Health & Daily Living
Daily Living Strategies
The following links provide information on a range of strategies in dealing with the challenges associated with daily living tasks.
Toileting
The
Autism Home Page
Click on ‘Special Situations’ on index list (front
page).
Fact sheet#4: Toilet Training: all you ever wanted to know and some things
you'd prefer not to know!
Eating
(Go to Diet in the "Interventions" section. You will need to scroll down to the alphabetical listing.)
Sleeping
Melatonin
Division TEACCH
(Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped
Children)
View of Dr Joanna
S. Dalldorf, M.D., Developmental Pediatrician, Pediatric Consultant, Chapel
Hill TEACCH Center
Sexuality
Families
For Early Autism Treatment (FEAT)
On
delaying menstruation for young girls with autism. Scroll down
and click on link ‘Search: Search the FEAT website or FEAT News Archives’.
Then click ‘Search FEAT News Archives; type in menstruation in "(search)
For" box.
Center for the Study of Autism
An article by Geri Newton- ‘Social/Sexual Awareness for Persons with
Disabilities’.
Center
for the Study of Autism
An article by Geri Newton: ‘Social/Sexual Awareness
for Persons with Disabilities’.
The
National Autistic Society
Click subheading ‘Publications and resources’ on front page,
then on next page under ‘free’ heading click ‘Document
Archive". Scroll to ‘The socio-sexual development of people
with autism and related learning disabilities’. This article is written
by John Mortlock.
The
Autism Home Page
Click ‘Special Situations’ subheading on index list (front page).
Scroll down to ‘Fact sheet #4e- Autism and Sexual Issues’.