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Understanding Treatment Effect Scores in Behavioral Therapy Research
…factors may mean that families in under-funded communities may struggle with limited access to support services. Accordingly, the ability for parents, teachers and clinicians alike to access and interpret scientifically…
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Autism Treatment: Addressing the Changes and Challenges
…support. Additionally, DSM-5 also introduced the diagnosis of social pragmatic communication disorder, which is given to children who experience difficulties in social communication and interactions, but who do not display…
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NIH Study Finds Attention to Others’ Eyes Declines in 2 to 6-Month-Old Infants Later Diagnosed with Autism
…visit the NIMH website www.nimh.nih.gov. About the National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIH, the nation’s medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S….
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Mount Sinai Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Promising Treatment for Autism Subtype
…of IGF-1 in children with this severe type of autism. IGF-1 is a commercially-available compound for growth deficiency that is known to promote nerve cell survival as well as synaptic…
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Empowering Parents: Caregiver Support for Youth and Adolescents with ASD
…activity as it is completed to assist the individual in understanding what will be next as well as to support awareness that the parent will soon be home. (b) In…
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Executive Functioning Enhancement for High School Students with ASD
…as they prepare for the transition to postsecondary environments. Through understanding the significant role played by executive skills in our lives and by exploring opportunities to build competence in this…
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Finding the Best Fit: Exploring College and Vocational Options
…www.pace.edu/school-of-education/centers/center-for-teaching-and-research-in-autism-1/the-oasis-program-formerly-the-boss-program. Evan Oppenheimer, LMHC, is Coordinator and Licensed Mental Health Counselor at the Jewish Child Care Association’s Compass Project. For more information, please visit www.jccany.org/compass. References VanBergeijk, E., Klin, A….
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A Review of a Randomized Control Trial of DIR/Floortime Therapy
…compliance, initiation of joint attention and enjoyment in interaction). Improvement was significantly greater on these items than those made by the community group, except in the domain of compliance. In…
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Walking the Safety Tightrope: The Intersection of Law Enforcement and Loved Ones with Disability
…7 times more likely to happen compared to the general population. For those empowered to serve and protect the safety of all citizens in the community, often times law enforcement…
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Accessing and Understanding Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Benefits
…over the phone. Or, you can go to the web site www.ssa.gov where you will find a lot of information that has been designed to be easy to understand. You…
