The West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities (CED) is launching the Mind the Gap: Parent Education and Support Group to offer guidance and support for families who have a child on a wait list for autism evaluations or services. Parents who are concerned their child is ...
University of Kansas has held its research-based Girls Night Out (GNO) program since 2008, providing vital life skills to girls and women with developmental disabilities for nearly two decades. Upon attending a training event for the program, Molly Abitbol quickly recognized its potential ...
Here is why autism diagnostic tests leave females behind by Aspen Matis When I was 10, sitting around a picnic table with a bunch of girls from camp, I made a mistake. They were laughing, all making fun of Linda, one of our counselors. Though I didn’t get the jokes, I mimicked ...
You don’t know, until you do. Your kid, we mean. He never cooed as an infant and he never laughed as a toddler. He wouldn’t make eye contact — and you could forget all those Fisher-Price toys with their flashing lights, clangs and peek-a-boo slapstick. No tolerance for that ...
MORGANTOWN -- Characterizing an autism patient’s behavior can be challenging, but West Virginia University researchers aim to make identification easier by conducting the first systematic study toward autism spectrum disorder phenotyping using behavior-tracking technology. Phenotyping is ...
by Lauren Lindsey The COVID-19 pandemic has required the vast majority of us to wear masks. This has predictably become a major source of civic contention: You might be judged a homicidal moron if you refuse, or another type of moron who likes government control if you go ...