When is supernanny tackling autism?? What day?

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Dont want to miss this episode. Any one know when Jo goes to the family with an autistic child? I looked at her channel 4 website but couldnt find it.

thanks

I hadn't heard this. I think the latest series has just finished and I don't remember seeing any children with autism. There's a Little Angels programme dealing with AS which is due to be repeated in a few days though IIRC.

dunno about that but my girls got a letter from thier SN school about a television company that were looking for a family with a child with autism to do a supernanny type programme, dont think anyone was interested thou.

The states already has the program and its being aired on ABC in November!!! How come we dont have it!!!!

hmm

if u have sky tv then u have abc

i dont know. when i went to George's last MPT assesment i was talking to the clinical psychologist about supernanny and she was REALLY against her.
saying how she is very negative and that some of her strategies are actually detrimental as she tries to confuse two diferent theories and they both end up canelling each other out.

i said " but they work in the end though" and she just said yes because most of teh time she goes to families where there is absolutly no discipline at all so anything is better than nothing.

but i guess these programmes are worth watching and then adjusting to your own child and parenting styles.

Hi, well apparently, from reading the ABC web site, she influences an autistic child who is basically non verbal, to saying over one hundred words.

IIRC there's an American version of the series where she visits U.S. families. Maybe that's what this particular programme is?

Hmmm...not sure about the claim that she got a non-verbal child to say 100+ words tbh. It would be interesting to watch though.

we have the supernanny american series here... new series has just started - will keep an eye out for you and let you know if this one appears....

bollocks she gets a non-verbal child to say 100 words. My arse. (sorry but it aint that easy- if she did she was standing in the right place at the right time),

here we go . She works with autism experts- using their strategies and looks like she introduces lots of visual strategies and the child uses 20 words. I wouldn't think that was unusual (especially if the child is only 3- and never had much intervention before). Ds1 says thins when prompted visually - if others could uderstand them then they would be words (iyswim- he uses set sounds- they're just not recognisable as speech to anyone else- but whereas without pics he often says nothing, when cued visually he often says the set phrase bunch of sounds).