Over the years it has become better understood how different wiring can contribute to conditions like Autism.
As far back as 1998, if not farther, people were talking about brains with faulty wiring.
Through the research and understanding developed over the years faulty wiring has become understood as different wiring.
What is frustrating to parents is the fact that our children look the same as other children.
It is not until our children react to a situation that we realize something is dramatically different.
There are also the children with Autism who are only affected a little and do not have that dramatic response.
In some ways they are more difficult to deal with.
Children with Autism may respond to the typical everyday sights and sounds with pain and discomfort.
They may also have trouble controlling large and small muscles.
They may have trouble doing different activities that children of a particular age can do easily.
Skills from zipping, buttoning, writing, coloring, or any other activity may be a problem.
Fortunately whole system around these problems has been developed.
This system is composed of activities parents can easily do on a regular basis.
The activities can be taught to friends, grandparents, and other relatives as well.
This system is called Sensory Integration.
Well meaning professionals tell parents to employ firmer discipline with their child.
They tell parents to maintain a stricter schedule or keep a better handle on their diet or television watching.
All of these ideas and more are beneficial to many children.
The parent of a child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) knows there must be more.
Although all of these things and then some more may easily help a typical child, they do not gain a significant handle on children with ASD.
The overlooked component is the physical.
Sensory Integration seeks to build a structured framework to start addressing the physical/brain components of raising a child with Autism.