It’s common knowledge that diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have increased, now affecting one in 31 children and one in 45 adults. Yet, what’s talked about less frequently is the impact ...

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On April 16, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made some scientifically unfounded comments about the cause of autism, calling rising autism rates an epidemic. He went on to ...

The number of children diagnosed with developmental disabilities is on the rise, specifically attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum ...

Solution-focused therapy (SFT) strategies and techniques can be helpful when working with neurodivergent people, including people diagnosed with Autism. In addition to solution-focused one-on-one work ...

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Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children.