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Brian Field is the co-founder of the Autism Support Network, a global community providing free guidance and support for families and individuals touched by autism spectrum disorder. He can be reached at brian@autismsupportnetwork.com.

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Multi-year divide exists between possible and actual autism diagnoses

A key success factor for helping those with autism better cope and interact in the world is early identification, analysis of that child’s...
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Parenting and the high cost of autism

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The cost of raising a child is one of the archetypal concerns that looms over parents. Food, clothing, education, a release to adulthood. When upon...
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Technology and the autism (r)evolution

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Debates on the causes of autism abound: vaccine-induced, thimerosal-triggered, environment or food influenced, genetically predisposed, combinations...
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Autism and tactics for building eye contact

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Children with autism spectrum disorder typically make less eye contact than normally developing children and may not use their eyes to attract...
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Lara’s perspective on autism and living with Asperger’s

Shortly before her eighteenth birthday, we asked Lara about what the hardest things are for her living with Asperger’s – a higher...
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Autism 911 and missing gaps

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A piece running on CNN this week details the 13-year-old Marissa Bilson’s autism and the family’s “transformation” after...
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Strategies for addressing sleep problems and autism

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Parents with children on the autism spectrum frequently are frazzled by unpredictable sleep patterns. Often times, these children are up at all hours...
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Sharing autism and those awkward social moments

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Our son has autism. When people we know discover this there are wide ranges of reaction, most frequently, one of pity "Oh, I'm so sorry!"...
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Autism and bullying at school

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Many parents in our community have recently been discussing autism and bullying in school. In some cases a parent’s child has been relentlessly...
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Autism and applied behavior analysis

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One of the most practiced and scientifically validated therapies for those having autism spectrum disorder is applied behavior analysis (also called...
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