Autism

How common are Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)?
by CDC
What is the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)? How many children in the United States have an ASD? How do the rates of ASDs compare with other childhood disabilities?

Autism: What are the Symptoms?
by CDC
As the name autism spectrum disorder says, ASDs cover a wide range of behaviors and abilities. People who have ASDs, like all people, differ greatly in the way they act and what they can do. No two people with ASDs will have the same symptoms.

Research into Causes and Treatment of Autism
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Research into the causes of autism spectrum disorders is being fueled by other recent developments. Evidence points to genetic factors playing a prominent role in the causes for ASD.

Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Medications are often used to treat behavioral problems, such as aggression, self-injurious behavior, and severe tantrums, that keep the person with ASD from functioning more effectively at home or school.

Autism: Medications Used in Treatment
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Medications are often used to treat behavioral problems, such as aggression, self-injurious behavior, and severe tantrums, that keep the person with ASD from functioning more effectively at home or school.

Autism: Treatment Options
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
When your child has been evaluated and diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, you may feel inadequate to help your child develop to the fullest extent of his or her ability.

The Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Although there are many concerns about labeling a young child with an ASD, the earlier the diagnosis of ASD is made, the earlier needed interventions can begin.

Autism Spectrum Disorders
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Not until the middle of the twentieth century was there a name for a disorder that now appears to affect an estimated 3.4 every 1,000 children ages 3-10, a disorder that causes disruption in families and unfulfilled lives for many children.

Diagnosis. What Is Autism Anyway?
Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope That Can Transform a Child's Life
by Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D., Claire LaZebnik
Autism is one of the most alarming diagnoses a parent can hear. Every parent has hopes and dreams for her child, and often these can be shattered when the child gets diagnosed with autism.

Different Levels, Different Needs
Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope That Can Transform a Child's Life
by Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D., Claire LaZebnik
We're also aware that children with autism fall in very different places along the spectrum of the disability. Because our approach is geared toward an individual child's needs, it's appropriate for use with children of all different levels and skills.

Autism
Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope That Can Transform a Child's Life
by Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D., Claire LaZebnik
There are few things in life scarier than having a child diagnosed with any kind of special need, and autism is one of the scariest disabilities, because the diagnosis tells you nothing about a child's prognosis.

Part One
Daniel Isn't Talking
by Marti Leimbach
My husband saw me at a party and decided he wanted to marry me. That is what he says. I was doing an impression of myself on the back of a motorcycle with my university sweetheart, a young man who loved T. S. Eliot and Harley-Davidsons

Balloon Days
Elijah's Cup
by Valerie Paradiz
Because of death or in spite of death — I don't know which — Elijah and I learned about expansion. These were our balloon days, when both of us had grief for lost relations. Temporarily, Elijah had lost me, and I had lost my three dead ones.

My Story
Animals in Translation : Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D., Catherine Johnson, Ph.D.
People who aren't autistic always ask me about the moment I realized I could understand the way animals think. They think I must have had an epiphany. But it wasn't like that.

Thinking in Pictures: Autism and Visual Thought
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
I think in pictures. Words are like a second language to me. I translate both spoken and written words into full-color movies, complete with sound, which run like a VCR tape in my head.

Hurricanes and Land Mines
Through the Glass Wall : A Therapist's Lifelong Journey to Reach the Children of Autism
by Howard Buten, Ph.D.
I work with the autistic, in France. I founded an institution there, a day clinic dedicated to the treatment of extreme cases. I have always been most interested in extreme cases. When I was a child I wanted to be a doctor-I didn't want to become a doctor

The Diagnosis
Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder : A Mother's Story of Research & Recovery
by Karyn Seroussi
A severe language delay is almost never diagnosed in a child under two, and autism is tricky-sometimes there are a few words and normal developmental milestones in the beginning and it's hard to notice when they disappear or don't increase.