Conditions and research areas

• Asperger syndrome
  Asperger syndrome
  Asperger's syndrome that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development...
  
  
• Autism
  Autism
  Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their...
  
  
• Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
• Autism spectrum
  Autism spectrum
  The term "autism spectrum" is often used to describe disorders that are currently classified as pervasive developmental disorders. Pervasive developmental disorders include autism, Asperger syndrome, Childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise...
  
  
• Autism Spectrum Quotient
  Autism Spectrum Quotient
  The Autism Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, is a questionnaire published in 2001 by Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, UK. Consisting of fifty questions, it aims to investigate whether adults of average intelligence have symptoms of autism or one of the other...
  
  
• Causes of autism
  Causes of autism
  Many causes of autism have been proposed, but understanding of the theory of causation of autism and the other autism spectrum disorders is incomplete. Heritability contributes about 90% of the risk of a child developing autism, but the heritability of autism is complex and typically it is...
  
  
• Childhood disintegrative disorder
  Childhood disintegrative disorder
  Childhood disintegrative disorder , also known as Heller's syndrome and disintegrative psychosis, is a rare condition characterized by late onset of developmental delays in language, social function, and motor skills...
  
  
• Conditions comorbid to autism spectrum disorders
  Conditions comorbid to autism spectrum disorders
  There are many conditions comorbid to autism spectrum disorders, such as fragile X syndrome and epilepsy. In medicine and in psychiatry, comorbidity describes the effect of other diseases an individual patient might have other than the primary disease of interest...
  
  
• Developmental disability
  Developmental disability
  Developmental disability is a term used in the United States and Canada to describe lifelong disabilities attributable to mental or physical impairments, manifested prior to age 18. It is not synonymous with "developmental delay" which is often a consequence of a temporary illness or trauma during...
  
  
• Epidemiology of autism
  Epidemiology of autism
  The epidemiology of autism is the study of factors affecting autism spectrum disorders . Most recent reviews of epidemiology estimate a prevalence of one to two cases per 2,000 people for autism, and about six per 1,000 for ASD; because of inadequate data, these numbers may underestimate ASD's true...
  
  
• Fragile X syndrome
  Fragile X syndrome
  Fragile X syndrome , Martin–Bell syndrome, or Escalante's syndrome , is a genetic syndrome that is the most commonly known single-gene cause of autism and the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability...
  
  
• Genetic disorder
  Genetic disorder
  A genetic disorder is an illness caused by abnormalities in genes or chromosomes, especially a condition that is present from before birth. Most genetic disorders are quite rare and affect one person in every several thousands or millions....
  
  
• Heritability of autism
  Heritability of autism
  The heritability of autism is the proportion of autism that can be explained by genetic variation; if the heritability of a condition is high, then the condition is considered to be primarily genetic...
  
  
• High-functioning autism
  High-functioning autism
  High-functioning autism is an informal term applied to autistic people who are deemed to be "higher functioning" than other autistic people, by one or more metrics. There is no consensus as to the definition. HFA is not yet a recognised diagnosis in the DSM-IV-TR or the ICD-10.The amount of...
  
  
• Isodicentric 15
  Isodicentric 15
  Isodicentric 15, also called idic, partial tetrasomy 15q, or inverted duplication 15 , is a chromosome abnormality in which a child is born with extra genetic material from chromosome 15. People with idic are typically born with 47 chromosomes in their body cells, instead of the normal 46...
  
  
• Language delay
  Language delay
  Language delay is a failure to develop language abilities on the usual developmental timetable. Language delay is distinct from speech delay, in which the speech mechanism itself is the focus of delay...
  
  
• Learning disability
  Learning disability
  Learning disability is a classification including several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors...
  
  
• List of further reading on Asperger syndrome
• Minamata disease‎
• Mirror neuron
  Mirror neuron
  A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behaviour of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate and other...
  
  
• Pervasive developmental disorder
  Pervasive developmental disorder
  Pervasive developmental disorders is a diagnostic category refers to a group of disorders characterized by delays or impairments in communication, social behaviors, and cognitive development.Pervasive developmental disorders include Autism, Asperger's syndrome, Rett's syndrome, Childhood...
  
  
• PDD-NOS
• Phelan-McDermin 22q13 deletion syndrome
  22q13 deletion syndrome
  22q13 Deletion Syndrome , also known as Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, is a genetic disorder caused by a microdeletion on chromosome 22. The deletion occurs at the terminal end of the chromosome at the location designated q13.3...
  
