Parenting: Autism
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
There is no single 'autism test'. But as diagnosis can lead to a child getting the right support, what do you do if you think that your child may be autistic? How do you get a diagnosis and what can you do to support your child? Jane speaks to Emma Gill whose four year old daughter has been diagnosed with autism and Dr Sarah Lister Brook, clinical lead at the National Autistic Society’s Lorna Wing.
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| 0:34.3 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and you're listening to the Woman's Out Parenting Podcast, and this |
| 0:38.3 | week it's about autism and how you get a diagnosis and what that diagnosis can do for you, your family and of course for your child. |
| 0:47.6 | I've been talking to Emma Gill, who is a family lawyer herself and has a daughter, Sophie, who is for and has an autism diagnosis. |
| 0:55.7 | And you can also hear from Dr Sarah Lister Brook who is from the National autistic |
| 1:00.5 | society. She's clinical lead there. First of all, here is Sarah on what you |
| 1:06.0 | should watch out for in a young child. Well the key thing I guess at around a year |
| 1:10.4 | is that children are engaging their parents in activities and that's often |
| 1:15.1 | through pointing and using eye contact as well as spoken language if it's coming at |
| 1:20.0 | that stage and so that lack of engagement should be an early alert coupled with patterns of |
| 1:26.2 | repetitive behavior that seem quite extreme, persistent or preoccupations |
| 1:31.5 | with things that seem very specific and not generally interested in the world. |
| 1:35.8 | Is mobility or lack of it relevant at all? |
| 1:38.0 | Not necessarily, of course children with autism can have mobility difficulties as well and that can get in the way of assessing for autism because people are |
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