Category Archives: Autism
Waco Facility to Offer Services to Kids with Developmental Disabilities
According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, Baylor University and McLane Children’s Scott & White are collaborating on a new facility that will attempt to mix diagnostic, therapeutic and clinical services for kids with developmental disabilities. The paper reported that the facility, the Baylor University Center for Developmental Disabilities, would offer services to children with autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome, as well as other intellectual disabilities. The facility will be located at the Hillcrest MacArthur Clinic, located at 2201 MacArthur Drive in Waco. The unveiling of the facility was made as Autism Awareness Month kicked off earlier this month. The center will offer individual therapy rooms, a playroom area, small rooms for social skills work groups and a group therapy room. “[The facility] will include the Baylor Autism Resource Clinic, which provides assessments, consultations, social skills-building exercises and other support services for children with autism spectrum disorders,” the Tribune-Herald reported. “It…
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Does Your Child Suffer From Autism? Rates Have Shot Up By Nearly 30 Percent
According to USA Today, autism rates increased by nearly 30 percent between 2008 and 2010, and have more than doubled since the turn of the century. The news comes from a study done by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is now believed that autism affects one out of every 68 eight-year-old children, up from 88 children just two years ago. “We don’t know the extent those factors explain in terms of the increase, but we clearly know they do play a role,” Coleen Boyle, director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the CDC told USA Today. “Our system tells us what’s going on. It (only) gives us clues as to the why.” The study also showed that African American autism rates were lower than that of white and Hispanic races. It also showed that boys were five times more likely to…
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Autism Diagnoses May Decrease Under Changes to Criteria
According to DisabilityScoop.com, the number of people diagnosed with autism could decrease by nearly one-third under new criteria for diagnosing the developmental disorder. The website reported that a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM-5, introduced extensive changes to the criteria for an autism diagnosis. The website reported that the changes include the deletion of “Asperger’s syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified, instead establishing an umbrella classification of ‘autism spectrum disorder’ with clinicians indicating a level of severity.” A new study by the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders has some experts worried that people who previously qualified for a diagnosis on the autism spectrum will be left out, due to the changes. According to DisabilityScoop, researchers with the journal found that 31 percent of those who met the diagnostic criteria for autism under the old DSM…
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