  
• Rett syndrome
  Rett syndrome
  Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder of the grey matter of the brain that almost exclusively affects females. The clinical features include small hands and feet and a deceleration of the rate of head growth . Repetitive hand movements, such as wringing and/or repeatedly putting hands into...
  
  
• Spindle neuron
  Spindle neuron
  Spindle neurons, also called von Economo neurons , are a specific class of neurons that are characterized by a large spindle-shaped soma, gradually tapering into a single apical axon in one direction, with only a single dendrite facing opposite. Whereas other types of neurons tend to have many...
  
  
• Weak central coherence theory
  Weak central coherence theory
  The weak central coherence theory , also called the central coherence theory , suggests that a specific perceptual-cognitive style, loosely described as a limited ability to understand context or to "see the big picture", underlies the central disturbance in autism and related autism spectrum...
  
  
• Mental retardation
  Mental retardation
  Mental retardation is a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors...
  
  
• PANDAS
• Genetic disorders

Controversies

• Autism rights movement
  Autism rights movement
  The autism rights movement is a social movement that encourages autistic people, their caregivers and society to adopt a position of neurodiversity, accepting autism as a variation in functioning rather than a mental disorder to be cured...
  
  
• Autism's False Prophets
  Autism's False Prophets
  Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure is a 2008 book by Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and chief of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia...
  
  
• Autism Speaks
  Autism Speaks
  Autism Speaks is the world's largest autism advocacy organization that sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public. It was founded in February 2005 by Bob Wright, vice chairman of General Electric, and by his wife Suzanne, a...
  
  
• Chelation therapy
  Chelation therapy
  Chelation therapy is the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body. For the most common forms of heavy metal intoxication—those involving lead, arsenic or mercury—the standard of care in the United States dictates the use of dimercaptosuccinic acid...
  
  
• Controversies in autism
  Controversies in autism
  Controversies in autism encompass the disagreement over the exact nature of autism, its causes and manifestations. Autism is considered to be a neurodevelopmental condition which manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, and patterns of interests.The cause of...
  
  
• Ethical challenges to autism treatment
• Gluten-free, casein-free diet
  Gluten-free, casein-free diet
  A gluten-free casein-free diet eliminates dietary intake of the naturally occurring proteins gluten and casein .-Controversial autism diet:...
  
  
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy , is the medical use of oxygen at a level higher than atmospheric pressure. The equipment required consists of a pressure chamber, which may be of rigid or flexible construction, and a means of delivering 100% oxygen...
  
  
• Jenny McCarthy
  Jenny McCarthy
  Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy is an American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a successful television and...
  
  
• MMR vaccine controversy
  MMR vaccine controversy
  The MMR vaccine controversy was a case of scientific misconduct which triggered a health scare. It followed the publication in 1998 of a paper in the medical journal The Lancet which presented apparent evidence that autism spectrum disorders could be caused by the MMR vaccine, an immunization...
  
  
• Mother Warriors
  Mother Warriors
  Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds is the fifth book published by New York Times bestselling author and playboy playmate Jenny McCarthy. Her previous book, Louder Than Words, reached #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has more than 200,000 hardcovers in...
  
  
• Neurodiversity
  Neurodiversity
  Neurodiversity is a "controversial concept [that] ... regards atypical neurologicaldevelopment as a normal human difference". According to Jaarsma and Welin , the "neurodiversity movement was developed in the 1990s by online groups of autistic persons...
  
  
• Refrigerator mother
  Refrigerator mother
  The term refrigerator mother was coined around 1950 as a label for mothers of children diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. These mothers were often blamed for their children's atypical behavior, which included rigid rituals, speech difficulty, and self-isolation.The "refrigerator mother" label...
  
  
• Stealth-adapted viruses
• Thimerosal controversy
• Vaccine controversy
  Vaccine controversy
  A vaccine controversy is a dispute over the morality, ethics, effectiveness, or safety of vaccinations. Medical and scientific evidence surrounding vaccinations generally demonstrate that the benefits of preventing suffering and death from infectious diseases outweigh rare adverse effects of...
  
  

People

• Autistic savant
• List of people on the autistic spectrum
• List of fictional characters on the autistic spectrum
• People speculated to have been autistic
  People speculated to have been autistic
  Famous historical people have been speculated to have had autism or other autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome by journalists, academics and autism professionals. Such speculation is controversial and little of it is undisputed...
  
