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When to Stop ABA Therapy

Identifying when applied behavioral analysis, or ABA therapy, can be useful for children is often a relatively simple task. When a child has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or other developmental disabilities, ABA therapy…
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Symptoms of Asperger’s

Asperger’s syndrome is one developmental disorder that today is wrapped under Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. While it’s technically no longer a separate disorder, there are many people outside the medical and professional fields who still…
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Signs of Autism in Babies

Autism spectrum disorder can’t be diagnosed through a biological test. Instead, it must be done based off certain characteristics that an individual displays in their behaviors. Because of this, many people fail to fully recognize some…
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What is High Functioning Autism?

Autism can be confusing to people who aren’t directly involved in the diagnosis and/or treatment of the disorder. Much of this confusion can be attributed to the fact that autism, and our knowledge of it, has evolved quickly over the last…
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Is Autism Genetic?

With the sharp increase of autism diagnoses in recent years, researchers have sought to find out what the causes of the development disorder are. It’s become well-known that part of the reason why there has been such a spike in diagnoses…