couple of years ago, I came across a very useful paper that helps deal with that nagging question all parents of autistic children probably have; that question is of course what will the future bring? The paper is called Counseling Parents Regarding Prognosis in Autistic Spectrum Disorder . It is only three pages long and it is free to download. It is written by a very experienced Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician called Dr James Coplan, naturally he is an American. He has an excellent website and he has his own channel on YouTube . There are 4 short videos about the history of treating autism and one quite heavy one about challenging behaviors in autism . In one he comments that autism is 130 years behind most areas of medical science. He certainly knows his stuff, but he is not a researcher like us. Coplan applies four premises:- 1. Atypicality (how autistic you are) occurs along a s...