  
• Temple Grandin
  Temple Grandin
  Temple Grandin is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior...
  
  
• Donna Williams

Journalists

• Brian Deer
  Brian Deer
  Brian Deer is a British investigative reporter, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine and social issues for the Sunday Times of London.- Career :...
  
  
• David Kirby
• Norm Ledgin
  Norm Ledgin
  Norm Ledgin is an American writer and journalist, living in the Stanley section of Overland Park, Kansas...
  
  
• Dan Olmsted
  Dan Olmsted
  Dan Olmsted is an investigative reporter and former senior editor for United Press International , a news agency of the Unification Church company News World Communications. Olmsted wrote a series about a discredited hypothesis linking vaccination to autism...
  
  
• Lenny Schafer
  Lenny Schafer
  Lenny Schafer is the adoptive parent of an autistic child. He is the editor of the "Schafer Autism Report", an autism publication. He was a recipient of the Doug Flutie Jr. Award—given in honor of Doug Flutie Jr., the son of New England Patriot, Doug Flutie—who has autism...
  
  

Politicians, philanthropists and leading activists

• Liz Birt
• Dan Burton
  Dan Burton
  Danny "Dan" Lee Burton is the U.S. Representative for , and previously the , serving since 1983. He is a member of the Republican Party....
  
  
• Ivan and Charika Corea
• Michelle Dawson
  Michelle Dawson
  Michelle Dawson is an individual diagnosed with autism and an autism researcher. She has written a paper challenging the ethical and scientific foundations of Applied Behavior Analysis -based autism interventions. She also challenged the medical necessity of ABA for individuals with autism in...
  
  
• Deirdre Imus
  Deirdre Imus
  Deirdre Coleman Imus is the founder and president of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center, part of Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, United States...
  
  
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. is an American radio host, activist, and attorney specializing in environmental law. He is the third of eleven children born to Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy...
  
  
• Michael Koffler
• Jenny McCarthy
  Jenny McCarthy
  Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy is an American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a successful television and...
  
  
• Rick Rollens
  Rick Rollens
  Rick Rollens is an American lobbyist with a client list including ARCA , Autism Speaks, and Applied Behavior Consultants. He is also a political consultant and identifies as an internationally known advocate for autism research...
  
  
• Lee Scott
  Lee Scott (UK politician)
  Lee Scott is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Ilford North, and an officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel group.-Early life:Scott was born in the East End of London to a British Jewish family,...
  
  
• Steve Shirley
  Steve Shirley
  Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley, DBE, FRA, FREng, FRSA, FBCS is a British businesswoman and philanthropist. She originally arrived in Britain as an unaccompanied Kindertransport child refugee. She was placed with foster parents and later re-united with her biological parents, but later claimed she...
  
  
• James Harris Simons
  James Harris Simons
  James Harris "Jim" Simons is an American hedge fund manager, mathematician, and philanthropist.In 1982, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies, a private investment firm based in New York with over $15 billion under management; Simons is still at the helm, as CEO, of what is now one of the...
  
  
• Jim Sinclair
• Dave Weldon
  Dave Weldon
  David Joseph Weldon, is an American politician and physician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing .-Early life:...
  
  
• Donna Williams
  Donna Williams (author)
  Donna Williams is a best-selling author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor diagnosed with autism after being assessed as a psychotic infant in 1965 at age two, tested multiple times for deafness and labeled disturbed throughout childhood, before treatment for gut, immune and...
  
  
• Bob Wright
  Robert Charles Wright
  Robert Charles "Bob" Wright was a U.S. television businessman, having served as Chairman of NBC Universal. He graduated from Chaminade High School, the College of the Holy Cross and earned an LLB from the University of Virginia Law School....
  
  

Researchers and therapists

• John Allman
  John Allman
  John Morgan Allman is a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California and a well recognized expert on primates, cognition and evolutionary neuroscience.-Life:He graduated from University of Chicago, with a PhD....
  
  
• David Amaral
  David Amaral
  David G. Amaral, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, United States, and since 1998 has been the research director at the M.I.N.D. Institute, an affiliate of UC Davis, engaged in interdisciplinary research into the causes and treatment of autism and related...
  
  
• Balázs Anna
  Anna Balazs
  Anna Balazs is the director of the Hungarian Autism Research Group, in Budapest and the director of Kapocs Issue, publisher of Henriett Seth-F.'s book with title Autizmussal onmagamba zarva...
  
