They believe that once you’ve interacted with an autistic child, you’ve interacted with an autistic child forever. And that adage is true, for better or worse. An autistic child’s symptoms may not be visible to the untrained eye. Young people with autism don’t appear any different than anyone else. Autistic children might range from being […]
Archive for:
Category: Health & Autism
According to a director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry, Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele, MD, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by the difficulties it causes with social interaction, language skills, and nonverbal communication; repetitive behavioral patterns; and the display of unusual and highly specific strengths and differences compared with other people. […]