Autism

Having a child with autism can make your job as a parent even more complicated. Becoming educated about autism spectrum disorders, however, can help you better understand and care for your child. Below are a number of local and national resources to provide you support throughout your child’s life.

• Helping an Autistic Child: Tips for Choosing Treatment and Finding Support (Helpguide.org)
• Autism (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Autism Speaks
• About Autism (Autism Society of America)
• Asperger Syndrome (National Institute of Child Health and Human Dvelopment)
• About Autism Spectrum Disorders (IAN: Interactive Autism Network)
• First 100 Days Kit: A Tool Kit to Assist Families in Getting the Critical Information They Need in the First 100 Days after an Autism Diagnosis (Autism Speaks, 81 pages, pdf)