  
• Hans Asperger
  Hans Asperger
  Hans Asperger was an Austrian pediatrician, after whom Asperger syndrome was named. He wrote over 300 publications, mostly concerning autism in children.-Biography:...
  
  
• Simon Baron-Cohen
  Simon Baron-Cohen
  Simon Baron-Cohen FBA is professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre, and a Fellow of Trinity College...
  
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• Sallie Bernard
• Bruno Bettelheim
  Bruno Bettelheim
  Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American child psychologist and writer. He gained an international reputation for his work on Freud, psychoanalysis, and emotionally disturbed children.-Background:...
  
  
• Thomas Burbacher
  Thomas Burbacher
  Thomas Burbacher, PhD, is professor of environmental and occupational health sciences and the director of the Infant Primate Research Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle.-Education:...
  
  
• Manuel Casanova
  Manuel Casanova
  Manuel F. Casanova is the Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in Outpatient Psychiatry and a Professor of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology at the University of Louisville.-Education and early career:...
  
  
• Richard Deth
  Richard Deth
  Richard Deth, Ph.D., is a neuropharmacologist, a professor of pharmacology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is on the scientific advisory board of the National Autism Association...
  
  
• Eric Fombonne
  Eric Fombonne
  Eric Fombonne, MD, FRCP, is a professor of psychiatry and an epidemiologist. He directs the child psychiatry division at McGill University in Canada and the psychiatry department at the Montreal Children's Hospital, where he played a key role in the launch of its autism clinic. Fombonne is also...
  
  
• Mark Geier
  Mark Geier
  Mark R. Geier is a self-employed American physician and controversial professional witness who has testified in more than 90 cases regarding allegations of injury or illness caused by vaccines....
  
  
• Christopher Gillberg
  Christopher Gillberg
  Lars Christopher Gillberg , who has sometimes published as Gillberg and Gillberg with his wife Carina Gillberg, is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Gothenburg University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and an honorary professor at the Institute of Child Health , University College London...
  
  
• Stanley Greenspan
  Stanley Greenspan
  Stanley Greenspan was a clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and a practicing child psychiatrist...
  
  
• Boyd Haley
  Boyd Haley
  Boyd E. Haley, PhD , is a retired professor of chemistry at the University of Kentucky. The basic research interest of his laboratory centered on biochemical and biomedical problems involving control at the molecular level, particularly in biological systems regulated by protein–nucleotide...
  
  
• Mady Hornig
  Mady Hornig
  Mady Hornig, MD is a psychiatrist and an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where she is Director of Translational Research in the Center for Infection and Immunity...
  
  
• Leo Kanner
  Leo Kanner
  Leo Kanner was a Jewish American psychiatrist and physician known for his work related to autism. Kanner's work formed the foundation of child and adolescent psychiatry in the U.S. and worldwide....
  
  
• Arthur Krigsman
  Arthur Krigsman
  Arthur Krigsman, MD, is a pediatrician and gastroenterologist best known for his controversial and widely-criticized research in which he attempted to prove that the MMR vaccine caused diseases, especially autism...
  
  
• Derrick Lonsdale
  Derrick Lonsdale
  Derrick Lonsdale M.D., Fellow of the American Collegeof Nutrition , Fellow of the American College for Advancement in Medicine is a pediatrician and researcher into the benefits of certain nutrients in preventing disease and psychotic behavior...
  
  
• Ole Ivar Lovaas
  Ole Ivar Lovaas
  Ole Ivar Løvaas, Ph.D. was a clinical psychologist at UCLA. He is considered to be one of the fathers of applied behavior analysis therapy for autism through his development of the Lovaas technique and the first to provide evidence that the behavior of autistic children can be modified through...
  
  
• Marilyn J. Monteiro
  Marilyn J. Monteiro
  Marilyn J. Monteiro, Ph.D. is a psychologist who specializes in evaluating and diagnosing children on the spectrum of autism disorders.Monteiro graduated from Grinnell College with a BA in Psychology and Education. She has an M.A. in Psychology from Drake University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from...
  
  
• Paul Offit
  Paul Offit
  Paul A. Offit, M.D., is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine that has been credited with saving hundreds of lives every day. Offit is the Maurice R...
  
  
• Lyn Redwood
• Bernard Rimland
  Bernard Rimland
  Bernard Rimland, PhD was an American research psychologist, writer, lecturer, and advocate for autistic children, ADHD, learning disabilities, and mental retardation.Based in San Diego, California since 1940, Dr...
  
