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    accommodation include Autism Network International, Autism National Committee, ASAN, and Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network. Autism is classified by psychologists...
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  • Autism Speaks Inc. is an American non-profit autism awareness organization and the largest autism research organization in the United States. It sponsors...
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    Diagnoses of autism have become more frequent since the 1980s, which has led to various controversies about both the cause of autism and the nature of...
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  • The history of autism spans over a century; autism has been subject to varying treatments, being pathologized or being viewed as a beneficial part of...
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    Several national and international disability rights groups have spoken against the use of aversive therapies, including TASH and the Autism National Committee...
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  • vaccines and autism has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise, and that vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. Vaccinologist...
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  • Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by symptoms of deficient...
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    Autism therapies include a wide variety of therapies that help people with autism, or their families. Such methods of therapy seek to aid autistic people...
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    World Autism Awareness Day is an internationally recognized day annually on 2 April, encouraging Member States of the United Nations to take measures to...
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    of autism, including environmental and genetic factors, have been recognized or proposed, but understanding of the theory of causation of autism is incomplete...
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  • The diagnosis of autism is based on a person's reported and directly observed behavior. There are no known biomarkers for autism spectrum conditions that...
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    Classic autism, also known as childhood autism, autistic disorder, (early) infantile autism, infantile psychosis, Kanner's autism, Kanner's syndrome,...
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  • Gerald Gasson, a parent and member of the executive committee, designed the primary symbol for autism: a puzzle piece with a picture of a crying child inside...
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  • The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) is a United States federal advisory panel within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
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    The heritability of autism is the proportion of differences in expression of autism that can be explained by genetic variation; if the heritability of...
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    South Asian conference on Autism in 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is the chairperson of National Advisory Committee on Autism and Neurodevelopmental disorders...
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    The history of autism in France is marked by the strong influence of psychoanalysis, and by the persistence of institutionalization practices that violate...
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  • of autism is the study of the incidence and distribution of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A 2022 systematic review of global prevalence of autism spectrum...
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  • High-functioning autism (HFA) was historically an autism classification where a person exhibits no intellectual disability, but may experience difficulty...
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  • The National Database for Autism Research (NDAR) is a secure research data repository promoting scientific data sharing and collaboration among autism spectrum...
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  • former senior executive of Autism Speaks and the longest-serving public member of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), and Karen Margulis...
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  • pathophysiology of autism is the study of the physiological processes that cause or are otherwise associated with autism spectrum disorders. Autism's symptoms result...
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  • Autism Is a World is an American short subject documentary film by Academy Award Producer and Director Gerardine Wurzburg and allegedly written by Sue...
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  • with Autism Speaks. Interactive Autism Network "Autism Speaks and the National Alliance for Autism Research complete merger" (Press release). Autism Speaks...
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  • The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) is a standardized diagnostic test for assessing autism spectrum disorder. The protocol consists of a...
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  • The autism-spectrum quotient (AQ) is a questionnaire published in 2001 by Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge...
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    The Combating Autism Act of 2006 (Public Law No: 109-416) is an Act of Congress public law that was passed by the 109th United States Congress (Senate...
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    Mel Baggs (category Autism activists)
    Baggs, Amanda. "Real Supports: What works, what doesn't" (PDF). Autism National Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2019. Retrieved...
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  • the Court). Retrieved 18 April 2011. Analysis IDEA Fairness Act Autism National Committee. Analysis, IDEA Fairness Restoration Act. Retrieved 18 April 2011...
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  • The Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) is a structured interview conducted with the parents of individuals who have been referred for the evaluation...
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