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遙遠星球的孩子/Children From The Distant Planet
有這麼一群人 從外太空來到地球 和我們生活在一起
第一次 讓我們踏進他們神秘的內在領域 窺看那不可思議的心靈宇宙
2010 / 台灣 / Color / 200 mins / 紀錄 / 普遍級
導演： 沈可尚 Ko-Shang Shen
演員：
影片資料
台灣第一部以自閉症為主題的紀錄片。目前在全世界診斷出有自閉症的人數逐年增加，但大眾對自閉症的認識，大多仍停留在「孤僻」、「任性」、「不合群」或「某方面的天才」等刻板印象。事實上，自閉症者是由於腦部「神經生理性」的發展差異，使得他們有著奇特的感知方式、思考邏輯，從而顯得他們非常與眾不同。
【遙遠星球的孩子】將從「自閉症是什麼」出發，到深入拍攝自閉症者的生活點滴、探索其獨特的心靈宇宙，期能藉由兼具廣度與深度的內容，讓大眾在認識自閉症之外，也能認識到每一個個體，都是獨一無二且珍貴的！
導演介紹
1999年畢業於國立台灣藝術大學電影系導演組。早期作品【與山】、【噤聲三角】充滿詩意和強烈批判精神，近年完成多部紀錄片，包括【賽鴿風雲】、【野球孩子】，成績斐然，被譽為台灣新生代中最值得期待的創作者。除此之外，沈可尚也投身業界，在多部得獎電影、紀錄片及MV中擔任導演及攝影師工作。
作品年表
1999 與山
2000 噤聲三角
2006 賽鴿風雲
2008 野球孩子
自閉症之謎
星星的孩子》作者天寶葛蘭丁曾經說過，「假如把自閉症的基因從人類文明中清除掉，我們現在可能還停留在史前穴居時代，整天聚集蹲坐在洞口，東家長西家短聊天度日。」
從嬰兒時期開始，人一生所有的行為基礎，就不知不覺地在腦中被有系統地建立起來了。對新鮮事物充滿好奇，想和別人分享自己的喜怒哀樂，從別人的表情和肢體語言理解對方的心情，學會在不同的場合，因交談對象不同，話題不同，察言觀色地與人群互動。但你是否曾經想過，世界上並不是所有人都如此理所當然的擁有這些能力。
我們身邊每1000人當中至少有6個人，他們沒有我們以為是與生俱來的本能，他們無法使用語言，無法表達自己，無法與人互動、理解別人的心意，甚至無法看著你的眼睛，就像被放在陌生的孤島上，獨自生活著。
過去，他們曾經被當成精神病患、被視為惡魔附身、被認為智能不足。也有些人，像是達斯汀霍夫曼在《雨人》中飾演的角色，因為特出的才能，或許是腦子裡存在著一部隱形的超級電腦，可以隨時計算出萬年曆，也或許是有著過目不忘的「相機眼」，在空中飛行30分鐘就可以鉅細靡遺、分毫不差的畫出所飛過地區的圖像，被當成奇人異事而受媒體追蹤報導。這些人有這怎樣的共通性？他們的問題又出在哪裡？它是一種疾病嗎？它是一種生理缺陷嗎？還是它是一種獨特的人格特質？
這些自古以來爭論不休的命題，在70年前才被醫界定義為－自閉症。
《遙遠星球的孩子》第一集〈自閉症之謎〉，深入淺出的從歷史、醫學、社會、家庭等各種角度試圖窺見迄今仍然無法解開的謎題。從將自閉症歸因於父母疏於照顧的「冰箱母親」理論，以及醫學界以各種研究方式和論述，像是基因自發性突變、鏡像神經元受損、腦部發展障礙等。更重要的，是在這些到目前為止仍然找不到解開自閉症關鍵的科學研究之外，我們從自閉症和自閉症者身上，展開我們對於「人的本質」、對於「自我與異己」的重新思考與認識。
自閉症透過另一個路徑在看待這個世界，這個路徑或許和我們所熟悉的不同，所以我們也會不習慣，也會害怕，就像他們處在我們視為理所當然的世界所感受到的恐懼一樣。但如果我們將自閉特質也視為人格特質的一項，將自閉症視為我們從中學習身為人類意義的老師，而不是將這些特質視為一定要被改變，應該要治療的疾病，或許我們可以在理解中相互尊重、成長，學習及豐富深層的生命意義。
肯納症的迷思—沈可尚的公益紀錄片 《遙遠星球的孩子》
2011-05-31 22:55:52 PChome 個人新聞台
首次接觸這部沈可尚作品《遙遠星球的孩子》，是留意到桂綸鎂擔任推廣大使，再從台灣奇摩網路中看到這部以自閉症為題的公益紀錄片。此片不僅漂亮地入圍2011年台北電影節的紀錄片單元，還捨棄在傳統院線安排上映，破天荒讓人能毫無限制的看到全片。話題十足的背後，《遙遠星球的孩子》導演沈可尚只有一個簡單的出發點，只望更多人從關懷、理解、接納、認同、平等待遇等生命的議題切入正視肯納症，以及與關懷在台灣生活的這些孩子。
自閉症是為什麼﹖為什麼患者會有這些症狀﹖如何治療他們﹖自閉症一直以來不被社會大眾所真正認識，往往被認為是「孤僻」、「任性」或是某方面天才等誤解。沈可尚在此片一開首已強調「自閉症」三個字(大陸稱︰孤獨症)令世人誤解了肯納症(Kanner's Syndrome)的人們。全片分為四章節，第一、二節《我是蔡傑》和《我也很高興認識你》分別走訪多位真實人物和他們的家庭，嘗試以日常生活的角度全面探討在台灣生活的肯納症者。第三節《吹泡泡》的主角是新加坡青年陳毅雄，他透過成長中走出肯納症的障礙，讓觀眾更了解他們不同於多數正常人的內心之窗和思想邏輯，以及感受他們最不被外人知道的情感。沈可尚在第四節《自閉症之謎》由淺入深探討一些肯納症的迷思，但當然連現今醫學昌明的廿二世紀也解釋不了肯納症的因由，望各位勿寄望在這部紀錄片中了解它一切。
片名《遙遠星球的孩子》，就是沈可尚對這些肯納症人們最貼切的描述—他們只是從另一個星球來的孩子，與我們地球人共處。每節加插簡單但生動的動畫，加上沈可尚親自為某些章節配上發自內心的旁白，默默地伴著觀眾206分鐘，隨著紀錄片人物之間種種自然的互動畫面與細節，看到在艱辛的過程，卻為主人翁所付出的努力感到莫名的欣喜。
2010年，薛曉路導演、李連杰和文章共襄盛舉拍成劇情片《海洋天堂》，感人至深；柏林最佳導演獎林正盛也以肯納症為題拍攝《一閃一閃亮晶晶》，備受大眾關注。《遙遠星球的孩子》歷時兩年半拍攝，團隊深入台灣各地，採訪超過百位肯納症者家庭，透過靜靜的鏡頭卻拍出動人的生活點滴。繼台北電影節，出品人陳國富和沈導演也攜此公益紀錄片往神州，獲周迅、陳坤力挺，為大陸版重新配音。根據影片的資料，在你我生活之中，每一千人中就有六個人無法與人溝通、來自《遙遠星球的孩子》，然而，這些孩子的身上擁有著你我無法理解卻異常精彩的世界。
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周迅《這世界唯一的你》首播 獻給孤獨症者
2011年04月01日 18:47 北京新浪網
周迅錄製“孤獨症關懷周”主題曲《這世界唯一的你》
新浪娛樂訊 4月2日是“世界自閉症日”，由周迅演唱的“孤獨症關懷周”主題曲《這世界唯一的你》首播。周迅說，他們不是病人，他們只是跟我們不一樣，盡管這世界會有缺憾，但我們都應該相信，每一朵花開自有它的道理，獻給全球6700萬孤獨症人群，——《這世界唯一的你》。
周迅在出品人陳國富的推薦下看了《遙遠星球的孩子》，觀看過程中泣不成聲。因為自己平日也不是多話的人，跟人交流很多時候不一定能找到正確的頻率，正因為感同身受的共鳴讓周迅覺得，這世界上有很多不擅於交流的人，也許你只需要拉他們一把，或者給予更多的了解和鼓勵，他們的世界就會因此而改變。
隨後，周迅跟工作團隊一起討論怎樣能夠切實的幫助孤獨症者，真正的幫助並不僅僅是物質上的，最重要的是讓整個社會來了解什麼是孤獨症，我們與孤獨症者相處時應怎麼做。陳國富，周迅一起向大衆推廣這部紀錄片，並且啟動“孤獨症關懷周”一系列主題活動。在這過程中，彭青的一首DEMO《這世界唯一的你》脫穎而出，大家都覺得非常契合活動的主題，歌曲本身也符合周迅的氣質，於是有了這一首主題曲。
當一首歌擁有了真實的故事做背景
那麼它就有了鮮活的生命
好的歌手要做的不是唱歌
而是 講一個好故事
為了符合歌曲乾淨溫暖的氣質，《這世界唯一的你》在編曲中用鋼琴和弦樂烘托出乾淨的背景，作者彭青也來到錄音棚錄製和聲。周迅正式錄唱是在場工作人員都驚呆了，她精準掌握每一句歌詞的情緒，每一次感情的起伏有張有弛，所有專業製作人都知道，歌手錄音可以調一些音準或節奏，唯一不可以修整的就是演唱者聲音的情緒及傳達的情感。而那正是一首歌最打動人的地方。
觀看《遙遠星球的孩子》中的觸動，幫紀錄片配音，正式錄音時周迅特意把棚內的燈光調暗，讓那些觸及靈魂的人和事做背景，周迅用真實的情感演唱這首歌。沒有任何花俏和匠氣，一切從心出發，錄音的過程中周迅每次落淚，走出棚自己調整情緒再繼續進唱，從晚上9點一直工作到凌晨4點。每一首歌其實都應該擁有自己的故事，只有擁有來自生活中真實的元素，一首歌才會有它的生命，這種鮮活而厚重的生命力才可以感動歌者也感動聽衆。
而一個好的歌手，真正要做的不僅僅是唱歌而已，更多的時候她應該是一個講故事的人，用樂器，人聲，跟你娓娓道來一個美好的，有關幸福，眼淚和慰藉的故事。
如果一個人有很多很多的眼淚
那麼她的心就會動 會痛 會講話 更會微笑
那麼她心裏一定有很美好的東西
從觀看影片《遙遠星球的孩子》時泣不成聲，到配音哭得稀裡嘩啦。錄音時默默掉眼淚，重新調整嗓音又繼續演唱，在新聞發布會上因為聽到了孤獨症教育協會創辦人講述的真實故事數度哽咽。問她怎麼了，她也說不出來，只說：“我心裏難受。”身邊的工作人員了解這些眼淚背後美好單純的願望，都盡力協助項目的進行和推廣。
因為我們知道，如果一個人有很多很多的眼淚，那麼她的心一定是會動的，會痛的，會講話的，更會微笑的。是有很多很美好的東西藏在那裏，才會對這個世界所有缺憾和美麗動容。
【遙遠星球的孩子】- 周迅獻唱主題曲 - 這世界唯一的你 - YouTube
影片網址 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2qDpR3E5gI
《這世界唯一的你》 歌詞
主唱：周迅
作曲：彭青．唐恬
填詞：彭青
這世界唯一的你 霸佔了我所有表情 這是上天給我的獎勵
在遙遠星球的你 用你最獨特的頻率 告訴我世界美麗又乾淨
就算飛到了世界的另一邊 另外一邊 我也不會 因為這樣長長的距離而感到膽怯
每一顆心都擁有自己的語言 因為了解 各自喜悅 不用常常留在身邊卻住在我 心裡面
這世界唯一的你 霸佔了我所有表情 這是上天給我的獎勵
在遙遠星球的你 用你最獨特的頻率 告訴我世界美麗又乾淨
就算飛到了世界的另一邊 另外一邊 我也不會 因為這樣長長的距離而感到膽怯