  
• Diana Seach
  Diana Seach
  Diana Seach is an English specialist in special education.Seach established the 'smile: Interactive Play for Children with Autism' programme in 2000. She taught in special education for twenty years, and was the founder of the Southdowns Support Group for families of children with autism...
  
  
• Peter Szatmari
  Peter Szatmari
  Peter Szatmari is a Canadian researcher of Autism and Asperger syndrome.Szatmari is a Professor and Vice-Chair, Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, at McMaster University. He is also the Director of the research training program in the department, and a member of the...
  
  
• Andrew Wakefield
  Andrew Wakefield
  Andrew Wakefield is a British former surgeon and medical researcher, known as an advocate for the discredited claim that there is a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, autism and bowel disease, and for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of that claim.Four years after...
  
  
• Lorna Wing
  Lorna Wing
  Lorna Wing, MD, FRCPsych, is an English psychiatrist and physician.As a result of having an autistic daughter, she became involved in researching developmental disorders, particularly autism spectrum disorders. She joined with other parents of autistic children to found the National Autistic...
  
  

Culture

• Autism rights movement
  Autism rights movement
  The autism rights movement is a social movement that encourages autistic people, their caregivers and society to adopt a position of neurodiversity, accepting autism as a variation in functioning rather than a mental disorder to be cured...
  
  
• Autistic art
  Autistic art
  Autistic art can be that done by autistic artists or that which captures or conveys a variety of autistic experiences or demeanor.-Autistic art:...
  
  
• Neurodiversity
  Neurodiversity
  Neurodiversity is a "controversial concept [that] ... regards atypical neurologicaldevelopment as a normal human difference". According to Jaarsma and Welin , the "neurodiversity movement was developed in the 1990s by online groups of autistic persons...
  
  
• Neurotypical
  Neurotypical
  Neurotypical is a term that was coined in the autistic community as a label for people who are not on the autism spectrum: specifically, neurotypical people have neurological development and states that are consistent with what most people would perceive as normal, particularly with respect to...
  
  
• Sociological and cultural aspects of autism
  Sociological and cultural aspects of autism
  Sociological and cultural aspects of autism come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies, and how autism affects how we define personhood. The autism rights movement is based on a belief that autism is a different way of being and not a disorder to be...
  
  

Legislation

• Children's Health Act
  Children's Health Act
  The Children's Health Act of 2000 is a legislative measure, passed by the United States Congress, which directs federal agencies to undertake a national, long-term study of children's health and development in relation to environmental exposures; specifically diseases that are increasingly...
  
  
• Combating Autism Act
  Combating Autism Act
  The Combating Autism Act of 2006, Pub. Law No. 109-416, is an Act of the United States Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 19, 2006...
  
  
• Jonathan's Law
  Jonathan's Law
  Jonathan's Law, a New York statute co-sponsored by Harvey Weisenberg signed into law in May 2007, by governor Elliot Spitzer, entitles parents and legal guardians access to all child abuse investigation files and medical history records....
  
  
• National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
  National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
  The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was enacted in the United States to reduce the potential financial liability of vaccine makers due to vaccine injury claims. The legislation was aimed at ensuring a stable market supply, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine...
  
  

Organizations, stakeholder groups and events

• 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference
  2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference
  The 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference was a meeting convened in June 2000 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , held at the Simpsonwood Methodist retreat and conference center in Norcross, Georgia...
  
  
• A-CHAMP
• Aspies For Freedom
  Aspies For Freedom
  Aspies For Freedom is a solidarity and campaigning group which aims at raising public awareness of the autism rights movement. The term "Aspies" refers to people who have been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, but the group also welcomes anyone on the autism spectrum.-Aims:The aim of Aspies For...
  
  
• Autism Awareness Campaign UK
  Autism Awareness Campaign UK
  The Autism Awareness Campaign – United Kingdom was launched in 2000 by Ivan and Charika Corea in response to the autism diagnosis of their son, Charin.-Objectives:...
  
  
• Autism-Europe
• Autism Network International
  Autism Network International
  Autism Network International is an advocacy organization run by and for autistic people. ANI's principles involve the anti-cure perspective, the perspective that there should not be a goal to "cure" people of autism.-Autreat:...
  
