Infant autism: parents' role in ameliorating risk?

Parent-infant interaction in infant siblings at risk of autism.

Recent models of the early emergence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) propose an interaction between risk susceptibility and the infant's social environment, resulting in a progressively atypical developmental trajectory. The infant's early social environmental experience consists mostly of interaction with caregivers, yet there has been little systematic study of early parent-infant interacti...

Autism and Infant Attachment:

Parent-infant interaction in infant siblings at risk of autism: A controlled observational study. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 33, 924-932. Parent-infant interaction in infant siblings at risk of autism

Involving the Parents in Caring for Hospitalized Premature Infant in the NICU: A qualitative study

Introduction: Nurses have important role in providing emotional support, decreasing stress and educating the parents to involve them in care of premature infant. The aim of this study was discovering the NICU Nurses’ perception of involving the parents in care of infants. Methods: This qualitative study was carried out based on interpretative phenomenological approach.  The study setting was th...

Understanding Autism: an Introduction for Parents

Autism is currently estimated to affect approximately one in every 166 children, yet the cause or causes of the condition are not well understood. One of the current theories concerning the condition is that among a set of children vulnerable to developing the condition because of their underlying genetics. Autism is a developmental disability that affects how the brain function specifically th...