每一顆心都擁有自己的語言 因為了解 各自喜悅 不用常常留在身邊卻住在我 心裡面
這世界唯一的你 溫暖著我不安的心 你擁有最善良的眼睛
在遙遠星球的你 讓我用甜蜜的耳語 告訴你我會一直在這裡
給了我這世界唯一的你
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台灣自閉症紀錄片獨家首播【野球孩子】、【茱麗葉】金鐘獎最佳導演沈可尚最新力作「遙遠星球的孩子」完整影集馬上看 http://tw.movie.yahoo.com/autism/
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一步一腳印_發現新台灣_無止盡父母成長路 (TVBS 新聞台 -- Youtube)
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研究嬰兒腦波 提早發現自閉症
中央社 – 2012年1月27日 下午10:38
（中央社倫敦27日綜合外電報導）一個國際研究團隊表示，有可能比原先認為還要早偵測出自閉症。刊登於「當代生物」（Current Biology）的研究報告指出，早在嬰兒6個月時就能辨識出他們腦波的不同。
自閉症的行為症狀通常是在小孩1到兩歲時發展出來。
自閉症慈善團體表示，在早期階段偵測出自閉症，有助於治療。
一般認為，英國每100名小孩就有1名罹患自閉症廣泛障礙。受到自閉症影響的男生多於女生。雖然自閉症沒有「療法」，但是教育與行為計畫有所幫助。
倫敦大學柏貝克學院（Birkbeck College）的強生（Mark Johnson）教授告訴英國廣播公司（BBC）：「普遍的觀點是，如果我們能在全面症狀開始出現前干預，像是訓練計畫，至少在某些案例上，我們可以減輕全面症狀。」
英國科學家在研究上說，有自閉症的小孩早在1歲時就有不同的大腦反應。這項研究可能可幫助醫生在更早階段診斷出疾病。
英國研究人員研究104名6到10個月大的嬰兒，並在他們3歲時再做一次研究，發現有自閉症的小孩，在與他人眼神接觸時，有不尋常的大腦活動模式。
領導這項研究的強生說，這項調查結果指出，直接的腦部測量可能有助於早在嬰兒6個月大時，預測出他們未來罹患自閉症的風險。
全球約有1%的人有自閉症，自閉症包括廣泛障礙，從智能障礙與全然無法溝通到相對較輕微的症狀，像是在亞斯伯格症候群（Asperger's syndrome）患者身上看到的情況。
這些情況的核心特徵是溝通能力差與社交有困難，醫生希望能提早找到診斷這些症狀的方法，因此他們可以介入協助自閉症小孩發展溝通技巧。
典型的自閉症行為通常不會在兩歲前出現，而且通常只有在兩歲以後才能做出確切診斷。
強生在電話訪問中說：「由於在（1歲以下）年幼階段沒有明確的行為跡象，因此我們希望了解，以更直接方式測量大腦活動，是否能找出早期警訊。」（譯者：中央社張曉雯）
自閉兒增多非母過 父齡是關鍵
【中央社╱巴黎22日綜合外電報導】2012.08.23 07:25 pm
一般認為女性較晚生育會提高兒童基因突變風險，但冰島科學家今天發表的研究報告指出，父親年齡才是造成胎兒出現新基因突變因而使自閉症機率升高的最大原因。
冰島DeCODE遺傳公司執行長史提凡松（KariStefansson）在「自然」（Nature）期刊發表報告指出，年齡較長的男性讓女性受孕時，會提高小孩出現非遺傳性的新基因突變機率。父親年齡每老1歲，子女的新突變基因平均增加兩種，而父齡每老16歲，突變基因即增加1倍。換言之，36歲父親生子所出現新突變基因的機率，比20歲的父親多1倍。
雖然這種新基因突變不一定有害，但只要對關鍵基因有一個改變，就可能造成某種疾病，突變基因越多，風險也隨之提高。
DeCODE的研究號稱是相關領域規模最大的研究，這讓人注意到，一般提及先天疾病兒時，通常會歸咎母親生育年齡，往往忽略父齡也是關鍵。
母親生育年齡已知會造成唐氏症等染色體病變，不過那些疾病的發展過程，與此份研究發現的基因突變不同。
研究以冰島78組子女有自閉症或精神分裂症的父、母、子（女）三人家庭為對象，排序他們的基因組，尋找父母體內並不存在的孩子基因碼，結果發現高達97.1%的新基因突變都與父齡有關，其餘2.9%則是環境因子等隨機影響造成，母齡與突變率「並無關連」。
現今新生兒平均有60種小規模的新基因突變，與父親相關的突變，視父齡不同，從25種到65種不等；與母親相關的突變維持在大約15%，而無論母親年齡為何。
史提凡松說：「傳統觀念將孩子的發育疾病歸咎於母親年齡，（但）我們的研究結果指向隨男性年齡增長，精子遺傳性突變的數量會增加。」
How a Physician Cured Her Son's Autism...
July 31 2011 | 334,451 views
( http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/31/dr-natasha-campbell-mcbride-on-gaps-nutritional-program.aspx )
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride has a full-time medical practice in the United Kingdom where she treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems.
Here, she shares her insights about Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), which can make a child particularly prone to vaccine damage, and the GAPS Nutritional program; a natural treatment for autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression and schizophrenia.
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
I'm thrilled to share this interview with you as Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride presents a truly fascinating and elegant description of the foundational conditions that contribute to autism, along with a pragmatic approach to help circumvent and stem the autism epidemic, which has been a perplexing puzzle for most of us.
Dr. Campbell is a medical doctor with a postgraduate degree in neurology. She worked as a neurologist and a neurosurgeon for several years before starting a family. When her first-born son was diagnosed autistic at the age of three, she was surprised to realize that her own profession had no answers…
Back in 1984, when she graduated from medical school, autism was an exceptionally rare disorder, with a prevalence of about 1 in 10,000.
"By the time I graduated from medical school I had never seen an autistic individual," she says. "… To be honest, the first autistic child that I encountered was my own… Five years ago we were diagnosing one child in 150, which is almost a 40-fold increase in incidence. Now in Britain and some countries, we are diagnosing one child in 66."
The rates are similar in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand as well. She quickly delved into research, looking for an answer for her son, and ended up getting a second postgraduate degree in human nutrition. As a result of her work, her son fully recovered and is no longer autistic.
Although originally from Russia, where she received her medical training, she moved to the UK about 20 years ago, and now has a clinic in Cambridge, England, where she treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems.
