Q&A with Renowned Autism Expert Dr. Catherine Lord – Identifying Children with ASD and Finding Services After Diagnosis

• By: Catherine Lord, PhD Center for Autism and the Developing Brain
• October 1st, 2012
• autism evaluation, autism services, autism signs, child development, developmental assessment, early diagnosis, early intervention, treatment
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Renowned autism expert Dr. Catherine Lord is the Director of NYP’s Center for Autism and the Developing Brain (CADB). Opening in early 2013, CADB will be the region’s most comprehensive center for diagnosing and treating patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Dr. Lord shared some of her...

Some Thoughts on Early Diagnosis and Effective Treatment of ASD

• By: Marion K. Salomon, PhD Marion K. Salomon & Associates, Inc.
• October 1st, 2012
• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), autism evaluation, developmental assessment, diagnosis, early diagnosis, early intervention, toddlers, treatment
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I am the director of an Early Intervention agency and until recently was its primary Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) evaluator. I am a bilingual child psychologist and have been diagnosing and ruling out ASD in children below age three for several decades. We’ve seen ever-earlier diagnosis (down...