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What Is Autism?: Facts and Stats
1 in 150 births(1) 1 to 1.5 million Americans(2) Fastest-growing developmental disability 10 - 17 % annual ...
Source: Autism Society
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Autism’s Impact May Extend to Younger Siblings
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center researchers are reporting that younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders do ...
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Growing Up Together: Teens With Autism
When you’re a teenager you find your unique identity and figure out your relationship to the world and to others. ...
Source: Autism Society
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On the Road to Adulthood: You've Gotta Be a Social Thinker
By now you are an older teen or young adult and you’ve started to consider what you want to do with the rest of ...
Source: Autism Society
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Social Cognition: What Is It and What Does It Tell Us About How to Teach?
Understanding how a person learns is essential to understanding how to teach. If a math teacher asks a student to ...
Source: Autism Society
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Characteristics of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
As we look at some of the most commonly observed characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorders, remember ...
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Teaching Flexibility for the Autistic Child
It's a well-known fact that children with autism often have difficulty with change in routine or unexpected events. ...
Source: Education.com
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Characteristics of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Although autism is like most of the other low-incidence disabilities in that it can exist in many variations, from mild ...
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Autism Fact Sheet
What is autism? Autism (sometimes called “classical autism”) is the most common condition in a group of ...
Source: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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Developing Social Skills Programming: Changing Barriers into Strategies and Tactics
People with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) frequently exhibit social skill problems that impact their imediate quality ...
Source: Autism Society
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The Promise of ABA: Creating Meaningful Lives Throughout Adolescence and Adulthood
The past decade has seen dramatic reports citing the increase in the prevalence of autism and related disorders. From ...
Source: Autism Society
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Visual Schedules: How and Why to Use Them in the Classroom
Recently, a flustered colleague arrived at a scheduled meeting more than 30 minutes late. This was out of character for ...
Source: Autism Society
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Social and Emotional Development in Children with Autism
According to the National Research Council (2001), children with autism have major difficulties in both their social ...
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Diagnosing Autism: One Family's Story
Over the last 15 years, autism has gone from being a little known condition, to a disorder of epidemic proportions. The ...
Source: Education.com
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FAQ Sheet About Students with Autistic Spectrum Disabilities (ASD)
Autistic Spectrum Disabilities (ASD), also known as Pervasive Developmental Disabilities (PDD), are among the most ...
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Ten Tips for Helping Your Autistic Child Connect
Autism confounds: it's difficult to pin down why it happens, it manifests itself differently in each person, and it's...
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Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention: Addressing Behavior Excesses and Deficits in Young Children with ASD
Background Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) was pioneered by Dr. Ivar Lovaas and colleagues in the...
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Autism and Autistic Spectrum Disorders
There is increasing evidence that the lack of a theory of mind may be involved in the serious disorder known as autism....
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Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Table of Contents Ryan's Story What is Autism/PDD? How Common is Autism/PDD? What are the Signs of Autism/PDD? What...
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Defining Autism
Autism is a spectrum disorder, and although it is defined by a certain set of behaviors, children and adults with autism...
Source: Autism Society
