Dr. Karen Parker: “Autistic children who had the lowest levels of the\u00a0 hormone vasopressin (similar to oxytocin) in their blood also had the greatest social impairment.”<\/p>\n
This research was\u00a0 published July 22, 2015 in PLOS ONE.<\/p>\n
This finding gives hope that treating low levels of vasopressin in kids with autism, may improve social impairment and poor communication skills.<\/p>\n
Our goal<\/a> in helping individuals with autism target three main concerns:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1- Improve social skills<\/p>\n 2- Improve communication capabilities<\/p>\n 3- Attaining independence<\/p>\n Source: Read the full research here.<\/a><\/p>\n Related topic: Guidelines to diagnose autism<\/a>.<\/p>\n nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Karen Parker: “Autistic children who had the lowest levels of the\u00a0 hormone vasopressin (similar to oxytocin) in their blood also had the greatest social impairment.” This research was\u00a0 published July 22, 2015 in PLOS ONE. This finding gives hope that treating low levels of vasopressin in kids with autism, may improve social impairment and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,4],"tags":[381,10,346,77,50,347,383,92,348,52,382],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autism","category-general-advice","category-parenting","category-tips","tag-autism","tag-communication","tag-guidelines-to-diagnose-autism","tag-health","tag-independence","tag-major-goals-to-help-kids-with-autism","tag-parenting","tag-research","tag-stanford-university-school-of-medicine","tag-symptoms-of-autism","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}