Causes Of ASD

Specific data in regards to the individual’s social development and behaviour is collected. Inquiries about core ASD symptoms including, unusual, or repetitive behaviours and social relatedness are done, the family’s input is important.

In many cases, parents aren’t noticing the early symptoms of ASD in their infants, and so they conclude that the vaccine is the cause. I believe that choosing to have your child vaccinations should not be a choice; it should be required. By vaccinating a child, we are protecting them from numerous diseases that have proven to be fatal. Even if you are still not completely convinced there is no correlation between the two, understand that the positives of these vaccines still outweigh the slim possibility of a child becoming autistic from a

The pathology underlying the condition is related to the physiological process of the brain with environmental, psychological neurological and other health conditions (NHS choice, 2013). Hypothesis stated that environmental agent’s exposure to the mother while pregnant may contribute to the child’s development of ASD (NIH, 2015).

ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder and parents believed that young infants and toddlers were vulnerable to thimerosal and would ultimately suffer from ASD. In the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism,” research was done on children under the age of two to locate any connection between vaccines and autism in 2013. They state in their study they looked at the number of antigens from vaccines in the ages of children ranging between birth and two years of age. The results showed that the total amount of antigen from vaccines received in children with or without ASD were the same (CDC). This case study proved that all

Vaccinations have strongly integrated into modern medicine, where several generations have grown up without being exposed to epidemics of many dangerous even deadly diseases. However, during the recent decade an anti-vaccine movement has emerged, powered by individuals claiming the negative effects vaccines are causing children. The two sides of the controversial debate between physicians and parents beliefs regarding the vaccination of children, and the potential effect of the reduction in the number of vaccinated people. It is considered an asymmetrical conversation, where on one side there are doctors, epidemiologists, pharmacologists and social scientists, and on the other side there are parents, writers, and activists who believe to speak with authority of individual experience against vaccinations. While many individuals believe that getting their children vaccinated is a must to prevent harmful diseases such as measles and whooping cough, others believe that vaccines are one of the leading causes to many uprising disorders such as autism and other neurological problems. This essay explains the different reasons parents are rejecting certain vaccinations for their children. By the time a child is 6 years old, the Center of Disease Control and Prevention provides a recommended set of vaccinations for every child. These vaccinations minimize the risk of spreading for virus

The measles is one disease that has seen a recent outbreak across the globe. Michael Snyder makes a correlation between the rise of vaccines administered to children and the percentage of ASD in children. The current ASD rates are in “numbers well below 1 in 100 in states like Minnesota... Published studies in the 1970s showed an autism rate of 1 in 10,000, so autism has grown 100-fold, or 10,000%” (Handley). Also according to J. B. Handley, the amount of total shots kids received before the age of five have gone up from 10 to 36 since 1989 and there have been tens of thousands of cases in which parents report their children being diagnosed with ASD after getting these childhood vaccines. “Vaccines are known to cause brain damage, and parents report regression and later autism after getting them” (Handley). The ingredients in these vaccines are also what parents believe are the causes of impaired brain development in their children. One particular ingredient that is getting attention is thimerosal which contains the element mercury, the most toxic and dangerous

Parents today are risking their children’s and other children’s safety and life by refusing vaccinations. They decide to take this risk because they are trying to avoid their children’s chance of getting autism. Studies have shown following the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine children become diagnosed with autism. Parents are risking bringing back diseases that before vaccinations killed and threatened the lives of many people. The MMR vaccine does not cause autism, because the doctor who published the first study about this theory has since lost his medical license, many more studies have proven the correlation is a myth, and Autism Speaks, an autism advocacy organization, has come out and said vaccinations do not cause autism.

The ASD is an early intervention field due to having a relevant obstacle in the research agenda at a "pre-paradigmatic" stage (Kuhn, 1962)-which is a stage where practices are informed by competing meta-theoretical orientations (e.g., behavioral theory, cognitive theory, and developmental theory) operate in consonance with disparate vocabularies and criteria used for appraising evidence (Ingersoll, 2010; Smith, 2014). Different treatments of individualization and combination have to generate testable prognosis, current frameworks of "pre-paradigmatic" should be developed into full-fledged scientific theories which utilize parameters and constraints to formulate treatment targets and therapeutic change of hypothesized nature. In this research, the hypothesis of treatment used will oblige the reformulation of rationales treatment in four sets of explicit terms of explanatory/predictive

Alot plays into effect what happens before and during birth, this can come from mothers age, and maternal illness during the pregnancy. The reason why scientists think that genes play a role in the development of ASD is with twins. In some cases it is more likely for identical twins who are fraternal to have a risk at getting ASD, then identical (“What Causes Autism?”). From “What Causes Autism?” say that if a family with one autistic child, they have a 5% chance - or one in 20 - chance of having another child with autism. While pregnant with the child it can have an effect with what medication you take in. There is even some

Although organizations are working hard to decrease a lack of childhood vaccines, there are still major barriers to their solutions. Along with a lack of funding and resources, parental beliefs are a dramatic barrier to solving the problem of vaccination disparity. Many parents distrust the vaccine information they are given or fear that their child will develop the illness through receiving immunizations (Niederhauser & Markowitz, 2007). In western society, some parents believe that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccinations cause autism due to a very unscientific study that gained ground with some outspoken celebrities and was thus unable to be stamped out by actual scientists and doctors (Downs, 2008). Another barrier is religious beliefs of some individuals. Some people believe that the healing of illness and prevention is solely up to God and they reject receiving vaccines (Haider & Bassa, 2014).

2. Knowing beforehand the conditions of ASD will increase one’s knowledge in providing care for children and decrease the chances of the side effects harming a person's daily life. Also, depending on how severe the effects are, certain actions will be taken.

Vaccines very rarely have any adverse effects and have been proven to have no link to the development of ASD in children. Nevertheless, parents continue to fear them. While this research article by Andrew Wakefield—along with twelve others from the Royal Free Medical School in London—seems legitimate, the data was found to be distorted (Deer). Moreover, the article was then retracted in 2010 and Wakefield’s medical license was revoked (Deer). In Wakefield’s research of the children, it was found that “only one clearly had regressive autism” (Deer). In fact, many of the children that Wakefield had studied in the article “had developmental delays, and also facial dysmorphisms noted before MMR vaccination” (Deer). Even after the article was retracted and it was proven that his research was unfounded, there continued to be skepticism about vaccines but they are urged to inoculate their children.

This has been an ongoing research for many decades. I am concerned about to separate individual moral issues concerning the components of vaccines and how they have a mindset on what are the underlying issues of ASD. Second, the area in which the research was proposed, what I am not sure exactly what we as researchers are looking to discover. Are there going to be a breakdown of vaccine? Will the participants in the research already received a diagnosis and were giving a vaccine of some sort? How would the participant be protective from exposing too much information about family history and other issues they maybe have been

That main cause for people not getting immunized was Andrew Wakefield's false and lying statements that said autism was caused by immunizations. Through false statements and no fact, Wakefield said what he said to get known, as a response, Wakefield got his doctorate revoked. As an effect, many naive parents wanting the best for their children, were scared by Wakefield's theory and decided their children would not be given immunizations. Throught the myths that immunization cause autism, many parents have not allowed their children to get immunized.

The second research question to determine if it was successful is, “Did parents increase their awareness and knowledge of ASD in parents by 80% by the end of the year compared to the comparison group?” The more a parent is informed about what is ASD and how it affects a child, the better they will be able to comprehend why a child does what they do and how to help them. If the scores from the total questionnaire equal 80% increase than it will be determined successful.