In an effort to update the Autism Spectrum Diagnosis in the DSM-IV, the members of the American Psychiatric Association’s Neuro-development Disorders Work-group are spearheading the change to remove the term “Aspergers” from its manual. The work-group reasoned that by not and referring to Aspergers as part of the autism spectrum disorder will help focus the ...…
Children diagnosed with Autism have many gifts that can be shaped to support them into adulthood. For some Autistic Children, these gifts are easy to see. For others, the gifts are harder to find. Working with young children and even teenagers is a prime time to begin to think about what are the children fascinated ...…
I was just reading an interview with the author of a new book called…
National Autism Awareness Month caused me to reflect upon my first real encounter with individuals that I knew had autism. (In other words, they actually had a diagnosis–I’m sure I had known several individuals on the autism spectrum that didn’t have a diagnosis.) I got a job as a supervisor of a group home with ...…