Early Treatment is Key
The treatment she developed is simply called the GAPS Nutritional Program, and as Dr. Campbell explains, the younger the child is when you start the treatment, the better the results.
"When we start the GAPS treatment at the age of 2, 3, 4, up to 5, you give your child a real chance to completely recover from autism, from ADHD, ADD, dyslexia and dyspraxia—and that larger group of children who do not fit into any diagnostic box… These are the children with whom doctors usually procrastinate. They ask the parents to bring the child in six months and again in six months to observe the child in order to just give the child a diagnosis and a very precious, very valuable time gets wasted that way while the child could have been helped," she says.
It All Starts in the Gut…
Dr. Campbell is convinced that autistic children are in fact born with perfectly normal brains and perfectly normal sensory organs.
"What happens in these children [is that] they do not develop normal gut flora from birth…" she says. "Gut flora is a hugely important part of our human physiology. Recently research in Scandinavia has demonstrated that 90 percent of all cells and all genetic material in a human body is our own gut flora. We are just a shell… a habitat for this mass of microbes inside us. We ignore them at our own peril.
…As a result, their digestive system—instead of being a source of nourishment for these children—becomes a major source of toxicity. These pathogenic microbes inside their digestive tract damage the integrity of the gut wall. So all sort of toxins and microbes flood into the bloodstream of the child, and get into the brain of the child. That usually happens in the second year of life in children who were breast fed because breastfeeding provides a protection against this abnormal gut flora. In children who were not breastfed, I see the symptoms of autism developing in the first year of life.
So breastfeeding is crucial to protect these children."
Brain Toxicity Leads to Symptoms of Autism
Children use all of their sensory organs to collect information from their environment, which is then passed to the brain for processing. This is a fundamental part of learning.
However, in children with Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), the toxicity flowing from their gut throughout their bodies and into their brains, clogs the brain with toxicity, preventing it from performing its normal function and process sensory information...
"Sensory information turns into this mush; into a noise in the child's brain, and from this noise the child cannot learn. They cannot decipher anything useful," she explains.
"That's why they don't learn how to communicate. They don't learn how to understand language, how to use language, how to develop all the natural instinctive behaviors and coping behaviors that normal children develop. The second year of life is crucial in the maturation of the brain of the baby. That's when communication skills develop and how instinctive behaviors develop and play skills develop in children and coping behaviors develop.
If the child's brain is clogged with toxicity, the child misses that window of opportunity of learning and starts developing autism depending on the mixture of toxins, depending on how severe the whole condition is, and how severely abnormal the gut flora is in the child."
GAPS may manifest as a conglomerate of symptoms that can fit the diagnosis of either autism, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), attention deficit disorder (ADD) without hyperactivity, dyslexia, dyspraxia, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, just to name a few possibilities...
How has Children's Gut Flora Become so Drastically Altered?
If the epidemic of autism and other learning disorders originate in the gut, what has changed in the past 25 years to alter children's gut flora into such an abnormal state?
Dr. Campbell explains:
"As far as science knows, the baby inside the mother's womb during nine months of gestation is sterile. The baby's gut is sterile. The baby acquires its gut flora at the time of birth, when the baby goes through the birth canal of the mother. So whatever lives in mom's birth canal, in mom's vagina, becomes the baby's gut flora.
So what lives in mom's vagina? It's a very richly populated area of a woman's body. The vaginal flora comes from the bowel. So if the mother has abnormal gut flora, she will have abnormal flora in her birth canal. Fathers are not exempt because fathers also have gut flora, and that gut flora populates their groin and they share their groin flora with the mother on a regular basis.
… I always collect health history from the mother, the father, and preferably even grandparents of the child. I find that we have a growing and a deepening epidemic of abnormalities in the gut flora, which began since Second World War when antibiotics were discovered. Every course of broad spectrum antibiotics wipes out the beneficial species of microbes in the gut, which leaves the pathogens in there uncontrolled."
The Massive Importance of Fermented Foods and Probiotics
This is why it's so important to 'reseed' your gut with fermented foods and probiotics when you're taking an antibiotic. If you aren't eating fermented foods, you most likely need to supplement with a probiotic on a regular basis, especially if you're eating a lot of processed foods.
"In parallel with beneficial microbes in the healthy gut, scientists have found thousands of different species of downright pathogenic disease-causing microbes; bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes. But as long as the good ones predominate in your gut, they control all the pathogens… They keep them in small colonies and they don't allow them to proliferate.
Every course of antibiotics tends to wipe out the beneficial bacteria and that gives a window of opportunity for the pathogens to proliferate, to grow uncontrolled, and to occupy new niches in your gut. The beneficial flora recovers, but different species of it take between two weeks to two months to recover in the gut and that's a window of opportunity for various pathogens to overgrow.
What I see in the families of autistic children is that 100 percent of mom's of autistic children have abnormal gut flora and health problems related to that. But then I look at grandmothers on the mother's side, and I find that the grandmothers also have abnormal gut flora, but much milder."
In essence, what we have is a generational build-up of abnormal gut flora, with each generation becoming ever more prone to being further harmed from the use of antibiotics—and vaccines as well, which I'll discuss in a moment.
Bottle-Feeding and Antibiotics Exact a Heavy Toll
Adding injury to insult is the significant decrease in breastfeeding. We now know that breastfed babies develop entirely different gut flora compared to bottle-fed babies. Infant formula never was, and never will be a healthy replacement to breast milk, for a number of reasons; altered gut flora being one of them.
Dr. Campbell discovered that a large percentage of the mothers of autistic children were bottle-fed. Then, as they received many courses of antibiotics throughout their childhood, the abnormalities in their gut flora further deepened.
"Ever since antibiotics were prescribed, particularly from the 50s and 60s, they were prescribed for every cough and sneeze. They really over-prescribed antibiotics. And with every course of antibiotics, the abnormalities in the gut flora would get deeper and deeper in these girls.
And then, at the age of 15, 16, these ladies were put on a contraceptive pill… [which] have a devastating effect on the gut flora. Nowadays ladies are taking it for quite a few years before they're ready to start their family."
So, to recap, bottle-feeding along with over-use of antibiotics and use of the contraceptive pill set the stage for increasingly abnormal gut flora with each passing generation. Then, add to that a diet of processed junk food and excessive consumption of high fructose corn syrup and you have a prescription for disaster in terms of intestinal health.
It's important to realize that processed foods and sugar almost exclusively feed pathogens in your digestive system, allowing them to proliferate.
"Many of these modern factors created a whole plethora of young ladies in our modern world who have quite deeply abnormal gut flora by the time they are ready to have their first child. This is the abnormal gut flora that they are passing through their children," she explains.
"So these babies acquire abnormal gut flora from the start and while the baby is breastfed the baby is receiving protection because whatever is in the mother's blood will be in her milk. Women who have abnormal gut flora would have immune factors in their blood, which they have developed against their own gut flora to protect them. These immune factors will be in their milk.
While the baby is breastfed, despite the fact that the baby has acquired abnormal gut flora from the mom, there will be some protection. But as soon as the breastfeeding stops that protection stops as well. That is the time when the abnormalities in the gut flora really flourish and the child starts sliding down into autism or ADHD or ADD or any other learning disability or physical problems such as diabetes type 1, for example, and celiac disease or other autoimmune conditions, or… asthma, eczema and other physical problems. That's where this epidemic comes from."
Changes are Urgently Needed
Unfortunately, all the factors that create abnormal gut flora are getting increasingly more prevalent, across the globe. This means that the next generation of young women having children will have even worse gut flora than their mothers, so the proportion of GAPS children being born predisposed to develop autism will be even higher!
"Our authorities need to understand that, and they need to be ready for that," Dr. Campbell warns.
The Role of Vaccines
As Dr. Campbell explains, babies are born not only with a sterile gut, but also with immature immune systems. And establishment of normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life plays a crucial role in appropriate maturation of your baby's immune system. Hence, babies who develop abnormal gut flora are left with compromised immune systems.
"Vaccinations have been developed, originally, for children with perfectly healthy immune systems," she says. "GAPS children are NOT fit to be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol."
Her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome contains an entire chapter outlining what health care professionals need to do to improve the vaccination strategy, because the standard vaccination protocol is bound to damage GAPS babies.
"It's a matter of the last straw breaking the camel's back," she explains. "So if the child is damaged enough, the vaccine can provide that last straw. But if it doesn't provide that last straw in a particular child, then it will get the child closer to the breaking point."
She also points out another risk factor of vaccines:
"What we also have to understand is that the pharmaceutical industry cannot patent natural viruses, natural bacteria or any microbe that nature has created. They have to genetically modify them before they can patent them," she says.
"So these vaccines contain genetically modified viruses, genetically modified microbes. We still haven't got enough data to know what exactly they're doing to the human body, and what exactly these genes are doing to our gut flora in these children."
How to Identify GAPS
Fortunately, it is possible to identify GAPS within the first weeks of your baby's life, which can help you make better informed decisions about vaccinations, and about how to proceed to set your child on the path to a healthy life.
One of the KEY issues is to screen all children BEFORE they are immunized, and if they have the metabolic characteristics of GAPS, they should NOT be immunized until that is reversed. This simple measure could prevent unnecessary and tragic trauma in hundreds of thousands of families. In all likelihood there are far more children being harmed by vaccines than being helped at this point. By simply modifying the process one could radically reduce the risk of a child developing an illness on the autism spectrum.
