SchaferAutismReport: Autism Disrupts Work And Pay

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schafer wrote: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Reader Supported Vol. 12 No. 99p In This Issue: • • FINANCEAutism Disrupts Work And PayAutism Therapy, Treatment Coverage Now Required In La. • PUBLIC HEALTHCBS: Serious Questions About HPV Vaccine • • TREATMENTProbiotics Help Babies Fight Off Respiratory IllsU.S. FDA to Urge Black Box Warning For Epilepsy Drugs • • • • PEOPLEMissing Iowa Youth's Body Discovered Thursday AfternoonAutistic Man Rescued In Wisconsin Woods, Leaves HospitalFamily Booted From Flight To Get Refund Alba Planning Her Parenting Style • COMMENTARYAutism and This Election Send your LETTER SPECIAL NOTE to our Comcast readers: If you are reading this report, then

the problems with Comcast blocking it are fixed. You can get all back editions of the Schafer Autism Report at this link: tinyurl.com/ylclr6FINANCEAutism Disrupts Work And Paytinyurl.com/6zjc47 Parents of children with autism earn less and report more disruptions in their work, a new report by the American Academy of Pediatrics found. An emerging body of work is showing the impact an autism diagnosis has on a family, in part because there

aren't enough services and support for this growing population. But researchers are still figuring out the impact. We reported on the strain and higher incidence of anxiety and depression among parents of children with autism in May: "Parents are autism's hidden victims", tinyurl.com/56wvpd We learned today that more than twice as many parents, 39 percent, reported quitting, passing on a job or making major changes in a job because of child care issues tied to a child with autism, in a study of parents of 16,282 preschool-age children. "This effect was 3 times larger than the effect of poverty," the AMA journal Pediatrics reported in an article published today. "Given the child care arrangements, it seems that parents of children with ASD (autism spectrum disorders) are modifying employment to enable the typical child with ASD to

attend school-related services and receive adequate wrap-around care. Doing so, however, must require substantial accommodation, because families with a child with ASD were 7 times more likely to report that child care problems affected employment than comparable families with typically developing children. These accommodations probably result in lower household income." - Pediatrics, July, 2008. The article highlighted other research: - "A nationally representative study estimated that households with a child with autism earn 14 percent less income than demographically and educationally comparable households." - "Fathers of children with autism were less likely to report full-time employment compared with other fathers and were more likely to work part-time."For rest of today's SAR click here:www.sarnet.org/frm/forsar.htm Today's SAR is provided through the support of paid subscription readers. - THANK YOU - $35 for 1 year - or free!www.sarnet.org Copyright Notice: The above items are copyright protected. They are for our readers' personal education or research purposes only and provided at their request. Articles may not be further reprinted or used commercially without consent from the copyright holders. To find the copyright holders, follow the referenced website link provided at the beginning of each item. Lenny Schafer editor@... The Schafer Autism Report is a non-profit corporation Unsubscribe here: www.sarnet.org/frm/unsub2.htm_______________________________________________SARnets mailing listSARnets@...http://lists.igc.org/mailman/listinfo/sarnetsYou can unsubscribe send email:http://www.sarnet.org/frm/unsub2.htm-- You are subscribed as:

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