http://www.blisstree.com/articles/institutional-autism-360/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:35:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/institutional-autism-360/comment-page-1/#comment-118080 theanimatorswife Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:22:19 +0000 http://www.achildchosen.com/?p=1142#comment-118080 I first started reading your blog because you were writing about this. My son, adopted at 4 from Romania, diagnosed with Institutional Autism by Dr. Federici at 8 and later organic autism (by doctors here is CA) is now 13. We have had him 9 years and the improvements are mind-boggling, but we were given the more generally understood diagnosis of autism when things did not completely go away. He is very high-functioning and capable but I don't think he will ever fully recover like Dr. Federici hoped. I now believe he must have had some genetic tendency towards autism that was hyper-influenced by the extreme neglect and deprivation of 4 years in an orphanage. But be encouraged, you are doing all the right things: a loving home and lots of time and patience do produce amazing results for these kids. I first started reading your blog because you were writing about this. My son, adopted at 4 from Romania, diagnosed with Institutional Autism by Dr. Federici at 8 and later organic autism (by doctors here is CA) is now 13. We have had him 9 years and the improvements are mind-boggling, but we were given the more generally understood diagnosis of autism when things did not completely go away. He is very high-functioning and capable but I don’t think he will ever fully recover like Dr. Federici hoped. I now believe he must have had some genetic tendency towards autism that was hyper-influenced by the extreme neglect and deprivation of 4 years in an orphanage. But be encouraged, you are doing all the right things: a loving home and lots of time and patience do produce amazing results for these kids.

]]>