Dr. Campbell describes the entire process in her book.
In her practice, she starts out by collecting a complete health history of the parents, and their gut health is assessed. Then, within the first few days of life, the stool of the child can be analyzed to determine the state of her gut flora, followed by a urine test to check for metabolites, which can give you a picture of the state of your child's immune system.
"Now we have excellent tests that find chemicals produced by various species of microbes in the gut," she says. "… So by analyzing urine, indirectly we can say what kind of species of microbes are sitting in the gut of the child, or what kind of chemicals they are producing."
"… If the child has abnormal gut flora we can assume that the child has a compromised immunity, and these children must not be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol because they simply get damaged by it. They should not be vaccinated."
The non-invasive tests described in her book are now available in most laboratories around the world, and typically run around $80-100 each in the US. This is peanuts compared to the incredible expense of treating an autistic child once the damage is done.
"Our children are being used as a market for selling vaccines," Dr. Campbell says. "The children are vaccinated in our Western world, I'm afraid, not for the sake of saving the child but for the sake of making money… It's an extremely sad and worrying situation."
Siblings are Also at High-Risk for Vaccine Damage
Another group of children that may also over-react to vaccinations are siblings of children with autism, severe hyperactivity, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental conditions, or type 1diabetes.
"Younger siblings of autistic children, and younger siblings of children with all these disabilities should not be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol," she warns.
"The immune tests that I was talking about can be repeated every six months or every year for these children. Whenever the child is considered to be perfectly healthy and the immune system shows itself to be perfectly well functioning, only then can a vaccination be considered for these children because we simply cannot take the risk."
Strategies to Restore Health to Children with GAPS and Autism
Dr. Campbell has developed a very effective treatment for GAP children, called GAPS Nutritional Protocol. It is described in great detail in her book, Gut and Psychology Syndrome, which is designed to be a self-help book.
"[P]robably tens of thousands of people now, around the world, are saving their children with this program," she says. "… The majority of these people just bought the book, read it, followed the program, and got fantastic results."
In summary, the protocol consists of three elements:
1.Diet—the GAPS diet consists of easily-digestible foods that are dense in nutrition, including fermented foods.
According to Dr. Campbell: "On average, people adhere to the diet a couple of years. It takes two years to drive out the pathogenic flora, to reestablish normal flora in the gut, to heal and seal the damaged gut lining in these people and turn the gut back to being a major source of nourishment for the person instead of being a source of toxicity."
2.Food supplements, including: probiotics and vitamins D and A in the form of cod liver oil, although sun exposure is also an important part for GAPS patients, for proper vitamin D production.
3.Detoxification—The GAPS nutritional protocol will naturally clear out most toxins. Dr. Campbell does not use any kind of drugs or chemicals to remove toxins as it can be too drastic for some, and can produce damaging side effects. Instead she recommends juicing as a gentle but effective way of removing toxic build-up, as well as baths with Epsom salt, sea salt, seaweed powder, apple cider vinegar, and baking soda.
Dr. Campbell discusses many additional and priceless details relating to this protocol, so please, set aside some time to listen to the interview in its entirety, or read through the transcript.
More Information
I have always found that the best health strategy is prevention, and I'm sure many would agree. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Now that we've identified a way to help prevent autism and related neurological and physical damage from manifesting, I can't urge you enough to take this information to heart, and to pay close attention to your gut health well before planning your pregnancy, and to take the simple and relatively inexpensive precautions described by Dr. Campbell that can significantly reduce the chances of your child being harmed.
The avalanche of autism must be curbed—and quickly! And for now the burden rests on you, the parent, to take control of your and your child's health, and to arm yourself with information that can have life-altering ramifications.
If you're pregnant, planning a pregnancy, or know someone who is, I can't recommend Dr. Campbell's book enough. Buy it for yourself, or as a gift.
You can also find more information on Dr. Campbell's website: www.GAPS.me, and on her blog at www.doctor-natasha.com.
"We have an absolute epidemic of GAPS – Gut and Psychology Syndrome and Gut and Physiology Syndrome, and the number of sufferers are growing," she says. "I'm completely overwhelmed by demands for consultations, and people all over the world need GAPS practitioners...
So I am preparing a training course for medical practitioners and health practitioners. The first wave of training will be done in September-October in Seattle, Chicago, New York and Dallas.
We will cover the U.S. with a good number of GAPS trained practitioners. This will be people who will be able to take you through the diet, through the whole protocol, and they will run local GAPS groups where all the patients and other GAPS people will be able to come weekly or fortnightly to exchange recipes, exchange news, help each other, give each other moral support and learn more about GAPS."
Once she's done the trainings in the US, she will continue on to Europe and other parts of the world. If you're a doctor, nutritionist, dietician, osteopath, homeopath or other health practitioner and you're interested in becoming a certified GAPS practitioner, please see this link for more information.
Autism Nutrition -- Nutritional & biomedical support for children with autism
Probiotics for Autism
( http://autism-nutrition.com/probiotics-for-autism )
A medical study on probiotics for autism has proven so successful that the study ‘failed’, according to a New Scientist report on September 9, 2006. The study, by Prof Glenn Gibson at Reading University, UK, found that autistic children vastly improved their concentration and behavior when given probiotics, or ‘friendly bacteria’. It involved 40 autistic children, aged 4 to 8, half of whom were given the probiotic bacteria L. Plantanum while the other half received a dummy ‘probiotic’.
probiotics for autism 100It was supposed to have been a blind study, where the participants were not told who were taking the actual probiotics and who were taking placebos or dummy medicine. As part of this probiotics for autism study, parents were asked to record their children’s mood and behavior in a diary. The results were too obvious. Parents whose autistic children were taking the actual probiotics saw such great improvements in their children’s behavior that they knew their children were taking the real thing.
Thus, problems arose during the ‘crossover’ point of this probiotics for autism study, where the two groups were supposed to switch medicines. Many of the parents whose children were taking the actual probiotics refused to make the switch as they wanted their autistic children to continue their improvement. One parent said it was “heartbreaking” to have to stop their child taking it.
“It was really challenging for us and the parents,” said Prof Gibson. “The trial ultimately failed because of the large number of drop-outs.” Due to the high drop-out rate, Prof Gibson was not able to draw any firm, ‘scientific’ conclusion from his probiotics for autism study. Prof Gibson noted, however, that autistic children often suffer bowel conditions and a previous study had found high levels of a “bad” bacteria called clostridia in their gut.
The probiotics for autism study was designed to reduce the levels of clostridia and promote “friendly” bacteria instead, to see what effect this would have. Prof Gibson said the children appeared to show fewer signs of autistic behavior when taking the probiotics supplement, which was given in a powder once a day. “Very subjectively, we asked the parents to fill in diaries about the mood of the children. We got very positive feedback generally,” he said.
Prof Gibson said that certain kinds of clostridia produced neurotoxins, which potentially could be the cause of autism or a contributory factor. However, he said this was speculation. The apparent improvement which the parents observed could also simply be because the children had felt better. “If your gut is not behaving yourself, you feel rough,” Prof Gibson said. The first bacteria in the gut is received from the mother during birth. Later, more bacteria comes from the outside environment, especially from the diet.
By the time a person reaches adulthood, he or she would have about 100 trillion, or 100,000,000,000,000 bacteria in the intestines – which is more than 10 times the number of human cells in the body. Most of the bacteria in the guts are probiotics or “friendly” bacteria but when a person develops an infection, the proportion of harmful bacteria increases. The use of antibiotics destroys both friendly and harmful bacteria. It often causes more harm than good by creating an ‘empty’ environment whereby harmful bacteria, as well as yeast, can multiply more quickly and easily.
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of probiotics as a natural way to restore the balance of friendly bacteria in the guts. This has many benefits including enhanced immunity, but also positive effects on mood and behavior. Many parents of autistic children have reported vast improvements in their children’s behavior with the use of probiotic supplements. We recommend a special, ultra-high potency probiotics supplement specially formulated for children with autism.
