We would like to pay tribute to Dr. O. Ivar Lovaas, an esteemed pioneer in the development of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Dr. Lovaas passed away on August 2. He will be remembered for his dedication to helping children and families in the autism community.
OASIS @ MAAP and its parent organization, MAAP Services for Autism and Asperger Syndrome are launching a fundraising campaign for 2010 and 2011.
We may think it only affects boys. But the female variant is often much harder to spot – and that means thousands of girls may be going undiagnosed. Jeremy Laurance reports
Correlation between maternal and paternal age and risk of autism.
A team of experts in the field of psychiatry are revising the old DSMIV-tr. Much consideration is being given to moving the diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome out of the autism category.