Recently, play therapy has been refined and targeted to a variety of different disorders,
from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Successfully helped a child with special needs who was also a problem child, to overcome his learning disability and become integrated into a regular school curriculum • Correctly diagnosed a special child as being autistic after years of her being labeled as simply «retarded» • Effectively designed a series of special needs teaching programs to help children suffering
from autism spectrum disorder • Wrote a book about the needs of special children, Our Special Children, that addressed children with needs that were hard to diagnose
I am also interested in learning about renewable energies, such as how to improve the storage capacity of solar heat, and revolutionary new methods to assist children, adolescents and adults who suffer
from autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Children's Aid Society had prior involvement in the family and the child at the heart of the dispute suffered
from Autism Spectrum Disorder and developmental delays.
He is experienced in representing clients suffering
from autism spectrum disorder and mental health disorders including paranoid schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder.
«Pets can also assist in the treatment of a broad range of conditions
from autism spectrum disorder to Alzheimer's disease to post-traumatic stress.»
Not exact matches
One in 34 children in that state, or 3 percent, fall on what's called the
autism spectrum, which encompasses a range of social, behavioral and learning
disorders ranging
from the barely noticeable to the profoundly debilitating.
Katherine Bale, who has
autism spectrum disorder, gives her view
from... More
Autism is a
spectrum disorder which can range
from very mild to severe symptoms and occurs in all ethnic, socioeconomic, and age groups.
In their research, Grandjean and Landrigan identified twelve toxins
from everyday life that they believe to cause ADD, in addition to
autism spectrum disorders and lowered IQs.
* Designed for children on the
Autism Spectrum and with sensory processing
disorders, the Social Narrative is an appropriate resource for all children curious about what to expect
from a typical camp day.
Developed by our education staff and designed for children on the
Autism Spectrum and with sensory processing
disorders, the Social Narrative is an appropriate resource for all children curious about what to expect
from a typical visit to the Nature Museum.
Pittsburgh - area camps for children on the
autism spectrum range
from day camps like Quest Camp or The Woodlands Foundation's one - week overnight camp, both exclusively for children with special needs, to Camp WISP, The Watson Institute's «Watson Inclusive Summer Program,» which integrates kids with social
disorders into mainstream day camp programs throughout the region.
This video
from the Kennedy Krieger Institute, in Baltimore, features three children who show early signs of
autism spectrum disorder playing with toys and interacting and communicating with others.
Recently, researchers
from Harvard and Mt Sinai found that both environmental chemicals and environmental stress can disrupt the development of a fetus» brain and negatively impact the baby's long - term health, even increasing the risk of
autism spectrum disorders.
Improving maternal mental health after a child's diagnosis of
autism spectrum disorder: results
from a randomized clinical trial.
New research
from the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) identifies a potential biomarker that predicts atypical development in 1 - to 2 - month - old infants at high versus low familial risk for developing
autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
A Question of Focus The subtitle of Page's memoir is Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's, and indeed Page didn't learn until age 45 that he suffers
from what is called
autism spectrum disorder, or ASD.
The study, which appears in Biological Psychiatry, suggests that social impairments characteristic of
autism spectrum disorder may stem
from alteration of activity in this circuit, and that tuning this circuit may help treat the social deficits in the
disorder.
Children born to mothers with polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, are at an increased risk of developing
autism spectrum disorders, according to a new epidemiological study
from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.
Costs for a lifetime of support for each individual with
autism spectrum disorder may reach $ 2.4 million, according to a new study
from researchers
from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Interestingly, the authors noted that since the study showed that microbiota in the gut can influence the brain, it «adds to evidence suggesting that the intestinal microbiota may play some role in the
spectrum of brain
disorders ranging
from mood or anxiety to other problems that may include
autism, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.»
First, an analysis of genomic data
from 6,000 patients with
autism spectrum disorders, 1,000 patients with bipolar
disorder, and 2,500 patients with schizophrenia by co-first author Pierre - Marie Martin, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Cheyette's lab, revealed that disruptive mutations in the main neuronal form of DIXDC1 were present about 80 percent more often in psychiatric patients (0.9 percent had mutations) compared to healthy controls (0.5 percent had mutations).
Researchers presenting the study abstract, «National Trends in Prevalence and Co-morbid Chronic Conditions among Children with Asthma,
Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder,» looked at data
from the National Survey of Children's Health data for 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2012 to spot trends surrounding these conditions by sociodemographic characteristics in the United States.
