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Autism Symptoms
Main symptoms of autism involve communication, behavior and social difficulties - but when do these appear? and what symptoms are truly caused by autism?
Autism Diagnosis
How do you know if your child is autistic, or not? Learn how medical teams, parents and teachers can help diagnose autism in children, including tests involved.
What is autism?
Start to understand this serious developmental disorder here. We review causes of autism, risk factors for development and other related health conditions
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Clinic Notes: Autism and Seizures
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Approximately 25-30 percent of children with autism have seizures. And often the medications that are used to control the seizures have side effects that make behavior treatments, such as ABA, more di...
Clinic Notes: Acting and Autism
By Gary Brown
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One of the most challenging areas for clinicians who work with children with autism is teaching them to notice social cues in others and modify their behavior accordingly. Most children learn these cu...
Clinic Notes: The Onset of Autism
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Everyone knows by now that the earlier ABA is started for children with autism the better. The problem is there are no biological markers so inferences have to be made from behavior. The categorizatio...
Clinic Notes: Medication and ABA
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The popular press has carried a number of stories recently about the large number of children in our society being over-medicated with psychoactive drugs like Prozac, Ritalin, or Risperdal. These stor...
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Lawsuit aims to stop autism rule change
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The leader of a state autism group has sued a state agency over a rule that forces certified behavior analysts to work under the supervision of a licensed psychologist -- a change that has allegedly devastated the analysts ability ...
Special Learning Congratulates Michele LaMarche on Winning the 2011 Best Practices Award from The Ohio Governor’s ...
Michele LaMarche, BCBA, co-founder of Special Learning, Inc. and Executive Director of Step By Step Academy (SBSA), a highly regarded Autism treatment center in Columbus, Ohio, has been awarded the coveted 2011 Best Practices Award by the Ohio Governor’
Geneticists Develop Promising Mouse Model for Testing New Autism Therapies
CLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches.
Study finds promising drug treatment for improving language, social function in people with autism
Most drug therapy interventions for people with autism have targeted psychiatric problems, including aggression, anxiety and obsessive behavior. Now, University of Missouri researchers are examining the use of propranolol (a drug used to treat high blood
Autistic mice act a lot like human patients
( University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences ) UCLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches. Publ