  
• Autism Research Institute‎
• Autism Resource Centre (Singapore)
  Autism Resource Centre (Singapore)
  Autism Resource Centre is a non-profit organisation in Singapore.Started by volunteers, ARC aims to highlight the needs of individuals with an autism spectrum disorder and provide a spectrum of services that helps them maximise their fullest potential and lead meaningful lives in society.ARC...
  
  
• Autism Society of America
  Autism Society of America
  The Autism Society of America was founded in 1965 by Bernard Rimland, PhD, together with Ruth C. Sullivan and a small group of other parents of autistic children. Its original name was the National Society for Autistic Children; the name was changed to emphasize that children with autism grow up...
  
  
• Autism Speaks
  Autism Speaks
  Autism Speaks is the world's largest autism advocacy organization that sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public. It was founded in February 2005 by Bob Wright, vice chairman of General Electric, and by his wife Suzanne, a...
  
  
• Autism Sunday
  Autism Sunday
  Autism Sunday, also known as the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger syndrome, is observed annually on the second Sunday of February.- History :...
  
  
• Autistic Pride Day
  Autistic Pride Day
  Autistic Pride Day is a celebration of the neurodiversity of people on the autism spectrum on June 18 each year. Autistic pride is pride in autism, about shifting views of autism from "disease" to "difference"...
  
  
• Autism Treatment Trust
• Autism Network International
  Autism Network International
  Autism Network International is an advocacy organization run by and for autistic people. ANI's principles involve the anti-cure perspective, the perspective that there should not be a goal to "cure" people of autism.-Autreat:...
  
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• Beijing Stars and Rain School (北京星星雨教育研究所), see Children of the Stars
  Children of the Stars
  Children of the Stars is a 2007 documentary about children with autism in the People's Republic of China. It was produced by Alexander Haase and directed by Rob Aspey...
  
  
• Center for Autism and Related Disorders
  Center for Autism and Related Disorders
  The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. , founded in 1990 by Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh, is among the largest Autism treatment organizations in the world. CARD's stated mission is to provide the highest quality ABA behavioral intervention to children with autism around the world...
  
  
• Generation Rescue
  Generation Rescue
  Generation Rescue is a nonprofit organization that advocates the view that autism and related disorders are primarily caused by environmental factors, particularly vaccines. These claims are biologically implausible and lack convincing scientific evidence...
  
  
• M.I.N.D. Institute
• National Autism Association
• National Autistic Society
  National Autistic Society
  The National Autistic Society is a British charity for people with autistic spectrum disorders , including autism and Asperger's Syndrome. The purpose of the organisation is primarily to improve of the lives of people with Autism in the United Kingdom.Founded in 1962 as the Autistic Children's Aid...
  
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• National Vaccine Information Center
  National Vaccine Information Center
  The National Vaccine Information Center is a private non-profit 501 advocacy group which questions the safety and efficacy of commonly used vaccines. The group was founded in 1982 by parents who blamed routine vaccination for the illness or death of a child...
  
  
• Safe Minds
  Safe Minds
  The Coalition for SafeMinds is a non-profit organization dedicated to investigating the risks of exposure to mercury from medical products...
  
  
• Talk About Curing Autism‎
• Thoughtful House
• TreeHouse
  TreeHouse
  TreeHouse is a United Kingdom charity working to improve the quality of life of children diagnosed with autism and their families, and to inform the general public about autism spectrum disorders. TreeHouse was established in 1997 by parents of children with autism. The current chief executive is...
  
  
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
  Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
  The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a United States program for vaccine safety, co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration . VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events that...
  
  
• Wrong Planet
  Wrong Planet
  Wrong Planet is an online community for individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome. The site was started in 2004 by Dan Grover and Alex Plank and includes a chatroom, a large forum, a dating section, and articles describing how to deal with daily issues...
  
  

Therapies and interventions

• Applied behavior analysis
  Applied Behavior Analysis
  Applied behavior analysis is a science that involves using modern behavioral learning theory to modify behaviors. Behavior analysts reject the use of hypothetical constructs and focus on the observable relationship of behavior to the environment...
  
  
• Chelation therapy
  Chelation therapy
  Chelation therapy is the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body. For the most common forms of heavy metal intoxication—those involving lead, arsenic or mercury—the standard of care in the United States dictates the use of dimercaptosuccinic acid...
  
  
• Clomipramine
  Clomipramine
  Clomipramine is a tricyclic antidepressant . It was developed in the 1960s by the Swiss drug manufacturer Geigy and has been in clinical use worldwide ever since.- Indications :...
  
