Category Archives: Autism Treatment

CARD IS HIRING!

By Tyler Bridges | Published: October 4, 2012
Hiring

We’re hiring Board Certified Behavioral Analysts (BCBA’s)! Are you a BCBA that is looking for employment? Do you know any BCBA’s that are looking for employment?

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LAUSD Selects CARD to Provide Behavioral Health Training To 6,000+ Staff

By Daphne Plump | Published: June 22, 2012
eLearning

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest school district in the nation, has selected the Center for Autism and Related Disorders’ CARD eLearning™ program to provide the district with intense training in evidence-based principles of behavioral health treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Over 6,000 LAUSD teachers and support staff will participate in the training.

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Skills® Launches a Tool to Combat Challenging Behavior in Children with Autism

By Daphne Plump | Published: May 2, 2012
Skills

CARD announced today that Skills®, its online autism solution, now includes a feature for challenging behavior. This new feature is designed to give professionals and families of children with autism access to tools for creating comprehensive, evidence-based behavior intervention plans (BIPs) for challenging behaviors.

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Q&A: Feeding Disorders

By Kate Gutshall | Published: January 11, 2012
Feeding Disorder

What are the typical signs and characteristics of feeding disorders in children?

Feeding disorders are classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV-TR) officially as Feeding Disorder of Infancy or Early Childhood. Official diagnosis requires:

Feeding disturbance as manifested by persistent failure to eat adequately with significant failure to gain weight or significant loss of weight over at least one month.
The disturbance is not due to an associated gastrointestinal or other general medical condition (e.g., esophageal reflux).
The disturbance is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., rumination disorder) or by lack of available food.
The onset is before the age of 6 years.

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CARD eLearning: An Effective Tool for Teaching Family Members the Principles of ABA

By Marlena Smith | Published: January 10, 2012
eLearning

In a recent study, CARD researcher Jina Jang and colleagues found the CARD eLearning program to be effective in training family members of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in the principles and procedures of applied behavior analysis (ABA). CARD eLearning is a web-based training program that covers topics about ABA and the treatment of ASD. Caregiver training is a crucial component of ABA treatment. Some research has suggested that caregiver involvement may improve treatment outcomes for children with ASD.

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Are Clinical Diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders Consistent across Assessment Centers?

By Marlena Smith | Published: November 22, 2011
Clinical

A recent study has received a lot of media attention over its finding that clinical diagnoses of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may be inconsistent across assessment centers. Current diagnostic criteria for ASD is broken down into three separate diagnoses, which include autistic disorder, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), and Asperger’s disorder. In this study, the authors set out to determine if clinical diagnoses of these disorders are consistent across different assessment centers.

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Center for Autism Ranked in Top Three Non-Governmental Organizations Providing Largest Financial Support to Autism Research

By Daphne Plump | Published: July 20, 2011

The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD), has been named one of the top three largest non-governmental financial supporters of autism research in the United States, and the only for-profit organization in the top three-tier ranking. The research findings come from the U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), whose mission is to provide a blueprint for autism research that is advisory to the Department of Health and Human Services and serves as a basis for partnerships with other agencies and private organizations involved in autism research and services.

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Routine Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorders

By Marlena Smith | Published: June 28, 2011

Dr. Al-Qabandi and colleagues set out to review existing research in order to determine whether routine ASD screening would be appropriate for the entire population. Findings of various research studies were used to evaluate how routine ASD screening measured against a number of criteria.

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Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh Discusses New Study On Autism On NBC

By Daphne Plump | Published: June 20, 2011

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CARD Launches Skills 4 America™ Grant to Meet Critical Developmental Disability Needs in Schools

By Daphne Plump | Published: March 29, 2011

NATIONWIDE, March 28, 2011 —- The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD), today announced the launch of Skills 4 America™. Skills 4 America is a nationwide grant program that provides one-year scholarships for Skills™, a breakthrough web-based program for assessing and designing treatment curricula for students with autism and other developmental disorders.

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