Personal Narrative: My Personal Experience Of A Child With Autism
My personal experience as a mother to a child with autism
My son was born when I was 40 years old, after being married for 7 years. Becoming a mother was my greatest fear, and it took me a long time to overcome this fear. Most of my inhibition were related to the fear that something will be wrong with my child that will cause him a great suffer. The most terrifying idea for me was to have a child with special needs, such as Autism.
When my son was born it was the happiest day of my life. He was beautiful, smiling, and a very happy baby. It was only until my son was two years old when I started to notice some of his behaviors that looked untypical. Behaviors such as banging his head on the wall when he feels frustrated, watching television from the side angle of his eyes and delay in his speech. I immediately contact the local regional …show more content…
The regional center is a nonprofit agency that contract with the Department of Developmental Services. It provides services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Most of the services are for children with developmentally delayed prior to the age of three. After that age, regional center keep only the clients who have lifelong impermanent of special needs, such as Autism, physical disability, or mentally delays.
The occupational therapist that was sent by regional center diagnosed him with moderate sensory processing disorder (SPD). Sensory processing refers to the way the nervous system collect messages from the senses and transfer it into proper motor responses. SPD, or sensory integration dysfunction refers to a disorder when the sensory brain do not place the sensory signals as proper response. Individual
My son was born when I was 40 years old, after being married for 7 years. Becoming a mother was my greatest fear, and it took me a long time to overcome this fear. Most of my inhibition were related to the fear that something will be wrong with my child that will cause him a great suffer. The most terrifying idea for me was to have a child with special needs, such as Autism.
When my son was born it was the happiest day of my life. He was beautiful, smiling, and a very happy baby. It was only until my son was two years old when I started to notice some of his behaviors that looked untypical. Behaviors such as banging his head on the wall when he feels frustrated, watching television from the side angle of his eyes and delay in his speech. I immediately contact the local regional …show more content…
The regional center is a nonprofit agency that contract with the Department of Developmental Services. It provides services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Most of the services are for children with developmentally delayed prior to the age of three. After that age, regional center keep only the clients who have lifelong impermanent of special needs, such as Autism, physical disability, or mentally delays.
The occupational therapist that was sent by regional center diagnosed him with moderate sensory processing disorder (SPD). Sensory processing refers to the way the nervous system collect messages from the senses and transfer it into proper motor responses. SPD, or sensory integration dysfunction refers to a disorder when the sensory brain do not place the sensory signals as proper response. Individual