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Volume 5, Issue 5(Suppl)
J Child Adolesc Behav, an open access journal
ISSN: 2375-4494
Child Psychology 2017
September 28-29, 2017
September 28-29, 2017 Berlin, Germany
23
rd
International Conference on
Adolescent Medicine &
Child Psychology
Autism is curable; the re-start infant family program for infants and toddlers with autistic behaviour
Stella Acquarone
Parent Infant Centre, UK
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utism affects 1% of the general population (Baird 2003) and 25% of the children born premature (Limperopoulus, 2008). Often
it is a different evolution in development from our normal development because of mysterious sensitivities, sometimes physical
deficits and interpersonal adaptation, accommodation, reciprocity and parental attachments. Early intensive intervention is possible
from a very young age. First we identify the signs of alarm with a ‘Mother’ scale and an ‘Infant’ scale and from this we can set up
the goals for a treatment. Treatment should include work with the parents alongside working with the baby. They need to find out
the cause of the child’s impairment to relate, whether is physical or psychological. We have developed two main methods to change
development outcomes: the first is consultations of one hour to help gain insight to the parents of what is going on in the baby’s
mind and difficulties in emotional dysregulation; and the second is The Re:Start programme, an intensive intervention with babies
and toddlers that are already showing autistic-like behaviour. To wait until school age for an official diagnosis misses the window of
opportunity when the brain is wiring up and/or pruning neurons which could jeopardise emotional and cognitive potential. An early
intervention can better the outcome for the child, the family and society as a whole. This treatment – which is 6 hours per day for 3
to 4 weeks by a multidisciplinary team–includes general awareness of physical difficulties and exploration of the specific emotions
interfering in the social and communication interactions between the mother/father and baby/toddler. We consider 5 areas with
sub-areas that we measure before and after the intervention. All the children who completed The Re:Start programme changed their
diagnosis and grew up knowing their difficulties and able to go into main stream education. I will present the graphics with the results
of the scale evaluation before and after treatment.
Conclusion
: Early signs of autism and diagnosed autism is treatable and could become a thing of the past. The concept and the
practice of The Re:Start programme is a great contribution towards the understanding of this condition and the treatment towards
making autism curable.
acquarone@aol.comJ Child Adolesc Behav 2017, 5:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2375-4494-C1-003