Researchers, including a team
from Children's National Health System, have identified head circumference and head tilting reflex as two reliable biomarkers in the identification of
autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children that are between 9 and 12 months of age.
A study to be published in the April 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that eye tracking can differentiate children with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
from children without ASD but with other developmental problems (non-ASD).
Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised eyebrows, and concern among current and prospective parents, with a report documenting that the rate of
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis in the United States jumped 30 % between 2008 and 2010,
from one in 88 to one in 68 children.
A new study
from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) finds one in three adolescents with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) acquires an intermediate driver's license, and the majority does so in their 17th year.
Autism spectrum disorder is a group of neurological dysfunctions ranging
from hyperactivity to Asperger's syndrome, resulting in challenges in thinking, talking, recognizing and expressing emotion, and social interactions.
In the United States, the diagnosis of
autism spectrum disorders has increased about tenfold over the past two decades, and a 2003 report by the Centers for Disease Control suggests that as many as one in every 166 children is now on the
autism spectrum, while another one in six suffers
from a neurodevelopmental delay.
The authors are currently applying this work to assess whether this form of attitude alignment may differ in people suffering
from neuropsychiatric conditions, such as
autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia.
Many children with
Autism Spectrum Disorder face increased risk of injury when they wander away
from adults who care for them.
Scientists at UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute spearheaded the project, screening 29,000 articles about
autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to locate the soundest research on interventions for children
from birth to age 22.
By age 3, some of the children — nearly all
from the high risk group — had received a clinical diagnosis of an
autism spectrum disorder.
«This is the latest of a series of abstracts to emerge
from the US about alleged environmental triggers for
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Sep. 4, 2014 — Vanderbilt University researchers have received multi-year grants
from two private foundations to investigate key signaling proteins that could lead to novel treatments for
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and dystonia, a movement
disorder.
«It might be difficult to imagine why the large number of gene variants that together give rise to traits like [
autism spectrum disorder] are retained in human populations,» co-author and genetics and neuroscience professor Joel Gelernter said in a statement
from Yale University.
Multisensory speech perception in
autism spectrum disorder:
From phoneme to whole - word perception.
LA JOLLA, CA — People with Williams syndrome — known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers — process spoken language differently
from people with
autism spectrum disorders — characterized by social withdrawal and isolation — found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Longitudinal development of manual motor ability in
autism spectrum disorder from childhood to mid-adulthood relates to adaptive daily living skills Travers BG, Bigler ED, Duffield TC, Prigge MDB, Froehlich AL, Lange N, Alexander AL, Lainhart JE.
In concordance with these results, MECP2 gene duplications have been reported in both men and women that suffer
from autism -
spectrum disorders.
Research Interests: Molecular control of cell fate
from stemness to differentiated skeletal and neuronal cell types; SOX transcription factors; skeletal malformation and degeneration diseases; intellectual disability and
autism spectrum disorders; mouse genetic models; human pluripotent stem cell differentiation models in vitro
Kaplan - Meier Plots of Time
From Birth to an
Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Children of Vaccinated Women Compared With Children of Unvaccinated Women
The only way to answer questions related to the fundamental genetic and neuropathological aspects of
autism spectrum disorder is to study brain tissue
from individuals with
autism spectrum disorder.
Autism spectrum disorders are defined by ASD diagnoses (autistic
disorder, Asperger
disorder, and pervasive development
disorder, not otherwise specified [International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes 299.0, 299.8, 299.9, respectively]-RRB- recorded in KPNC's pediatric electronic medical records on at least 2 occasions
from birth through June 30, 2015.
There is increasing evidence that children with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have age - related differences
from controls in cortical volume (CV).
Drs. Ben Philpot, Mark Zylka, and Bryan Roth have been awarded a $ 1,050,000 grant
from the Simons Foundation to identify drug - like compounds for the treatment of
autism spectrum disorders.
Results
from research reveals that oxytocin, a substance made naturally in the brain as well as through the entire body, enhanced brain function in areas which have been identified as processing social information in kids having
autism spectrum disorders.
The study used survey data
from parents to record the success of a gluten and casein free diet on kids with
autism spectrum disorder.
The researchers discovered that those parents who removed all gluten and casein
from their kid's diets noted that more of their kid's
autism spectrum disorder behaviors, social behaviors and physiological symptoms improved after starting the diet in comparison to kids whose parents didn't do away with all gluten and casein.