Understanding and Mitigating Challenges Faced by the Healthcare System when Treating Children with ASD and Problem Behavior

• By: Alexis Pavlov, PhD, BCBA-D Colin Muething, PhD, BCBA-D Marcus Autism Center
• July 1st, 2020
• behavioral interventions, COVID-19, crisis management, elopement, emergency, healthcare, medical care, problem behaviors, summer 2020 issue, training
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Meeting the healthcare needs of the heterogeneous population of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) poses a unique set of difficulties for an already burdened healthcare system during a pandemic such as the current COVID-19 crisis. Children with ASD experience the same childhood illnesses...

Inhibition of Eye Blinking Reveals How Toddlers with ASD Attend Differently to What They Watch

• By: Sarah Shultz Warren Jones, PhD Ami Klin, PhD Marcus Autism Center
• January 1st, 2012
• attention, blinking, eye gaze, research, toddlers
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One of the central goals in autism research is to better meet the needs and experiences of individual children on the autism spectrum, even and especially children who may not be able to easily communicate those experiences. Researchers hope that doing so will provide an inroad into helping those...