A successful Guiding Relationship takes two active participants. But as autism interrupts natural development, infants shut down in their ability to participate and can offer nothing for parents to respond to or guide.
The most devastating consequence of autism is the loss of access to a Guiding Relationship for infants, which is vital for their growth and development.
In this episode, Dr. Gutstein explain what is happening initially in the brains of autistic infants as they begin to diverge from typical development.
Dr. Gutstein continues to discuss the typical development of infants in order to lay a foundation for understanding what is happening to our autistic kids.
In this episode, Dr. Gutstein continues to discuss the similarities and differences of typically-developing infants and those who are later diagnosed with autism.
In this first podcast, Dr. Steven Gutstein starts at the beginning by explaining what happens in infant development in the first months of life.
