autism and asd-fault of the parents!

[Dylan2010]

Joe has it again, a parent called in saying that he ( the good doctor) addressed a meeting saying that there is no such thing as Autism and that its the parents fault.

[shoneen]

.... hmmmm, all starting to sound a bit "culty"

[ppcoyle]

Humphreys is attempting to deny the implications of his original article. In today’s Examiner he is quoted as now saying:

I wanted to inform the public of up-to-date research that is there. It was never my intention to hurt anybody……………………………… rather than just focusing on a hypothetical, neurobiological defect

Parents

So what did he say in the original article?

but the unconscious hope of children is that other adults (teachers, relatives, educational psychologists, care workers) that when they are emotionally and socially troubled, it is their adult carers who often need more help than they do.

Indeed, my experience in my own psychological practice is that when parents and teachers resolve their own fears and insecurities, children begin to express what they dare not express before their guardians resolved their own emotional turmoil.

I have posted, in earlier posts, links to the up to date research on ASD, which completely refutes Humphreys’ position in the original article.

He also states in today’s article in the Examiner

……………… rather than just focusing on a hypothetical, neurobiological defect

There is a growing body of research that is unravelling the genetic and biological underpinnings of ASD e.g.

A complex neurobehavioral disorder such as autism cannot be explained by abnormalities in one brain area, nor is language acquisition dependent on the development of just one area. Development progresses through a complex interaction of many brain and behavioral changes and experiences. The current review aimed to focus on the role of an adult ‘language comprehension region’ from a developmental ontogenetic perspective based on evidence of its role in both non-verbal behaviors important to language acquisition and speech perception itself. Evidence that this area may be abnormal in a disorder characterized by language and social communication adds additional support to this hypothesis and suggests STS dysfunction may be a critical contributing factor in the emergence of the autistic phenotype

The superior temporal sulcus (STS) performs a common function for social and speech perception: Implications for the emergence of autism. Elizabeth Redcay Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 32 (2008) 123–142

This is just one example of the research.

[birthday]

Joe has it again, a parent called in saying that he ( the good doctor) addressed a meeting saying that there is no such thing as Autism and that its the parents fault.

Apparently the fruitcake has also blamed parents for asthma in a previous article!

http://www.irishexaminer.com/feelgoo...2010-05-21.pdf


Has UCC cancelled this charlatans contract yet?

[birthday]

Apparently the fruitcake has also blamed parents for asthma in a previous article!

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Has UCC cancelled this charlatans contract yet?

A little taster from the above link on asthma-
Until there is a possibility of receiving what is missing
— the security of unconditional love — they will wisely
hold onto their addictions. So it is for those who are asthmatic
— the substitute of breath holding, the soothing
effects of the inhaler and, most of all, the attention they
receive from significant adults, will be held onto until what
they are really craving for — unconditional love — is present.Is it any wonder that the 'Examiner' has failed to establish itself as a national newspaper?

[uriah]

is he not allowed an opinion? people on an opinion website giving out that someone else has an opinion. perhaps he is right perhaps he is wrong but he is definately allowed his opinion. anyways on these illnesses surely there is a way to test unborn children for these things and if necessary abort

The psychologist on whose research Tom bases his 'opinion' disagrees with Tom's interpretation of the research, and disagrees with Tom.

[autiemom]

I know im going to get savaged for saying this but here goes.

It is likely that there is a strong correlation between the amount of state subsidies in the form of disability benefits(domincilliary care allowance to parents etc) and the increased incidence of diagnosis, which shouldnt be confused with genuine cases of autism. The autistic spectrum would seem to make diagnosis very arbitrary.

please refrain from uninformed comments, there is no chance a child will be diagnosed as asd unless they are. End of.
Your insinuation is ignorant and negatively provocative.

[imokyrok]

Apparently the fruitcake has also blamed parents for asthma in a previous article!

http://www.irishexaminer.com/feelgoo...2010-05-21.pdf


Has UCC cancelled this charlatans contract yet?

Humphreys comes from a time when psychologists were very anti the medical model of psychiatric illness. Back in the late 80's and nineties everything was nurture rather than nature. Science has moved since then and we now recognise the huge role the brain has to play in many illnesses which were previously thought to be all Mums fault. Most psychologists should have moved on with the science but a few do still cling to outdated concepts.

[rgaok]

please refrain from uninformed comments, there is no chance a child will be diagnosed as asd unless they are. End of.
Your insinuation is ignorant and negatively provocative.

IMHO SOME parents want a diagnosis for their child, whether that is Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Aspergers, ADHD, Autism etc......Mothers mainly, it gives them a certain purpose or cachet. They get involved in fund-raising, chairperson of the dyslexia Association, they become "Experts" on the syndrome, they go on the Joe Duffy show....

Often a psychologist will write on an Assessment report "may have dyslexic tendencies" That could probably be said about anyone. And some mothers latch onto that.

I did say SOME mothers only.....

[uriah]

IMHO SOME parents want a diagnosis for their child, whether that is Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Aspergers, ADHD, Autism etc......Mothers mainly, it gives them a certain purpose or cachet. They get involved in fund-raising, chairperson of the dyslexia Association, they become "Experts" on the syndrome, they go on the Joe Duffy show....

Often a psychologist will write on an Assessment report "may have dyslexic tendencies" That could probably be said about anyone. And some mothers latch onto that.

I did say SOME mothers only.....

i have read many psychologists' reports.
I have never seen the words ""may have dyslexic tendencies" written on any such report.

Your ignorance is obvious.