洪秀柱聯手謝國樑 守護自閉童
【中央社╱台北31日電】2013.01.31 03:21 pm
為了讓民眾更認識自閉兒童（暱稱星兒），立法院副院長洪秀柱和國民黨立委謝國樑攜手拍攝公益短片，號召民眾一起守護星兒。
中華民國自閉症總會今天舉行守護星兒公益短片首播記者會，並邀請協助拍攝短片的洪秀柱、謝國樑出席。洪秀柱和謝國樑也和在場的星兒一起大秀舞技。
洪秀柱表示，這次參與短片拍攝是她在大銀幕的處女秀，與星兒接觸過程中，她也更瞭解星兒，知道星兒不擅言詞、不知如何表達情緒，因此未來更知道如何和星兒互動，她承諾願擔任星兒的守護星。
謝國樑知道星兒要拍公益短片，馬上義不容辭答應參與演出，在後製過程中，還親自為公益短片配音。短片完成後，謝國樑也為公益短片尋找播放通路，希望讓更多民眾接觸到這支短片，傳遞星兒的感受、喚起民眾對星兒的重視。
中華民國自閉症總會表示，透過守護星兒短片，希望讓民眾更瞭解星兒、尊重星兒，為他們營造友善和諧的環境，星兒也親手栽種盆栽，感謝立委的鼎力相助；守護星兒公益短片之後將在秀泰影城、國賓影城、全家超商、麥當勞、高雄捷運等通路陸續播映。
有這麼一群人 從外太空來到地球 和我們生活在一起
第一次 讓我們踏進他們神秘的內在領域 窺看那不可思議的心靈宇宙
2010 / 台灣 / Color / 200 mins / 紀錄 / 普遍級
導演： 沈可尚 Ko-Shang Shen
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影片資料
台灣第一部以自閉症為主題的紀錄片。目前在全世界診斷出有自閉症的人數逐年增加，但大眾對自閉症的認識，大多仍停留在「孤僻」、「任性」、「不合群」或「某方面的天才」等刻板印象。事實上，自閉症者是由於腦部「神經生理性」的發展差異，使得他們有著奇特的感知方式、思考邏輯，從而顯得他們非常與眾不同。
【遙遠星球的孩子】將從「自閉症是什麼」出發，到深入拍攝自閉症者的生活點滴、探索其獨特的心靈宇宙，期能藉由兼具廣度與深度的內容，讓大眾在認識自閉症之外，也能認識到每一個個體，都是獨一無二且珍貴的！
導演介紹
1999年畢業於國立台灣藝術大學電影系導演組。早期作品【與山】、【噤聲三角】充滿詩意和強烈批判精神，近年完成多部紀錄片，包括【賽鴿風雲】、【野球孩子】，成績斐然，被譽為台灣新生代中最值得期待的創作者。除此之外，沈可尚也投身業界，在多部得獎電影、紀錄片及MV中擔任導演及攝影師工作。
作品年表
1999 與山
2000 噤聲三角
2006 賽鴿風雲
2008 野球孩子
自閉症之謎
星星的孩子》作者天寶葛蘭丁曾經說過，「假如把自閉症的基因從人類文明中清除掉，我們現在可能還停留在史前穴居時代，整天聚集蹲坐在洞口，東家長西家短聊天度日。」
從嬰兒時期開始，人一生所有的行為基礎，就不知不覺地在腦中被有系統地建立起來了。對新鮮事物充滿好奇，想和別人分享自己的喜怒哀樂，從別人的表情和肢體語言理解對方的心情，學會在不同的場合，因交談對象不同，話題不同，察言觀色地與人群互動。但你是否曾經想過，世界上並不是所有人都如此理所當然的擁有這些能力。
我們身邊每1000人當中至少有6個人，他們沒有我們以為是與生俱來的本能，他們無法使用語言，無法表達自己，無法與人互動、理解別人的心意，甚至無法看著你的眼睛，就像被放在陌生的孤島上，獨自生活著。
過去，他們曾經被當成精神病患、被視為惡魔附身、被認為智能不足。也有些人，像是達斯汀霍夫曼在《雨人》中飾演的角色，因為特出的才能，或許是腦子裡存在著一部隱形的超級電腦，可以隨時計算出萬年曆，也或許是有著過目不忘的「相機眼」，在空中飛行30分鐘就可以鉅細靡遺、分毫不差的畫出所飛過地區的圖像，被當成奇人異事而受媒體追蹤報導。這些人有這怎樣的共通性？他們的問題又出在哪裡？它是一種疾病嗎？它是一種生理缺陷嗎？還是它是一種獨特的人格特質？
這些自古以來爭論不休的命題，在70年前才被醫界定義為－自閉症。
《遙遠星球的孩子》第一集〈自閉症之謎〉，深入淺出的從歷史、醫學、社會、家庭等各種角度試圖窺見迄今仍然無法解開的謎題。從將自閉症歸因於父母疏於照顧的「冰箱母親」理論，以及醫學界以各種研究方式和論述，像是基因自發性突變、鏡像神經元受損、腦部發展障礙等。更重要的，是在這些到目前為止仍然找不到解開自閉症關鍵的科學研究之外，我們從自閉症和自閉症者身上，展開我們對於「人的本質」、對於「自我與異己」的重新思考與認識。
自閉症透過另一個路徑在看待這個世界，這個路徑或許和我們所熟悉的不同，所以我們也會不習慣，也會害怕，就像他們處在我們視為理所當然的世界所感受到的恐懼一樣。但如果我們將自閉特質也視為人格特質的一項，將自閉症視為我們從中學習身為人類意義的老師，而不是將這些特質視為一定要被改變，應該要治療的疾病，或許我們可以在理解中相互尊重、成長，學習及豐富深層的生命意義。
肯納症的迷思—沈可尚的公益紀錄片 《遙遠星球的孩子》
2011-05-31 22:55:52 PChome 個人新聞台
首次接觸這部沈可尚作品《遙遠星球的孩子》，是留意到桂綸鎂擔任推廣大使，再從台灣奇摩網路中看到這部以自閉症為題的公益紀錄片。此片不僅漂亮地入圍2011年台北電影節的紀錄片單元，還捨棄在傳統院線安排上映，破天荒讓人能毫無限制的看到全片。話題十足的背後，《遙遠星球的孩子》導演沈可尚只有一個簡單的出發點，只望更多人從關懷、理解、接納、認同、平等待遇等生命的議題切入正視肯納症，以及與關懷在台灣生活的這些孩子。
自閉症是為什麼﹖為什麼患者會有這些症狀﹖如何治療他們﹖自閉症一直以來不被社會大眾所真正認識，往往被認為是「孤僻」、「任性」或是某方面天才等誤解。沈可尚在此片一開首已強調「自閉症」三個字(大陸稱︰孤獨症)令世人誤解了肯納症(Kanner's Syndrome)的人們。全片分為四章節，第一、二節《我是蔡傑》和《我也很高興認識你》分別走訪多位真實人物和他們的家庭，嘗試以日常生活的角度全面探討在台灣生活的肯納症者。第三節《吹泡泡》的主角是新加坡青年陳毅雄，他透過成長中走出肯納症的障礙，讓觀眾更了解他們不同於多數正常人的內心之窗和思想邏輯，以及感受他們最不被外人知道的情感。沈可尚在第四節《自閉症之謎》由淺入深探討一些肯納症的迷思，但當然連現今醫學昌明的廿二世紀也解釋不了肯納症的因由，望各位勿寄望在這部紀錄片中了解它一切。
片名《遙遠星球的孩子》，就是沈可尚對這些肯納症人們最貼切的描述—他們只是從另一個星球來的孩子，與我們地球人共處。每節加插簡單但生動的動畫，加上沈可尚親自為某些章節配上發自內心的旁白，默默地伴著觀眾206分鐘，隨著紀錄片人物之間種種自然的互動畫面與細節，看到在艱辛的過程，卻為主人翁所付出的努力感到莫名的欣喜。
2010年，薛曉路導演、李連杰和文章共襄盛舉拍成劇情片《海洋天堂》，感人至深；柏林最佳導演獎林正盛也以肯納症為題拍攝《一閃一閃亮晶晶》，備受大眾關注。《遙遠星球的孩子》歷時兩年半拍攝，團隊深入台灣各地，採訪超過百位肯納症者家庭，透過靜靜的鏡頭卻拍出動人的生活點滴。繼台北電影節，出品人陳國富和沈導演也攜此公益紀錄片往神州，獲周迅、陳坤力挺，為大陸版重新配音。根據影片的資料，在你我生活之中，每一千人中就有六個人無法與人溝通、來自《遙遠星球的孩子》，然而，這些孩子的身上擁有著你我無法理解卻異常精彩的世界。
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周迅《這世界唯一的你》首播 獻給孤獨症者
2011年04月01日 18:47 北京新浪網
周迅錄製“孤獨症關懷周”主題曲《這世界唯一的你》
新浪娛樂訊 4月2日是“世界自閉症日”，由周迅演唱的“孤獨症關懷周”主題曲《這世界唯一的你》首播。周迅說，他們不是病人，他們只是跟我們不一樣，盡管這世界會有缺憾，但我們都應該相信，每一朵花開自有它的道理，獻給全球6700萬孤獨症人群，——《這世界唯一的你》。
周迅在出品人陳國富的推薦下看了《遙遠星球的孩子》，觀看過程中泣不成聲。因為自己平日也不是多話的人，跟人交流很多時候不一定能找到正確的頻率，正因為感同身受的共鳴讓周迅覺得，這世界上有很多不擅於交流的人，也許你只需要拉他們一把，或者給予更多的了解和鼓勵，他們的世界就會因此而改變。
隨後，周迅跟工作團隊一起討論怎樣能夠切實的幫助孤獨症者，真正的幫助並不僅僅是物質上的，最重要的是讓整個社會來了解什麼是孤獨症，我們與孤獨症者相處時應怎麼做。陳國富，周迅一起向大衆推廣這部紀錄片，並且啟動“孤獨症關懷周”一系列主題活動。在這過程中，彭青的一首DEMO《這世界唯一的你》脫穎而出，大家都覺得非常契合活動的主題，歌曲本身也符合周迅的氣質，於是有了這一首主題曲。
當一首歌擁有了真實的故事做背景
那麼它就有了鮮活的生命
好的歌手要做的不是唱歌
而是 講一個好故事
為了符合歌曲乾淨溫暖的氣質，《這世界唯一的你》在編曲中用鋼琴和弦樂烘托出乾淨的背景，作者彭青也來到錄音棚錄製和聲。周迅正式錄唱是在場工作人員都驚呆了，她精準掌握每一句歌詞的情緒，每一次感情的起伏有張有弛，所有專業製作人都知道，歌手錄音可以調一些音準或節奏，唯一不可以修整的就是演唱者聲音的情緒及傳達的情感。而那正是一首歌最打動人的地方。
觀看《遙遠星球的孩子》中的觸動，幫紀錄片配音，正式錄音時周迅特意把棚內的燈光調暗，讓那些觸及靈魂的人和事做背景，周迅用真實的情感演唱這首歌。沒有任何花俏和匠氣，一切從心出發，錄音的過程中周迅每次落淚，走出棚自己調整情緒再繼續進唱，從晚上9點一直工作到凌晨4點。每一首歌其實都應該擁有自己的故事，只有擁有來自生活中真實的元素，一首歌才會有它的生命，這種鮮活而厚重的生命力才可以感動歌者也感動聽衆。
而一個好的歌手，真正要做的不僅僅是唱歌而已，更多的時候她應該是一個講故事的人，用樂器，人聲，跟你娓娓道來一個美好的，有關幸福，眼淚和慰藉的故事。
如果一個人有很多很多的眼淚
那麼她的心就會動 會痛 會講話 更會微笑
那麼她心裏一定有很美好的東西
從觀看影片《遙遠星球的孩子》時泣不成聲，到配音哭得稀裡嘩啦。錄音時默默掉眼淚，重新調整嗓音又繼續演唱，在新聞發布會上因為聽到了孤獨症教育協會創辦人講述的真實故事數度哽咽。問她怎麼了，她也說不出來，只說：“我心裏難受。”身邊的工作人員了解這些眼淚背後美好單純的願望，都盡力協助項目的進行和推廣。
因為我們知道，如果一個人有很多很多的眼淚，那麼她的心一定是會動的，會痛的，會講話的，更會微笑的。是有很多很美好的東西藏在那裏，才會對這個世界所有缺憾和美麗動容。
【遙遠星球的孩子】- 周迅獻唱主題曲 - 這世界唯一的你 - YouTube
影片網址 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2qDpR3E5gI
《這世界唯一的你》 歌詞
主唱：周迅
