Child Acting Out with Mom and Has Very Poor Eating Habits

Dear C., I am here to help you! As a Special-needs parent Advocate with Parent Support and Advocacy Program, we help parents of special needs children and adults in Wayne County, Mi for free. We also screen children ages newborn to third birthday for special education free services through the public schools. You never said how old your grandson is. I am going to refer you to my colleague, Lori huntington, who is the parent of an Autistic duaghter, who will be able to help you out. You can call her at 1-###-###-####. (MY focus is more on Emotionally-Impaired kids, although we help kids of all developmental disabilities). The websites that were mentioned in previous responses are all helpful. God Bless-K.

Hi C.

I feel for you. All though I don't personally have experince with Autism I went online and found you more some information.

http://www.autism-mi.org/
The mission of the Autism Society of Michigan (ASM) is to assure full participation and self determination in every aspect of life for each individual. We will realize this vision by opening avenues of self advocacy and advocating on behalf of others in a way that values equity, respect, dignity and diversity in all communities.

ASM is committed to empowering individuals with autism and their families by offering educational resources and materials, workshops, seminars and other services.

ASM advocates that "MAKING HUMAN CONNECTIONS" in a supportive, integrated community is a right of all persons.

Autism Support Center
1270 Doris Road
Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326-2678
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Web: www.autismsupportcenter.org
The Autism Support Center is a research based outcome approach that provides continual treatment monitoring to maximize progress.

Judson Center Autism Connections
Web: http://www.judsoncenter.org/page.php?catID=118&page=W...

Oakland County
Autism Connections
Teresa Summers, Office Coordinator
4410 W. 13 Mile Rd.
Royal Oak, MI 48073-6515
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Macomb County
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Teresa Summers, Office Coordinator
42627 Garfield, Suite 214
Clinton Township, MI 48038
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Judson Center Autism Connections offers a wide range of educational, therapeutic and support services designed to assist individuals with autism, their families and their communities. Therapies and skills training promote independence and maximize potential for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

The Center for Childhood Development
7086 8th Avenue
Jenison, MI 49428
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Email: ____@____.com
Web: http://www.theCenterforCD.com
The Center for Childhood Development provides a wide variety of assessment, treatment, educational and consultation services to help children and families in the West Michigan area affected by neurodevelopmental challenges. Our innovative, integrative approach utilizes the importance of the parent/guardian as part of the multi-disciplinary team in the therapeutic process. We offer the best in psychological services, occupational and speech-language therapy, as well as guest consultation in adjunctive fields. We integrate many different types of therapy as needed, including: DIR/Floortime Approach, AIT, Samonas Sound, Music Listening, Craniosacral Therapy, Interactive Metronome, and Lindamood-Bell programs. We are a private pay office; payment is expected at time of service.

Autism Coach - Site contains software, books, toys, and dietary products for children within the autism spectrum and provides a lot of information on how to create an intervention program.

FreeMedsAndSolutions - "Our Focus at Free Meds and Solutions is to provide you and your loved ones with programs that will assist you in your continuous effort to save or eliminate prescription medicine costs as well as a number of associated assistance programs. Our site is designed to assist you in accessing the 100’s of Patient Assistant Programs. We provide the most up-to-date information, qualifying criteria, applications and detailed instructions for these programs."

my 8 year old daughter is autistic and has lots of tantrums--but I have learned that the more control she thinks she has the more relaxed she is--for meal times I will give her two choices for each thing: example chicken or hamburgers: french fries or mashed pot.: corn or peas---she makes the choices she feels like she is in control----my only problem is I have 2 other kids who want a turn to!!
but how old is your grandson, If he is old enough it would probably be a great idea for him and his mother to look into preschool, once he is in the school system they can start to offer him so many wonderful classes/training: occupational training, speech therapy, social skills class---there are to many for me to list all the options that are available.
My daughter goes to mainstream school-she just has a few times during the day that she goes to a special class/training--she is learning how to control herself before the goes into a tantrum---it has helped her and our family alot!!! I know when we were just figuring all this out how stressful it was, alot of my family just felt it was a displine issue and would say "she is spoiled that is why she throws tantrums" and that really was not the case, for the most part she is a very well behaved child, just certain things would set her off and once the tantrum was started there was no stopping it. Well sorry to get so long winded in my resonse---good luck and if there is anything I can do to help feel free to contact me.

Hi,
I know its tough. One of my closest friends has a son with autism. I took care of him while she worked and went to college. He was with me 7 days a week and I always gave her such credit for her strength. Because he could be challenging although I love that boy like he was my own.
He was difficult. She found therapy for him which helped tremendously. They Did massages with his tongue and weird things. but autistic children often times have issues with texture in their mouths. which can just happen out of the blue. Sometimes its just control issues. But you are not alone and i wanted you to know that. But you need to get some extra help now. my friend waited to long and his tantrums got more irrate and he then refused to eat at all. It was scary. Physical therapy and regular therapy has helped alot. To be honest you would not know in my friends sons case that he is the same kid. Good Luck.

Hi C., What stood out to me was that he actually throws up when eating. This could be more than a tantrum, but an allergic reaction. I have recently done searches on Celiac Disease due to family allergies. Celiac is an allergy to all gluten (wheat, rye, oats, barley--I think that's it), and sometimes people must also avoid dairy.

One day, I stumbled on a site linking Autism to this specific food allergy. Many parents swear by the celiac diet for improving behavior in their autistic children. The basic idea is this: some children lack the enzymes to break down glutenous proteins...so it kind of festers inside the body and actually turns into a morphene-like chemical. Kids appear drugged, and then act out when their body goes into withdrawl.

I don't have specific sites handy...just google it like this: Autism AND Celiac She'd need to see his doctor, of course, but this is something else to explore:)