Understanding Autism w/ Asma Sadiq; MD | Autism Video Lecture | Understanding and Treating Autism - Health & Fitness

hi I'm dr. oz Majah Miller Sadiq I'm a
developmental pediatrician I've been
working at Beth Israel Medical Center's
director of child development since 1997
we are now merging with Mount Sinai so
they're going to be a lot of changes in
case you need to track me down but I
have an interesting journey and how I
got into this work I worked initially as
a pediatrician having come from Pakistan
to Harlem Hospital and having trained
and worked with general pediatrics and
going into private practice and working
with asthma immunization etc and I
always was interested in working with
self-esteem and I wanted to immunize
children with their self-esteem and I
got into child development so working
with children as a pediatrician I
actually stepped down from a private
practice and went to lead a fellowship
at Hackensack Medical Center in
developmental and behavioral pediatrics
different boards came in with
neurodevelopmental developmental
behavioral I did them both because of
wanting to have my credentials right but
I got an interesting opportunity whilst
working at Beth Israel to do a
fellowship or a faculty development
program and integrative medicine and
actually did a two-year fellowship and
integrative medicine through the
University of Arizona with the dr.
Andrew wild program and it allowed me
and taught me to widen my spectrum and
my approach as I worked with children
with developmental disabilities from
using a lot more holistic I think as
pediatricians we are holistic we work
with the child we work with the family
were involved with the community in
schools and that is just who we are but
using other modalities of getting into
nutrition and using supplements and
using herbs and other paradigms was very
interesting for me and something that
parents are also looking for so the
combination seemed to to work as an area
of interest for me and also in need of
parents because it gives them a little
bit more control and I think parents are
actually the ultimate caregivers you
know they are the advocates for their
children
and as they develop we are their
partners and that's how I see it that is
my philosophy that I listen to the
parent I listen to their concerns their
got their experience with their child
because every child is individual and
the parent is very significant and
giving you that information so you need
to be a good listener to be a good
healer because the healing process
happens together so I am very passionate
about this work I feel that children are
really the Canaries in the coal mine and
the most vulnerable and it really brings
parents and people and community
together people will do more for their
children their for themselves and when
you see a child having an issue it pulls
the whole family together I can't throw
it apart and challenge it but generally
people go beyond themselves for their
child and that is for me a very
significant bond and something that
makes me go beyond myself and I think
this kind of work
appeals to me both as at an emotional
level being a parent myself but also at
an academic level because there's so
much new research that's happening and
so many more tools and interventions
that we can do with children especially
children who are diagnosed with all the
symptoms of autism I see it like the tip
of the iceberg there there's diagnosis
of speech delay obsessive OCD mad a
little bit of what we call other
conditions all this labeling these
subsets of social phobia or OCD I think
we the way we understand medicine is
changing because we are now learning to
understand these children differently
and work with biomechanical
individuality which makes this work very
special so in this series we're going to
cover different aspects of children with
autism spectrum disorders and commonly
asked questions and concerns that
parents have that they go looking up and
trying to find information for their
child I've tried to give an overview of
diagnostic criteria of common behaviors
of early red flag signs that
concern of different therapeutic
modalities educational interventions
behavioral interventions as well as some
medical and biomedical approaches as
well as the research that's out there
and little nuggets of my experience and
little tips that I can share with you I
hope this is useful and I'm available
I'm sure you can track me down but I
work in Beth Israel Medical Center part
of the Mount Sinai Medical system and I
love working with special children
because I do think these children are
very special