I know this video is old, but I appreciate your insight, we need more professionals like you speaking out on ways to make things easier for individuals affected when autism. With the autism rate being 1 in 54 at this point, we need more medical professionals and schools to have dedicated offices and classrooms for autistic children. I took my child to the dentist recently, she has autism and I called prior to the appointment to make sure they can accommodate an autistic child, they did nothing but say her behavior of stemming and crying was simply bad behavior, they also tried to put her under sedation just to examine her teeth, they tried holding her down and at that point I ended the visit because it was unproductive and was making my little one very upset.
Would you let your child know before time? For example I keep a calendar up on the wall for my son to keep track of what's coming up next but I'm hesitant about writing down the dentist appt. Because the last time we did that for his Dr.'s appt. He spent an entire week anxious, nervous, scared saying no dr, no dr in the morning and before bed. It was heart breaking. Of course I did my best to reassure him but didn't help much.
My hf son always has issues his recent visit I let him skip the tooth brushing by dental assistance he was hesitant but they still shined and scraped his teeth 11 yrs old first time since his first dentist visit it didint lead to a meltdown.he was put down for a frenectomy a few years ago.
