• Action for Autism (AFA) is an Indian non-profit, education, training and advocacy organisation. Founded in 1991, AFA started out as a parent support group...
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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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  • 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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  • Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by deficits in reciprocal...
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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 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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    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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    Classic autism, also known as childhood autism, autistic disorder, (early) infantile autism, infantile psychosis, Kanner's autism, Kanner's syndrome,...
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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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  • 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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