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• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Caregivers
• Open Access Document
• Pediatric Chiropractic
• Sleep

Autistic children present with a multitude of symptoms common to the syndrome. Getting to sleep, maintaining a normal sleep cycle and quality of sleep are often problem-atic. Many therapeutic approaches, including medications, nutraceutical supplementation, behavioral modification, development of a sleep routine, harmonic resonances, and various forms of bodywork are used with varying degrees of success.

Caregivers of autistic children are known to suffer stress that often contributes to development of disease, reduced resilience, emotional and sleep dysfunction and other markers of poor health.2 When a parent or guardian on whom the child depends loses capacity to continue to deliver adequate care, both parties suffer and decline.

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