4 year old desi kid not talking yet.

[infoseeker786]

Hi friends,

My cousin 4 year old boy not talking yet .Just speaks in words.Also recently he was  diagnosed with moderate level autism.Any suggestion in improving speech other than sending him to India?Please help

[Somedude]

parents age?

[whatsapp]

send India specially mysore 

[LordOfMud]

Sending to a third world county like India is a dumb idea

if,  US citizen (kid),  ASAP approach respective county board of social services for all free specialist therapies and special schooling needs & also free baby sitting for the kid & some financial and medical benefits to parents too .......

[DesamKosam]

16 minutes ago, infoseeker786 said:

Hi friends,

My cousin 4 year old boy not talking yet .Just speaks in words.Also recently he was  diagnosed with moderate level autism.Any suggestion in improving speech other than sending him to India?Please help

India lo konni rojulu perigithe set avutundi

[Beardman]

19 minutes ago, infoseeker786 said:

Hi friends,

My cousin 4 year old boy not talking yet .Just speaks in words.Also recently he was  diagnosed with moderate level autism.Any suggestion in improving speech other than sending him to India?Please help

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/07/oxytocin-improves-social-abilities-in-some-kids-with-autism.html

Oxytocin treatment produces more improvement in social behavior among children with autism who have low levels of the hormone to begin with, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The study, which was published online July 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to consider how baseline oxytocin levels influence autistic children’s responses to the substance.

“Our results suggest that some children with autism will benefit from oxytocin treatment more than others, and that blood oxytocin levels might be a biological sign that will allow us to predict if a child will respond maximally or not,” said lead author Karen Parker, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. The trial, in 32 children, was relatively small and needs to be replicated, she said.

“We are finally narrowing down whom oxytocin could be beneficial for,” said Antonio Hardan, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and senior author of the study. “This is what precision health looks like for autism.”

Although the effect of oxytocin was modest, the results are exciting because no other medications now exist to treat any of the core features of autism, Hardan added.

Oxytocin levels vary

 

 

 

 

Antonio Hardan

 

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by poor social ability and verbal communication skills, as well as restrictive and repetitive behaviors. Not all children with the disorder are equally affected; symptoms range in severity. In 2014, Parker and Hardan and their colleagues discovered that oxytocin levels vary greatly in children both with and without autism, and that those with low oxytocin have more social impairment regardless of whether they have autism.

That discovery made the researchers wonder if oxytocin’s benefits as an autism therapy might be confined to kids whose levels were low to begin with. Other trials of oxytocin in autism have produced mixed results but did not take subjects’ baseline levels into account.

The new study included 32 children with autism who were randomly assigned to receive an intranasal oxytocin spray or a placebo spray twice daily for four weeks. The children’s blood oxytocin levels were measured before and after the four-week period. The children’s behavior was assessed at the beginning and end of the trial using a standardized questionnaire completed by their parents. The hormone was found to be safe, with no adverse events reported.

Intriguing placebo effect

As in many trials, the researchers saw some improvement even in children given the placebo, though the effect was less pronounced than it was in the oxytocin group. Children who had low oxytocin at baseline received more benefit from placebo than those who began with high oxytocin — and their bodies’ own production of the hormone rose modestly. This unexpected finding suggests a possible biological explanation for the placebo effect, which is common in studies of psychological and psychiatric treatments, Parker said. The idea that increases in natural oxytocin production might explain how patients benefit from a placebo merits future research, she added.

[user789]

So sad.. did they knew any symptoms when kid was 1-2 years?

[aakathaai369]

Saraswathi lehyam vaadu

[kittaya]

55 minutes ago, infoseeker786 said:

Hi friends,

My cousin 4 year old boy not talking yet .Just speaks in words.Also recently he was  diagnosed with moderate level autism.Any suggestion in improving speech other than sending him to India?Please help

send them tto school... parents lo ada mogo anni musukoni valla bagogulu chuskunte manchidhi

[infoseeker786]

1 hour ago, user789 said:

So sad.. did they knew any symptoms when kid was 1-2 years?

very difficult to identify the symptoms in age 1 or2 bro

[Variety_Pullayya]

2 minutes ago, infoseeker786 said:

very difficult to identify the symptoms in age 1 or2 bro

i agree. even severe cases of autism cant be identified till around 1.5 to 2 years. brain somehow makes up for it till that age.

also autism is more prevalent in boys. not sure why

[pandemkodi]

Send him India .. could. Be  best thing 

[user789]

19 minutes ago, Variety_Pullayya said:

i agree. even severe cases of autism cant be identified till around 1.5 to 2 years. brain somehow makes up for it till that age.

also autism is more prevalent in boys. not sure why

Is it.. scary.. why is it happening more often to Indians in USA.. 

[Googleyahoo]

Please look into ABA therapy for the kid . Along with Speech and OT . Ma daughter ki start chesamu . We have enrolled her in a school exclusively for ABA therapy . We have already noticed lot of change in the last 2 months . She is 2.5 years 

[Googleyahoo]

If possible, kid ni ikkade vunchandi. Lots of resources here . You have to keep the kid busy all the time . Avoid screen time . Try gluten free diet although I am not really sure how much evidence we have regarding gluten free diet