作曲：彭青．唐恬
填詞：彭青
這世界唯一的你 霸佔了我所有表情 這是上天給我的獎勵
在遙遠星球的你 用你最獨特的頻率 告訴我世界美麗又乾淨
就算飛到了世界的另一邊 另外一邊 我也不會 因為這樣長長的距離而感到膽怯
每一顆心都擁有自己的語言 因為了解 各自喜悅 不用常常留在身邊卻住在我 心裡面
這世界唯一的你 霸佔了我所有表情 這是上天給我的獎勵
在遙遠星球的你 用你最獨特的頻率 告訴我世界美麗又乾淨
就算飛到了世界的另一邊 另外一邊 我也不會 因為這樣長長的距離而感到膽怯
每一顆心都擁有自己的語言 因為了解 各自喜悅 不用常常留在身邊卻住在我 心裡面
這世界唯一的你 溫暖著我不安的心 你擁有最善良的眼睛
在遙遠星球的你 讓我用甜蜜的耳語 告訴你我會一直在這裡
給了我這世界唯一的你
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研究嬰兒腦波 提早發現自閉症
中央社 – 2012年1月27日 下午10:38
（中央社倫敦27日綜合外電報導）一個國際研究團隊表示，有可能比原先認為還要早偵測出自閉症。刊登於「當代生物」（Current Biology）的研究報告指出，早在嬰兒6個月時就能辨識出他們腦波的不同。
自閉症的行為症狀通常是在小孩1到兩歲時發展出來。
自閉症慈善團體表示，在早期階段偵測出自閉症，有助於治療。
一般認為，英國每100名小孩就有1名罹患自閉症廣泛障礙。受到自閉症影響的男生多於女生。雖然自閉症沒有「療法」，但是教育與行為計畫有所幫助。
倫敦大學柏貝克學院（Birkbeck College）的強生（Mark Johnson）教授告訴英國廣播公司（BBC）：「普遍的觀點是，如果我們能在全面症狀開始出現前干預，像是訓練計畫，至少在某些案例上，我們可以減輕全面症狀。」
英國科學家在研究上說，有自閉症的小孩早在1歲時就有不同的大腦反應。這項研究可能可幫助醫生在更早階段診斷出疾病。
英國研究人員研究104名6到10個月大的嬰兒，並在他們3歲時再做一次研究，發現有自閉症的小孩，在與他人眼神接觸時，有不尋常的大腦活動模式。
領導這項研究的強生說，這項調查結果指出，直接的腦部測量可能有助於早在嬰兒6個月大時，預測出他們未來罹患自閉症的風險。
全球約有1%的人有自閉症，自閉症包括廣泛障礙，從智能障礙與全然無法溝通到相對較輕微的症狀，像是在亞斯伯格症候群（Asperger's syndrome）患者身上看到的情況。
這些情況的核心特徵是溝通能力差與社交有困難，醫生希望能提早找到診斷這些症狀的方法，因此他們可以介入協助自閉症小孩發展溝通技巧。
典型的自閉症行為通常不會在兩歲前出現，而且通常只有在兩歲以後才能做出確切診斷。
強生在電話訪問中說：「由於在（1歲以下）年幼階段沒有明確的行為跡象，因此我們希望了解，以更直接方式測量大腦活動，是否能找出早期警訊。」（譯者：中央社張曉雯）
自閉兒增多非母過 父齡是關鍵
【中央社╱巴黎22日綜合外電報導】2012.08.23 07:25 pm
一般認為女性較晚生育會提高兒童基因突變風險，但冰島科學家今天發表的研究報告指出，父親年齡才是造成胎兒出現新基因突變因而使自閉症機率升高的最大原因。
冰島DeCODE遺傳公司執行長史提凡松（KariStefansson）在「自然」（Nature）期刊發表報告指出，年齡較長的男性讓女性受孕時，會提高小孩出現非遺傳性的新基因突變機率。父親年齡每老1歲，子女的新突變基因平均增加兩種，而父齡每老16歲，突變基因即增加1倍。換言之，36歲父親生子所出現新突變基因的機率，比20歲的父親多1倍。
雖然這種新基因突變不一定有害，但只要對關鍵基因有一個改變，就可能造成某種疾病，突變基因越多，風險也隨之提高。
DeCODE的研究號稱是相關領域規模最大的研究，這讓人注意到，一般提及先天疾病兒時，通常會歸咎母親生育年齡，往往忽略父齡也是關鍵。
母親生育年齡已知會造成唐氏症等染色體病變，不過那些疾病的發展過程，與此份研究發現的基因突變不同。
研究以冰島78組子女有自閉症或精神分裂症的父、母、子（女）三人家庭為對象，排序他們的基因組，尋找父母體內並不存在的孩子基因碼，結果發現高達97.1%的新基因突變都與父齡有關，其餘2.9%則是環境因子等隨機影響造成，母齡與突變率「並無關連」。
現今新生兒平均有60種小規模的新基因突變，與父親相關的突變，視父齡不同，從25種到65種不等；與母親相關的突變維持在大約15%，而無論母親年齡為何。
史提凡松說：「傳統觀念將孩子的發育疾病歸咎於母親年齡，（但）我們的研究結果指向隨男性年齡增長，精子遺傳性突變的數量會增加。」
How a Physician Cured Her Son's Autism...
July 31 2011 | 334,451 views
( http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/31/dr-natasha-campbell-mcbride-on-gaps-nutritional-program.aspx )
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride has a full-time medical practice in the United Kingdom where she treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems.
Here, she shares her insights about Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), which can make a child particularly prone to vaccine damage, and the GAPS Nutritional program; a natural treatment for autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression and schizophrenia.
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
I'm thrilled to share this interview with you as Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride presents a truly fascinating and elegant description of the foundational conditions that contribute to autism, along with a pragmatic approach to help circumvent and stem the autism epidemic, which has been a perplexing puzzle for most of us.
Dr. Campbell is a medical doctor with a postgraduate degree in neurology. She worked as a neurologist and a neurosurgeon for several years before starting a family. When her first-born son was diagnosed autistic at the age of three, she was surprised to realize that her own profession had no answers…
Back in 1984, when she graduated from medical school, autism was an exceptionally rare disorder, with a prevalence of about 1 in 10,000.
"By the time I graduated from medical school I had never seen an autistic individual," she says. "… To be honest, the first autistic child that I encountered was my own… Five years ago we were diagnosing one child in 150, which is almost a 40-fold increase in incidence. Now in Britain and some countries, we are diagnosing one child in 66."
The rates are similar in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand as well. She quickly delved into research, looking for an answer for her son, and ended up getting a second postgraduate degree in human nutrition. As a result of her work, her son fully recovered and is no longer autistic.
Although originally from Russia, where she received her medical training, she moved to the UK about 20 years ago, and now has a clinic in Cambridge, England, where she treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems.
Early Treatment is Key
The treatment she developed is simply called the GAPS Nutritional Program, and as Dr. Campbell explains, the younger the child is when you start the treatment, the better the results.