  
• Craniosacral therapy
  Craniosacral therapy
  Craniosacral therapy is an alternative medicine therapy used by osteopaths, massage therapists, naturopaths, and chiropractors. A craniosacral therapy session involves the therapist placing their hands on the patient, which allows them to "tune into the craniosacral rhythm"...
  
  
• Ethical challenges to autism treatment
• Floortime
  Floortime
  Floortime/DIR approach is a developmental intervention for children experiencing developmental delays due to autism, Asperger syndrome, or other developmental disorders. Floortime involves meeting a child at his or her current developmental level, and building upon a particular set of strengths...
  
  
• Fluvoxamine
  Fluvoxamine
  Fluvoxamine is an antidepressant which functions as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor . Fluvoxamine was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1993 for the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder . Fluvoxamine CR is approved to treat social anxiety disorder...
  
  
• Gluten-free, casein-free diet
  Gluten-free, casein-free diet
  A gluten-free casein-free diet eliminates dietary intake of the naturally occurring proteins gluten and casein .-Controversial autism diet:...
  
  
• Haloperidol
  Haloperidol
  Haloperidol is a typical antipsychotic. It is in the butyrophenone class of antipsychotic medications and has pharmacological effects similar to the phenothiazines....
  
  
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy , is the medical use of oxygen at a level higher than atmospheric pressure. The equipment required consists of a pressure chamber, which may be of rigid or flexible construction, and a means of delivering 100% oxygen...
  
  
• Hug machine
  Hug machine
  A hug machine, also known as a hug box, a squeeze machine, or a squeeze box, is a deep-pressure device designed to calm hyper-sensitive persons, usually individuals with autism spectrum disorders...
  
  
• Lovaas technique
  Lovaas technique
  LOVAAS technique, which is known to the general public as Applied behavior analysis , as well as Intensive behavioral intervention , and Early intensive behavioral intervention , is a form of treatment guided by ABA and developed by Dr. Ivar Lovaas, a psychology professor at UCLA...
  
  
• Pivotal response therapy
• The P.L.A.Y. Project
  The P.L.A.Y. Project
  The P.L.A.Y. Project or The PLAY Project is a community-based, national autism training and early intervention program established in 2001 by Richard Solomon, MD...
  
  
• Relationship Development Intervention
  Relationship Development Intervention
  Relationship Development Intervention is a trademarked proprietary treatment program for autism spectrum disorders , based on the belief that the development of dynamic intelligence is the key to improving the quality of life for individuals with autism...
  
  
• Risperidone
  Risperidone
  Risperidone is a second generation or atypical antipsychotic, sold under the trade name . It is used to treat schizophrenia , schizoaffective disorder, the mixed and manic states associated with bipolar disorder, and irritability in people with autism...
  
  
• Secretin
  Secretin
  Secretin is a hormone that controls the secretions into the duodenum, and also separately, water homeostasis throughout the body. It is produced in the S cells of the duodenum in the crypts of Lieberkühn...
  
  
• Son-Rise
  Son-Rise
  Son-Rise is a home-based program for children with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities, which was developed by Barry Neil Kaufman and Samahria Lyte Kaufman for their autistic son. The program is a parent-directed, relationship-based play therapy...
  
  
• Speech therapy
• TEACCH
  TEACCH
  Treatment and education of autistic and related communication handicapped children is a service, training, and research program for individuals of all ages and skill levels with autism spectrum disorders. The TEACCH approach was developed at the University of North Carolina, originating in a...
  
  
• Treatment and education of autistic and related communication handicapped children
• Vitamin B12
  Vitamin B12
  Vitamin B12, vitamin B12 or vitamin B-12, also called cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin with a key role in the normal functioning of the brain and nervous system, and for the formation of blood. It is one of the eight B vitamins...
  
  

Possibly associated conditions

• Alexithymia
  Alexithymia
  Alexithymia from the Ancient Greek words λέξις and θυμός modified by an alpha-privative—literally "without words for emotions"—is a term coined by psychotherapist Peter Sifneos in 1973 to describe a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing...
  
  
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
  Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a developmental disorder. It is primarily characterized by "the co-existence of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each behavior occurring infrequently alone" and symptoms starting before seven years of age.ADHD is the most commonly studied and...
  
