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Expert Opinion
8.9.2013
Teen with Autism Needs Help with Hygiene & Appropriate Behavior
How can we help our teenage daughter improve her hygiene and understand the difference between public versus private behavior?
Expert Opinion
8.2.2013
Family in Remote Area Seeks Autism Treatment Guidance
Click here to see how Lauren Elder answers a question about helping a child with autism when there is not access to intensive early intervention
Expert Opinion
7.19.2013
How Long Should We Try This Behavioral Medication?
“We’ve started our child on medication for some very challenging autism-related behaviors. If we’re not seeing change, how long do we keep using it?”
Expert Opinion
7.12.2013
Guidance on Autism Genetic Testing for Younger Sibling of Child with ASD
Should you consider autism genetic testing for younger siblings of a child with ASD? Click here to see how Kandamurugu Manickam, M.D. answers this
Science News
7.3.2013
Study: Kids with Autism Have Fewer Kinds of Gut Bacteria
Researchers link reduced diversity of gut “microbiome” to autism, but not to severity of GI problems
Expert Opinion
6.14.2013
Can exercise improve behavior? Help encouraging a child who has autism
Can exercise improve our son's autism-related problem behaviors? What can we do to increase his activity?
Expert Opinion
6.13.2013
Helping Families Safely Manage Behavioral Medicines
The author of our newest AS-ATN/AIR-P tool kit describes how it grew from the needs and desires of families.
Expert Opinion
5.31.2013
How can we help our daughter transition to college?
How can we help our daughter, who has autism, transition to college? In high school, she's in a special classroom and receives 20 hours of additional
Science News
5.1.2013
Speech Devices Can Help Build Language in Schoolchildren with Autism
Despite intensive early therapy, around a third of children with autism speak few words when they enter school. Once experts believed that if children
Expert Opinion
4.26.2013
Autism and puberty aggression
Click here to see how Cassandra R. Newsom, PsyD and Cora M. Taylor, PhD answer a question from a mother about autism and puberty aggression.
Expert Opinion
3.19.2013
Teaching nonverbal autistic children to talk
Will your nonverbal child with autism ever speak? Research suggests that nonverbal children on the spectrum may eventually develop language.
Expert Opinion
3.8.2013
Horseback Riding as Autism Therapy
Click here to read Alicia Kershaw, founder and executive director of GallopNYC, response to a question about equine therapy and if horseback riding
Science News
3.4.2013
Study shows that many nonverbal autistic children overcome severe language delays
Will my nonverbal autistic child ever speak? Hopeful news for families of children with nonverbal autism.
Expert Opinion
3.1.2013
Behavioral Medication Side Effects
Click here to see how Christopher McDougle, MD answers a question about meds for autism and earn about side effects of risperidone and aripiprazole,
Expert Opinion
2.8.2013
Finding Information on Autism-Related Genes
Click here to read about the relationship between autism and genetic changes and to get resources on common genetic disorders related to autism.
Expert Opinion
1.25.2013