What Do You Do When Relatives Don’t Believe the Diagnosis and Question Your Parenting?

• By: Robin H. Morris
• October 1st, 2011
• diagnosis, family members, parents, relatives
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“Give him time.” “She’s the last child born in the family; everyone does the talking for her.” “Your expectations are too high, every child has his/her own timetable.” “Don’t put him under a microscope. Relax and he will be fine.” “When I had my kids, the world was...

The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R)

• By: Edward R. Ritvo, MD Riva Ariella Ritvo, PhD Max Ritvo
• July 1st, 2011
• assessment, diagnosis, diagnostic scale
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A Scale to Assist the Diagnosis of Autistic Disorder in Adults 18 Years and Older The RAADS-R is an eighty item scale specifically designed to assist clinicians diagnosing Autistic Disorder (AD) in adults eighteen years and older. It contains a total of eighty questions. Sixty-four short...