   (ADHD)
• Autistic enterocolitis
  Autistic enterocolitis
  "Autistic enterocolitis" is a controversial term first used by discredited British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield to describe a number of common clinical symptoms and signs which he contends are distinctive to autism...
  
  
• Clinical depression
  Clinical depression
  Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and by loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities...
  
  
• Coeliac disease
  Coeliac disease
  Coeliac disease , is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine that occurs in genetically predisposed people of all ages from middle infancy onward...
  
  
• Communication disorder
  Communication disorder
  A communication disorder is a speech and language disorder which refers to problems in communication and in related areas such as oral motor function. The delays and disorders can range from simple sound substitution to the inability to understand or use language...
  
  
• Crohn's disease
  Crohn's disease
  Crohn's disease, also known as regional enteritis, is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, causing a wide variety of symptoms...
  
  
• Deafness
• Dyscalculia
  Dyscalculia
  Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending simple arithmetic. It is akin to dyslexia and includes difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, learning maths facts, and a number of other related symptoms...
  
  
• Dysgraphia
  Dysgraphia
  Dysgraphia is a deficiency in the ability to write primarily in terms of handwriting, but also in terms of coherence. It occurs regardless of the ability to read and is not due to intellectual impairment...
  
  
• Dyslexia
  Dyslexia
  Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...
  
  
• Dyspraxia
  Dyspraxia
  Developmental dyspraxia is a motor learning difficulty that can affect planning of movements and co-ordination as a result of brain messages not being accurately transmitted to the body...
  
  
• Echolalia
  Echolalia
  Echolalia is the automatic repetition of vocalizations made by another person. It is closely related to echopraxia, the automatic repetition of movements made by another person....
  
  
• Erotophobia
  Erotophobia
  Erotophobia is a term coined by a number of researchers in the late 1970s and early 1980s to describe one pole on a continuum of attitudes and beliefs about sexuality...
  
  
• Hyperlexia
  Hyperlexia
  Hyperlexia was initially identified by Silberg and Silberg , who defined it as the precocious ability to read words without prior training in learning to read typically before the age of 5. They indicated that children with hyperlexia have a significantly higher word decoding ability than their...
  
  
• Inflammatory bowel disease
  Inflammatory bowel disease
  In medicine, inflammatory bowel disease is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine. The major types of IBD are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.-Classification:...
  
  
• Mental retardation
  Mental retardation
  Mental retardation is a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors...
  
  
• Multiple-complex Developmental Disorder
  Multiple-complex Developmental Disorder
  Multiple complex developmental disorder is a research category, proposed to involve several neurological and psychological symptoms where at least some symptoms are first noticed during early childhood and persist throughout life...
  
  
• Multisystem Developmental Disorder
  Multisystem Developmental Disorder
  Multisystem developmental disorder is a term used by Stanley Greenspan to describe children under age 3 who exhibit signs of impaired communication as in autism, but with strong emotional attachments atypical of autism.-Other uses of the term:...
  
  
• Nonverbal learning disorder
  Nonverbal learning disorder
  A nonverbal learning disorder or nonverbal learning disability is a condition characterized by a significant discrepancy between higher verbal and lower motor, visuo-spatial, and social skills on an IQ test...
  
  
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Picture thinking
• Pyroluria
• Semantic pragmatic disorder
  Semantic Pragmatic Disorder
  Pragmatic language impairment is an impairment in understanding pragmatic areas of language. This type of impairment was previously called semantic-pragmatic disorder . Pragmatic language impairments are related to autism and Asperger syndrome, but also could be related to other non autistic...
  
  
• Sensory integration dysfunction
  Sensory Integration Dysfunction
  Sensory integration dysfunction is a neurological disorder characterized by a neurological sensory integration deficit. The more current diagnostic nosology uses the term sensory processing disorder to describe this condition....
  
  
• Sensory defensiveness
  Sensory defensiveness
  Sensory defensiveness is a condition defined as having "a tendency to react negatively or with alarm to sensory input which is generally considered harmless or non-irritating" to neurotypical persons....
  
  
• Sensory overload
  Sensory overload
  Sensory overload , related to Cognitive load in general, is a condition where one or more of the senses are strained and it becomes difficult to focus on the task at hand...
  
  
• Social alienation
  Social alienation
  The term social alienation has many discipline-specific uses; Roberts notes how even within the social sciences, it “is used to refer both to a personal psychological state and to a type of social relationship”...
  
  

See also

• Wikipedia:Notice board for autism-related topics