AutismParents.NET Newsvine Feed(from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
Broken promises in a bottle is not a lyric in a country song, but it could be a title to a bad country song that five year old Janie hears three or four times a week. Janie’s mom is an alcoholic and former recreational drug user who has lost custody of […]
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(from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
When I have a new child come into the clinic, and I am taking a history, I ask the parents if anyone else in the family has an autism diagnosis. The answer is almost always no. But often, after weeks of therapy, one or both parents, after having learned more about […]
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(from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
When I have a new child come into the clinic, and I am taking a history, I ask the parents if anyone else in the family has an autism diagnosis. The answer is almost always no. But often, after weeks of therapy, one or both parents, after having learned more about […]
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(from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
A recent study in the journal Pediatrics reports that high fever decreases the symptoms of autism. Many parents have already observed this relationship, but this is the first study that documents the effect. Clinicians have also documented this effect. In 1980, a viral epidemic causing high fever hit Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital […]
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(from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
This week the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that all children be screened for autism at 18 months of age and again at 24 months. No doubt early interventions by Speech-Language Pathologists, Psychologists, ABA Therapists, and other professionals will better lives for children with autism. At least that’s the theory. But […]
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(from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the most popular and effective therapy for autism. However, ABA also has it critics who say it is too rigid and creates kids who are robotic. (I have been working in ABA for nearly 40 years and have yet to see ABA produce a robotic child.) […]
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Dr. Brown’s Clinic Notes: Anorexia and Autism (from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
Kids with autism are often finicky eaters, rejecting foods on both taste and/or texture. The consensus is that this is just another one of those sensory issues which plague kids with autism. But now an interesting hypothesis carries the finicky eating problem one step […]
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This week, Dr. Brown blogged about “Clinic Notes: Girls with Autism and ABA“.
‘Boys are three to four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls. Last week I saw 35 children in my clinic with an autism diagnosis. Only 7 were girls. Not only is autism diagnosed less frequently in girls, it seems […]
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