Autism is a complex neurological disorder that dramatically affects people?s behaviors and social interactions. The disorder can be revealed in early childhood, by the age of 3. Although the first signs of autism can sometimes be identified in infants, the disorder is usually discovered at a later stage of life. Autistic children present a wide [...]
Asthma is the inflammation of the air passages resulting in the temporary narrowing of the airways from the nose and mouth to the lungs. Symptoms include difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing tightness in the chest. In severe cases, it can be deadly.
Traditional medicine has yet to find a cure. Asthma is a very old disease [...]
Parents suspecting that their child might be suffering from autism should pay attention to any sign that may reveal the presence of the disorder. The signs of autism are best to be discovered during the child?s first year of life, in order to minimize the harm caused by the disorder. Signs of autism can sometimes [...]
Affecting three crucial areas of development: communication, social interaction, and creative or imaginative play, Autism is a brain disorder that begins in early childhood and persists throughout adulthood. The specific cause or origin of autism is not known, however, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetically mediated vulnerabilities to environmental triggers.
Some professionals estimate that [...]
Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that usually affect the motor function of the person who has it. Cerebral palsy is not a progressive disease, meaning that the symptoms do not get either worse or better with time. Cerebral palsy usually affects either one or both of the arms and legs, though [...]
Stuttering, scientifically known as stammering is a speech disorder in which the normal flow of speech is frequently disrupted by repetitions of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, pauses and prolongations that differ both in frequency and severity from those of a normally fluent speaker.
The term stuttering is most often associated with involuntary sound repetition. An [...]
Is your child getting enough sleep? How can you tell and what can you do about it?
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) released a survey which estimated that one-third of toddlers and preschoolers and nearly one in four school aged children aren’t getting enough sleep.
The consequences for lack of sleep are hardly unknown to parents who [...]
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Approximately one percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime ? more than two million Americans suffer from the illness in any given year. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens [...]
One of the important things about taking responsibility for your own health (and this means relying on physicians, nurses, and even bloggers as consultants) is realizing that the information given has to be weighed by you and that you have to make the ultimate decisions about your health.
It also means that some of the things [...]
Introduction
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a psychiatric behavior disorder that is characterized by aggressiveness and a tendency to purposefully bother and irritate others. These behaviors cause significant difficulties with family and friends and at school or work.
Oppositional defiant disorder is sometimes a precursor of conduct disorder. Much of the literature tends [...]
