Living on the Spectrum: Families Touched by Autism
Sep 17, 2015, by Dawn GibsonAutism , Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autism Statistics
Are you one of the families touched by autism? If not, do you know someone who is?
Autism is a spectrum disorder that is characterized by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) as:
- Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts;
- Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior...
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Touched By Autism
Sep 13, 2015, by Dawn GibsonAutism , Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autism Statistics
I will be writing a new blog series on autism. To give some background, I thought I'd begin this series with some posts I wrote several years ago. I wrote the first post in 2007, and the second post in 2013. In the past two and a half years since...
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