TACA and Howcast Team Up to Help Families Dealing with Autism

Managing Editor's Note: This is appearing in the TACA newsletter. Thank you to TACA for providing actionable info for families with a newly diagnosed child.

Do you know of a family with a newly diagnosed child with autism? Not sure how to help? If so, this may be just what you are looking for. Howcast teamed up with TACA to deliver this informative video, "How To Help A Child with Autism." This three-and-a-half minute video provides parents with strategies and resources to get their child on the path to improvement. 

How To Help a Child With Autism on Howcast

 
TACA was thrilled to partner with Howcast on this effort and believes this video falls in line with TACA's mission to speed up the cycle from autism diagnosis to effective treatments. Howcast is an amazing website that provides free how-to videos to its viewers. Learn more about Howcast HERE.

  The treatment category is sponsored by Lee Silsby, the leader in quality compounded medications for autism.

Comments

[Martha]

well we know that CJ has autism now . he is 4 years old . and getting some help with speech theapy. But only for 2 days and maybe for 30 minutes to a hour. That i dont understand.... I have helped him with numbers 1- to 10 and abc he knows them. we work on this everyday when he is here with me. I am waiting for his mother to take him to get diagnosis to make sure we are helping him . But its hard when I am the grandmother and mother doesnt move faster. my son and her are not togetheir. lost his job and no car it is hard . No home but mine at these time. So when he is here we work hard with him. his is doing better but still does not like to be other kids. the book would be fine. thank you

[Annmarie Rung]

I love the video. Thank you for posting. I am putting it on my facebook to share with others. We found out about our sons ASD when he was 16 months old and started early intervention right away. We think it has made a huge difference, along with his diet(all gfcf, no processed foods)
Also, be on the lookout for products that are GFCF(playdough, stickers, paints, soaps).
I make GFCF soaps for our ASD children .
www.goodnightmoonsoaps.com

[chantal Sicile-Kira]

Very cool!

[Sunshine]

Thanks for posting... I have sent it to my Facebook account. I'm glad they included RDI and diet.

[John Hemenway]

To assist parents with a child that has been newly diagnosed with autism, my wife put together a little book that incorporates the lessons learned of a group of ASD mothers she started meeting with once a month. I highly recommend it. Every autism mom who has read it, after the fact, has said, "Wow, I wish I had known these things 2 years ago."

Further, to allow a family to go GFCF without breaking the family's budget, my wife, who is also a very good cook, developed a series of recipes that allow a whole family to go GFCF without breaking the family budget, or making anyone feeling cheated or left out. The cookbook teaches you how to put together several new flour mixes which are combinations of various gluten-free flours that you will not find in any other cook book, because she developed them herself, with much kitchen testing. The respective casein-free recipes were developed to work with the respective flour mixes.

The cookbook also tells you the best and most economical online sources for the ingredients used, how to stock your kitchen in advance so that you can make any recipe in the book.

If you want to really help someone who just got "the diagnosis." Get them these two books. See http://www.autismmomcooksgfcf.com

- John Hemenway