"When we start the GAPS treatment at the age of 2, 3, 4, up to 5, you give your child a real chance to completely recover from autism, from ADHD, ADD, dyslexia and dyspraxia—and that larger group of children who do not fit into any diagnostic box… These are the children with whom doctors usually procrastinate. They ask the parents to bring the child in six months and again in six months to observe the child in order to just give the child a diagnosis and a very precious, very valuable time gets wasted that way while the child could have been helped," she says.
It All Starts in the Gut…
Dr. Campbell is convinced that autistic children are in fact born with perfectly normal brains and perfectly normal sensory organs.
"What happens in these children [is that] they do not develop normal gut flora from birth…" she says. "Gut flora is a hugely important part of our human physiology. Recently research in Scandinavia has demonstrated that 90 percent of all cells and all genetic material in a human body is our own gut flora. We are just a shell… a habitat for this mass of microbes inside us. We ignore them at our own peril.
…As a result, their digestive system—instead of being a source of nourishment for these children—becomes a major source of toxicity. These pathogenic microbes inside their digestive tract damage the integrity of the gut wall. So all sort of toxins and microbes flood into the bloodstream of the child, and get into the brain of the child. That usually happens in the second year of life in children who were breast fed because breastfeeding provides a protection against this abnormal gut flora. In children who were not breastfed, I see the symptoms of autism developing in the first year of life.
So breastfeeding is crucial to protect these children."
Brain Toxicity Leads to Symptoms of Autism
Children use all of their sensory organs to collect information from their environment, which is then passed to the brain for processing. This is a fundamental part of learning.
However, in children with Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), the toxicity flowing from their gut throughout their bodies and into their brains, clogs the brain with toxicity, preventing it from performing its normal function and process sensory information...
"Sensory information turns into this mush; into a noise in the child's brain, and from this noise the child cannot learn. They cannot decipher anything useful," she explains.
"That's why they don't learn how to communicate. They don't learn how to understand language, how to use language, how to develop all the natural instinctive behaviors and coping behaviors that normal children develop. The second year of life is crucial in the maturation of the brain of the baby. That's when communication skills develop and how instinctive behaviors develop and play skills develop in children and coping behaviors develop.
If the child's brain is clogged with toxicity, the child misses that window of opportunity of learning and starts developing autism depending on the mixture of toxins, depending on how severe the whole condition is, and how severely abnormal the gut flora is in the child."
GAPS may manifest as a conglomerate of symptoms that can fit the diagnosis of either autism, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), attention deficit disorder (ADD) without hyperactivity, dyslexia, dyspraxia, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, just to name a few possibilities...
How has Children's Gut Flora Become so Drastically Altered?
If the epidemic of autism and other learning disorders originate in the gut, what has changed in the past 25 years to alter children's gut flora into such an abnormal state?
Dr. Campbell explains:
"As far as science knows, the baby inside the mother's womb during nine months of gestation is sterile. The baby's gut is sterile. The baby acquires its gut flora at the time of birth, when the baby goes through the birth canal of the mother. So whatever lives in mom's birth canal, in mom's vagina, becomes the baby's gut flora.
So what lives in mom's vagina? It's a very richly populated area of a woman's body. The vaginal flora comes from the bowel. So if the mother has abnormal gut flora, she will have abnormal flora in her birth canal. Fathers are not exempt because fathers also have gut flora, and that gut flora populates their groin and they share their groin flora with the mother on a regular basis.
… I always collect health history from the mother, the father, and preferably even grandparents of the child. I find that we have a growing and a deepening epidemic of abnormalities in the gut flora, which began since Second World War when antibiotics were discovered. Every course of broad spectrum antibiotics wipes out the beneficial species of microbes in the gut, which leaves the pathogens in there uncontrolled."
The Massive Importance of Fermented Foods and Probiotics
This is why it's so important to 'reseed' your gut with fermented foods and probiotics when you're taking an antibiotic. If you aren't eating fermented foods, you most likely need to supplement with a probiotic on a regular basis, especially if you're eating a lot of processed foods.
"In parallel with beneficial microbes in the healthy gut, scientists have found thousands of different species of downright pathogenic disease-causing microbes; bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes. But as long as the good ones predominate in your gut, they control all the pathogens… They keep them in small colonies and they don't allow them to proliferate.
Every course of antibiotics tends to wipe out the beneficial bacteria and that gives a window of opportunity for the pathogens to proliferate, to grow uncontrolled, and to occupy new niches in your gut. The beneficial flora recovers, but different species of it take between two weeks to two months to recover in the gut and that's a window of opportunity for various pathogens to overgrow.
What I see in the families of autistic children is that 100 percent of mom's of autistic children have abnormal gut flora and health problems related to that. But then I look at grandmothers on the mother's side, and I find that the grandmothers also have abnormal gut flora, but much milder."
In essence, what we have is a generational build-up of abnormal gut flora, with each generation becoming ever more prone to being further harmed from the use of antibiotics—and vaccines as well, which I'll discuss in a moment.
Bottle-Feeding and Antibiotics Exact a Heavy Toll
Adding injury to insult is the significant decrease in breastfeeding. We now know that breastfed babies develop entirely different gut flora compared to bottle-fed babies. Infant formula never was, and never will be a healthy replacement to breast milk, for a number of reasons; altered gut flora being one of them.
Dr. Campbell discovered that a large percentage of the mothers of autistic children were bottle-fed. Then, as they received many courses of antibiotics throughout their childhood, the abnormalities in their gut flora further deepened.
"Ever since antibiotics were prescribed, particularly from the 50s and 60s, they were prescribed for every cough and sneeze. They really over-prescribed antibiotics. And with every course of antibiotics, the abnormalities in the gut flora would get deeper and deeper in these girls.
And then, at the age of 15, 16, these ladies were put on a contraceptive pill… [which] have a devastating effect on the gut flora. Nowadays ladies are taking it for quite a few years before they're ready to start their family."
So, to recap, bottle-feeding along with over-use of antibiotics and use of the contraceptive pill set the stage for increasingly abnormal gut flora with each passing generation. Then, add to that a diet of processed junk food and excessive consumption of high fructose corn syrup and you have a prescription for disaster in terms of intestinal health.
It's important to realize that processed foods and sugar almost exclusively feed pathogens in your digestive system, allowing them to proliferate.
"Many of these modern factors created a whole plethora of young ladies in our modern world who have quite deeply abnormal gut flora by the time they are ready to have their first child. This is the abnormal gut flora that they are passing through their children," she explains.
"So these babies acquire abnormal gut flora from the start and while the baby is breastfed the baby is receiving protection because whatever is in the mother's blood will be in her milk. Women who have abnormal gut flora would have immune factors in their blood, which they have developed against their own gut flora to protect them. These immune factors will be in their milk.
While the baby is breastfed, despite the fact that the baby has acquired abnormal gut flora from the mom, there will be some protection. But as soon as the breastfeeding stops that protection stops as well. That is the time when the abnormalities in the gut flora really flourish and the child starts sliding down into autism or ADHD or ADD or any other learning disability or physical problems such as diabetes type 1, for example, and celiac disease or other autoimmune conditions, or… asthma, eczema and other physical problems. That's where this epidemic comes from."
Changes are Urgently Needed
Unfortunately, all the factors that create abnormal gut flora are getting increasingly more prevalent, across the globe. This means that the next generation of young women having children will have even worse gut flora than their mothers, so the proportion of GAPS children being born predisposed to develop autism will be even higher!
"Our authorities need to understand that, and they need to be ready for that," Dr. Campbell warns.
The Role of Vaccines
As Dr. Campbell explains, babies are born not only with a sterile gut, but also with immature immune systems. And establishment of normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life plays a crucial role in appropriate maturation of your baby's immune system. Hence, babies who develop abnormal gut flora are left with compromised immune systems.
"Vaccinations have been developed, originally, for children with perfectly healthy immune systems," she says. "GAPS children are NOT fit to be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol."
Her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome contains an entire chapter outlining what health care professionals need to do to improve the vaccination strategy, because the standard vaccination protocol is bound to damage GAPS babies.
"It's a matter of the last straw breaking the camel's back," she explains. "So if the child is damaged enough, the vaccine can provide that last straw. But if it doesn't provide that last straw in a particular child, then it will get the child closer to the breaking point."
She also points out another risk factor of vaccines:
"What we also have to understand is that the pharmaceutical industry cannot patent natural viruses, natural bacteria or any microbe that nature has created. They have to genetically modify them before they can patent them," she says.
"So these vaccines contain genetically modified viruses, genetically modified microbes. We still haven't got enough data to know what exactly they're doing to the human body, and what exactly these genes are doing to our gut flora in these children."
How to Identify GAPS
Fortunately, it is possible to identify GAPS within the first weeks of your baby's life, which can help you make better informed decisions about vaccinations, and about how to proceed to set your child on the path to a healthy life.
One of the KEY issues is to screen all children BEFORE they are immunized, and if they have the metabolic characteristics of GAPS, they should NOT be immunized until that is reversed. This simple measure could prevent unnecessary and tragic trauma in hundreds of thousands of families. In all likelihood there are far more children being harmed by vaccines than being helped at this point. By simply modifying the process one could radically reduce the risk of a child developing an illness on the autism spectrum.
Dr. Campbell describes the entire process in her book.
