Raising Awareness About Autism and Empowering Individuals with Autism

Memory awareness for faces in individuals with autism.

Little is known regarding metacognition in individuals with autism. Specifically, it is unclear how individuals with autism think about their own mental states. The current study assessed memory awareness during a facial recognition task. High-functioning children (M = 13.1 years, n = 18) and adults (M = 27.5 years, n = 16) with autism matched with typically developing children (M = 14.3 years,...

Raising awareness about sleep disorders

Sleep disorders affect a substantial number of people worldwide and may be increasing in prevalence. Unfortunately, many of these disorders can go unrecognized and untreated in clinical practice. Although physicians understand that good sleep is essential to patient health, approaching the issue is often glossed over in the primary care setting. Importantly, recent data also suggest that sleep ...

Autism--Need for Awareness.

A is a neuro-developmental disorder characterized by qualitative abnormalities in social interactions, markedly aberrant communication skills, and restricted repetit ive behaviors, interests, and activit ies. Diagnostic criteria Under DSM-IV-TR require that symptoms become apparent before the child is 3 year old. However, autism is not a single disorder, but a spectrum of c losely related disor...

Autism Awareness Month and World Autism Day — April 2013

Empowering Families in the Treatment of Autism