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Tips on Advocating for Your Child’s Education
…the right under the Federal Special Education Law, IDEIA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, commonly referred to as IDEA, as it was called prior to 2004), to…
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Using Evidence-Based Practices to Help Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Improve Their Writing Skills
…teach one at a time (Wong et al., 2014). Writing is a complex task that requires a person to plan, draft, revise and edit in order to produce a complete…
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Growth Hormone Treatment Improves Social Impairments in Patients with Genetic Disorder Known to Cause Autism
…is a commercially available compound that promotes nerve cell survival, synaptic maturation and synaptic plasticity, the ability of synapses to strengthen or weaken over time, in response to increases or…
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Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: An Effective Approach for Schools to Prevent and Manage Challenging Behaviors
…specific “code of conduct” which is usually developed around a school mascot or theme. Student behavior is evaluated based upon the school’s clear expectations. For example, “Responsibility” is a common…
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Addressing Setting Events to Make Behavior Plans More Effective for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
…in understanding what influences the motivation and/or meaning of the behavior for the person the individual (Wacker et al., 1990). The value of this approach is that researchers have come…
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Building Comprehensive, ABA-Informed Services in an Adult Residential Setting
…challenges not seen in the school setting. However, in 2011 Services for the Underserved Inc. (SUS) committed to taking on this challenge, and many of the individuals we serve have…
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Changes in Scores of Genes Contribute to Autism Risk
…are blunt, causing the resultant protein to stop working, missense mutations may make a protein work slightly less well. Being more common and subtle, they are harder to spot, but…
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Evaluating the Ability of Learners with Autism to Work in Small Groups
…and community settings. In our clinical work at Melmark, we have found that this issue is a challenging one for educational teams. Often, there are diverse opinions about a student’s…
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The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation Announces Groundbreaking Initiatives at Yale School of Medicine and University of Miami CARD
…establish the nation’s first-ever research fund specifically dedicated to study adults and how aging impacts autism. The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation Adult Autism Research Fund will be led by Roger…
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President Obama Signs ABLE Act
…Trust program. This article was reprinted with permission by National Disability Institute and can be found online at www.realeconomicimpact.org/News.aspx?id=460. About National Disability Institute National Disability Institute (NDI) is a…