In her practice, she starts out by collecting a complete health history of the parents, and their gut health is assessed. Then, within the first few days of life, the stool of the child can be analyzed to determine the state of her gut flora, followed by a urine test to check for metabolites, which can give you a picture of the state of your child's immune system.
"Now we have excellent tests that find chemicals produced by various species of microbes in the gut," she says. "… So by analyzing urine, indirectly we can say what kind of species of microbes are sitting in the gut of the child, or what kind of chemicals they are producing."
"… If the child has abnormal gut flora we can assume that the child has a compromised immunity, and these children must not be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol because they simply get damaged by it. They should not be vaccinated."
The non-invasive tests described in her book are now available in most laboratories around the world, and typically run around $80-100 each in the US. This is peanuts compared to the incredible expense of treating an autistic child once the damage is done.
"Our children are being used as a market for selling vaccines," Dr. Campbell says. "The children are vaccinated in our Western world, I'm afraid, not for the sake of saving the child but for the sake of making money… It's an extremely sad and worrying situation."
Siblings are Also at High-Risk for Vaccine Damage
Another group of children that may also over-react to vaccinations are siblings of children with autism, severe hyperactivity, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental conditions, or type 1diabetes.
"Younger siblings of autistic children, and younger siblings of children with all these disabilities should not be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol," she warns.
"The immune tests that I was talking about can be repeated every six months or every year for these children. Whenever the child is considered to be perfectly healthy and the immune system shows itself to be perfectly well functioning, only then can a vaccination be considered for these children because we simply cannot take the risk."
Strategies to Restore Health to Children with GAPS and Autism
Dr. Campbell has developed a very effective treatment for GAP children, called GAPS Nutritional Protocol. It is described in great detail in her book, Gut and Psychology Syndrome, which is designed to be a self-help book.
"[P]robably tens of thousands of people now, around the world, are saving their children with this program," she says. "… The majority of these people just bought the book, read it, followed the program, and got fantastic results."
In summary, the protocol consists of three elements:
1.Diet—the GAPS diet consists of easily-digestible foods that are dense in nutrition, including fermented foods.
According to Dr. Campbell: "On average, people adhere to the diet a couple of years. It takes two years to drive out the pathogenic flora, to reestablish normal flora in the gut, to heal and seal the damaged gut lining in these people and turn the gut back to being a major source of nourishment for the person instead of being a source of toxicity."
2.Food supplements, including: probiotics and vitamins D and A in the form of cod liver oil, although sun exposure is also an important part for GAPS patients, for proper vitamin D production.
3.Detoxification—The GAPS nutritional protocol will naturally clear out most toxins. Dr. Campbell does not use any kind of drugs or chemicals to remove toxins as it can be too drastic for some, and can produce damaging side effects. Instead she recommends juicing as a gentle but effective way of removing toxic build-up, as well as baths with Epsom salt, sea salt, seaweed powder, apple cider vinegar, and baking soda.
Dr. Campbell discusses many additional and priceless details relating to this protocol, so please, set aside some time to listen to the interview in its entirety, or read through the transcript.
More Information
I have always found that the best health strategy is prevention, and I'm sure many would agree. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Now that we've identified a way to help prevent autism and related neurological and physical damage from manifesting, I can't urge you enough to take this information to heart, and to pay close attention to your gut health well before planning your pregnancy, and to take the simple and relatively inexpensive precautions described by Dr. Campbell that can significantly reduce the chances of your child being harmed.
The avalanche of autism must be curbed—and quickly! And for now the burden rests on you, the parent, to take control of your and your child's health, and to arm yourself with information that can have life-altering ramifications.
If you're pregnant, planning a pregnancy, or know someone who is, I can't recommend Dr. Campbell's book enough. Buy it for yourself, or as a gift.
You can also find more information on Dr. Campbell's website: www.GAPS.me, and on her blog at www.doctor-natasha.com.
"We have an absolute epidemic of GAPS – Gut and Psychology Syndrome and Gut and Physiology Syndrome, and the number of sufferers are growing," she says. "I'm completely overwhelmed by demands for consultations, and people all over the world need GAPS practitioners...
So I am preparing a training course for medical practitioners and health practitioners. The first wave of training will be done in September-October in Seattle, Chicago, New York and Dallas.
We will cover the U.S. with a good number of GAPS trained practitioners. This will be people who will be able to take you through the diet, through the whole protocol, and they will run local GAPS groups where all the patients and other GAPS people will be able to come weekly or fortnightly to exchange recipes, exchange news, help each other, give each other moral support and learn more about GAPS."
Once she's done the trainings in the US, she will continue on to Europe and other parts of the world. If you're a doctor, nutritionist, dietician, osteopath, homeopath or other health practitioner and you're interested in becoming a certified GAPS practitioner, please see this link for more information.
Autism Nutrition -- Nutritional & biomedical support for children with autism
Probiotics for Autism
( http://autism-nutrition.com/probiotics-for-autism )
A medical study on probiotics for autism has proven so successful that the study ‘failed’, according to a New Scientist report on September 9, 2006. The study, by Prof Glenn Gibson at Reading University, UK, found that autistic children vastly improved their concentration and behavior when given probiotics, or ‘friendly bacteria’. It involved 40 autistic children, aged 4 to 8, half of whom were given the probiotic bacteria L. Plantanum while the other half received a dummy ‘probiotic’.
probiotics for autism 100It was supposed to have been a blind study, where the participants were not told who were taking the actual probiotics and who were taking placebos or dummy medicine. As part of this probiotics for autism study, parents were asked to record their children’s mood and behavior in a diary. The results were too obvious. Parents whose autistic children were taking the actual probiotics saw such great improvements in their children’s behavior that they knew their children were taking the real thing.
Thus, problems arose during the ‘crossover’ point of this probiotics for autism study, where the two groups were supposed to switch medicines. Many of the parents whose children were taking the actual probiotics refused to make the switch as they wanted their autistic children to continue their improvement. One parent said it was “heartbreaking” to have to stop their child taking it.
“It was really challenging for us and the parents,” said Prof Gibson. “The trial ultimately failed because of the large number of drop-outs.” Due to the high drop-out rate, Prof Gibson was not able to draw any firm, ‘scientific’ conclusion from his probiotics for autism study. Prof Gibson noted, however, that autistic children often suffer bowel conditions and a previous study had found high levels of a “bad” bacteria called clostridia in their gut.
The probiotics for autism study was designed to reduce the levels of clostridia and promote “friendly” bacteria instead, to see what effect this would have. Prof Gibson said the children appeared to show fewer signs of autistic behavior when taking the probiotics supplement, which was given in a powder once a day. “Very subjectively, we asked the parents to fill in diaries about the mood of the children. We got very positive feedback generally,” he said.
Prof Gibson said that certain kinds of clostridia produced neurotoxins, which potentially could be the cause of autism or a contributory factor. However, he said this was speculation. The apparent improvement which the parents observed could also simply be because the children had felt better. “If your gut is not behaving yourself, you feel rough,” Prof Gibson said. The first bacteria in the gut is received from the mother during birth. Later, more bacteria comes from the outside environment, especially from the diet.
By the time a person reaches adulthood, he or she would have about 100 trillion, or 100,000,000,000,000 bacteria in the intestines – which is more than 10 times the number of human cells in the body. Most of the bacteria in the guts are probiotics or “friendly” bacteria but when a person develops an infection, the proportion of harmful bacteria increases. The use of antibiotics destroys both friendly and harmful bacteria. It often causes more harm than good by creating an ‘empty’ environment whereby harmful bacteria, as well as yeast, can multiply more quickly and easily.
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of probiotics as a natural way to restore the balance of friendly bacteria in the guts. This has many benefits including enhanced immunity, but also positive effects on mood and behavior. Many parents of autistic children have reported vast improvements in their children’s behavior with the use of probiotic supplements. We recommend a special, ultra-high potency probiotics supplement specially formulated for children with autism.
洪秀柱聯手謝國樑 守護自閉童
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為了讓民眾更認識自閉兒童（暱稱星兒），立法院副院長洪秀柱和國民黨立委謝國樑攜手拍攝公益短片，號召民眾一起守護星兒。
中華民國自閉症總會今天舉行守護星兒公益短片首播記者會，並邀請協助拍攝短片的洪秀柱、謝國樑出席。洪秀柱和謝國樑也和在場的星兒一起大秀舞技。
洪秀柱表示，這次參與短片拍攝是她在大銀幕的處女秀，與星兒接觸過程中，她也更瞭解星兒，知道星兒不擅言詞、不知如何表達情緒，因此未來更知道如何和星兒互動，她承諾願擔任星兒的守護星。
謝國樑知道星兒要拍公益短片，馬上義不容辭答應參與演出，在後製過程中，還親自為公益短片配音。短片完成後，謝國樑也為公益短片尋找播放通路，希望讓更多民眾接觸到這支短片，傳遞星兒的感受、喚起民眾對星兒的重視。
中華民國自閉症總會表示，透過守護星兒短片，希望讓民眾更瞭解星兒、尊重星兒，為他們營造友善和諧的環境，星兒也親手栽種盆栽，感謝立委的鼎力相助；守護星兒公益短片之後將在秀泰影城、國賓影城、全家超商、麥當勞、高雄捷運等通路陸續播映。
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