The Newborn and the Child with Autism: The Advice is the Same

• By: Kathleen G. Freeman, PhD, RNC-NIC Drexel Online Integrated Nursing Care of ASD Certificate Program
• July 1st, 2016
• birth, father, grief, respite
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As a parent with a 25-year-old son with autism, I am often asked what advice I would give to parents with a newly diagnosed child. My response is the same advice I give to new mothers as a nurse on the maternity unit. Parental emotional adjustment to a new baby is analogous to the adjustment to...