Newsletter
#120 for Internationally Adopting Parents
November 12, 2009 PAL Center Inc.
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ANNOUNCEMENT BGCenter Opens
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Gindis BGCenter-West
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Conferences
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 The
29th Annual APC
Adoption Conference Dr. Gindis presents: 12:15-1:15
1:45-2:45
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Autistic Child
Institutional autism is understood as a learned behavior produced by an institutional environment such as an orphanage. Some autistic-like behaviors may be adaptive in an institution, but become mal-adaptive after the child's adoption into a family. A differential diagnosis between autism as a medical condition and learned autistic-like post-institutional behaviors is to be made.
A conclusion is drawn that institutional autism is merely a description of certain patterns of post-institutionalized behavior that may appear similar to what is observed in children with autism. Abrupt native language attrition, typical for the majority of international adoptees, could contribute to autistic-like behavior.
Given the fact that the core features of autism are delayed or impaired language skills and communication, professionals widely advise families to only speak and teach one language to their autistic child, namely the official language of the country they live in. Bilingual families are therefore faced with the traumatic decision of deciding which language they should raise their autistic child in.
Internationally adopted children with autistic features are in a especially difficult situation: they may become nonverbal, forgetting the native language and not being able to learn the new one at an age appropriate level.
Dr. B. Gindis
Institutional Autism In Children Adopted Internationally:
Myth Or Reality?
Nonverbal Communication: What’s it all about?
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