Helping Dads Connect with Autistic Children
Wednesday April 26, 2006
In many families with autistic children, moms become the researchers, the in-home therapists, the managers, the record-keepers and more. It's not unusual for moms to leave their careers to devote themselves to their autistic child or children. At the same time, dads may feel disconnected from their child and even their family. In this new article, Drs. Bob Naseef and Cindy Ariel offer suggestions on how to help dads become more fully involved in the lives of their autistic children.
Comments
Interesting article. Even though I know that for the most part that’s true but not all. When reading the article some of those things pertained to my ex wife and not me. She couldn’t handle the thought of having an Autistic child so a month after finding out, she left. I could have thrown in the towel but I couldn’t. My love for Shadowe-lyn kept me there and the need to help her kept me in the fight. My advice to any father is to just love them. Take that need to fix things and use it to help your child. I keep on hearing that Autism isn’t cureable but I won’t except that and hopefully neither will you.
Yes, most father do not connect with the autistic child. My spouse is autistic and so are our 3 children. He loves them in the abstract and that has not chnaged in 35 years. He has never been able to connectg