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Interesting programme about autism on BBC4 tonight

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KPB · 06/05/2004 15:51

If anyone is interested there is a programme called the autistic puzzle on BBC4 tonight at 7pm. I have seen it before and it was very interesting.

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Davros · 06/05/2004 16:16

Can't quite remember which one it is but think I've seen it. Think its the quite NAS-orientated one with an adult man with ASD and his sister and dad. Also Lorna Wing stating that the increase in numbers being dx is all down to doctors and better dxing!!! Grrrr.

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KPB · 06/05/2004 18:12

Davros - Yeah that's the one!!!

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Jimjams · 06/05/2004 18:22

Have it on video and have never been brave enough to watch it. Too many severely autistic adults for my liking.

And as for Lorna Wing- grrrrr- she's hardly at the coalface herself these days. We tried to get a referral to elliot house as it was a 5 minute walk from my house. Basically impossible unless you were coming from another country grrr grrrr grrrr The only person I know who managed to get seen there lives in Kuwait!

coppertop · 06/05/2004 18:47

I remember seeing this before. The bit that freaked me out a bit at the time was the man who spoke with his (female) teacher's voice. I think she appeared in b&w footage during the programme. At the time ds1 was going through a long phase of speaking with other people's voices. Scary stuff.

mrsforgetful · 06/05/2004 22:42

I found that i have worried ever since watching it about 'how normal' some of them looked (even the man on the bus- the one who is featured right at the start) and then seeing how much worse he became affected in later adulthood- it's this regression thing- it is bothering me alot at the moment- it's like you think they reach a 'peak' of autism and then 'all you have to do' is use various strategies and you manage- that programme made me realise that there is no guarantee that my 'verbal' boys will always be as they are now.
Charlotte Moore is on there saying that her 2nd son was fine till age 6 and on This Morning today she said he is the least verbal now....some five years later.
But...I do think the programme is good- and am glad we get these programmes- as all you SN parents of other disabilities don't seem to get many programmes at all.

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