Siblings of A Child With Autism Often Have Subtler Problems
Children with autism tend to have brothers and sisters with language delays and other, less obvious characteristics of the disorder.
Siblings of children diagnosed with autism may benefit for a checkup for related symptoms.
That’s the conclusion of a study of more than 1,200 families in the Interactive Autism Network, a national online research registry.
The finding suggests that the genes behind autism in one child may contribute to less serious problems in that child’s siblings, says Dr. John N. Constantino, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, lead author of the study, which appears in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Read more here: Siblings of A Child With Autism Often Have Subtler Problems : Shots – Health News Blog : NPR.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.