{"id":2676,"date":"2020-04-03T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/?page_id=2676"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T11:55:04","slug":"parents-guide-to-autism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/parents-guide-to-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Information for Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This webpage is not exhaustive and it\u2019s purpose is to simply introduce the basics and some websites for further information.\u00a0 Understanding of ASD is ever growing and changing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The NHS website <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/autism\/what-is-autism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/autism\/what-is-autism\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has some useful information which should be remembered if you are considering pursuing an ASD diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFirstly, ASD is not an illness, rather it is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> something you&#8217;re born with or first appears when you&#8217;re very young.\u00a0 Therefore, if you are autistic, you are autistic your whole life.\u00a0 It is not a medical condition with treatments or a &#8220;cure&#8221;. But some people need support to help them with certain things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Autism frequently co-occurs with other conditions, including, but not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or dyslexia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">anxiety or depression<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Epilepsy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gender dysphoria<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Obsessive Compulsive Disorder<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This webpage is not exhaustive and it\u2019s purpose is to simply introduce the basics and some websites for further information.\u00a0 Understanding of ASD is ever growing and changing.\u00a0\u00a0 The NHS website https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/autism\/what-is-autism\/ has some useful information which should be remembered if you are considering pursuing an ASD diagnosis. \u201cFirstly, ASD is not an illness, rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/parents-guide-to-autism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Information for Parents<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4400,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2676\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}