Diagnosing Autism Earlier In Life

This could be a significant help to people with autism! If they can diagnose someone with autism before age 1 year they will have so much time in their early developmental stage to help them. People with autism not making eye contact with other people is one of the biggest things associated with autism so I can see where that would be a helpful tool in diagnosing it. In the first trial almost half of the test patients that did not make much eye contact developed autism. That is a very large number for the very first trial, it must mean something.

In the first few years of life a person learn the most. It is shown they take up the largest amount of information in their first five years of life. Most children now are diagnosed anywhere from age two to five, taking up almost all of their curtail developmental time in their life. This can be a very good reason children are not developing as well as they could. If they were diagnosed earlier then they could have the proper treatment, or learning catered towards their needs so they can develop to be all that they can be.

People with autism generally do not like to make eye contact. I have found out by reading books from people who have autism that it is over stimulating. Carly said something like her brain takes a lot of “pictures” of people’s faces, especially when they make eye contact. This could definitely be a sign that someone having autism. I see this as more of a first hint to go get them checked for a test and keep an eye out for further signs, rather than a test in itself.

In the trial they did the researchers noticed that about half of the babies and children that avoid eye contact got diagnosed with autism later in life. That is a pretty significant number for such a small sample and first test. I think they are on to something. The study also showed that it probably is not a good idea to base it off genetics. Only one of the siblings developed autism where half of the subjects developed it that were not making eye contact.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/11/06/autism-sign-may-appear-in-first-months-of-life

Theater For People With Social Disabilities

I think this theater for people with social disabilities like autism is a great new opportunity for both people with disabilities, their families, and researchers. This is a completely new idea and I am glad people wanted to try this. If it helps with their social interactions, then I am all for that. This could be a fun new opportunity for them to learn how to interact that does not seem like learning. Unfortunately this was for research, not just to help them as a fun idea, but at least there is some proof that the theater is helping.

I like that the theater is helping people with disabilities, their families, and their communities. This theater not only helps the people with the disability learn to communicate better, but also helps their families be able to communicate with them better. This also helps the community because they can communicate better so they will be able to interact in the community more and be a better member of the community. It will also help them with making friends in the community. This mainly benefits them though because it is geared towards helping them with their social skills which is one of the most important to have in this world.

It is also a fun way for them to learn the social skills. Most of the students that would be in the theater are school age, so they are learning this in school as well. This is a more fun opportunity for them to gain more skills. This is also a part of their school so it will help them in school as well.  This does not seem like it would be learning to them or anyone so it sort of tricks them into learning new skills because it is fun at the same time.

I do not like that this is a research project and it is not just a fun thing to help the students. It has its pros and cons. I wish that it was someone doing something nice for them not just to learn new information. It would be much better that way, I feel any way.

On a positive note there is research to back up that the theater is helping them improve so maybe more will be able to pop up and help more people. This could be a great thing to have in a community. It also means that there is more money for it so there are better teachers and people working with them. It is probably a better program with it being a research project, but it just sounds a tad wrong.

Deaf News

This is a really cool website for deaf people to watch about current events so they do not have to worry about closed captioning or reading English called Deaf Newspaper. It also has a place where people can see all the deaf events. If you know ASL you can help the website by signing for it. There are Pictures on the little drop down menu of the deaf events that he has gone to and reported about. There is also a cooking show on here.

What a lot of people do not know is that American Sign Language is not English in any way shape or form. It has its own grammar rules and writing style, called glossing. English is another language deaf people have to learn to “fit in,” because everything is written in English around them. Reading news in English is probably not the best or most sought after way to read the news. If I were deaf I would love to have a station with someone actually signing. This is sort of one, although it is online and not completely about the news.

I like how it has the deaf events listed on the sides so people can see what events are current and what they can go to all over the country to connect with other deaf people around the country. Deaf culture is a very unique culture and it is not spread very easily because they are a minority and are spread out over a lot of places around the world. It is developing differently in different parts of the country so that is why it is important for them to visit with and see people from all over. They can share signs and different aspects of their culture at these deaf events.  There are a lot of different deaf events within deaf communities as well and they are not all listed on this website. There are only events the person who runs the website is going to

There is also a cooking show on the website. There is a small little clip that introduces the cook and there are choices of different recopies to look at. I like it I think it is a cute little show it is not very important to see the signs for how to cook because they still have to be written down to follow them anyway. I like how they show this still.