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  2. An adult with autism shares the most important advice he ...

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    As an adult with autism, Dr. Kerry Magro fields at least 100 messages a month from parents whose children are the autism spectrum. He got so many questions that Magro, who was once a nonverbal ...

  3. Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment - Wikipedia

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    Adult Self-Report (ASR) – To be completed by the adult. This assesses the adult's adaptive functioning, strengths, and problems. Adult Behavior Checklist (ABCL) – To be completed by a known individual of the adult, meant to reflect answers provided on the ASR. Brief Problem Monitor for Ages 18-59 (BPM/18-59) Older adult assessments:

  4. Professional practice of behavior analysis - Wikipedia

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    Examples of these applications include: managing behavior of children in school settings; enhancing the abilities, and choices of children and adults with different kinds of disabilities; training animals; and augmenting the performance and satisfaction of employees in organizations and businesses. [3]

  5. Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program

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    The Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP) is an assessment and skills-tracking system to assess the language, learning and social skills of children with autism or other developmental disabilities. A strong focus of the VB-MAPP is language and social interaction, which are the predominant areas of weakness in ...

  6. Adults with autism say they always felt 'different' growing ...

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    How common is it to be diagnosed with autism as an adult? An estimated 5.4 million (or 2.21%) of adults in the U.S. have autism spectrum disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

  7. Autism-friendly - Wikipedia

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    Autism Alert Cards, for example, are available for autistic people in London, England, UK so that police and emergency personnel will recognize autistic individuals and respond appropriately. The cards, which encourage autism-friendly interaction, have a couple of key points about interacting with autistic people.

  8. Social skills - Wikipedia

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    Behavioral skills training is also used for people with borderline personality disorder, [28] depression, [29] and developmental disabilities. [26] [30] Typically, behaviorists try to develop what are considered cusp skills, [31] which are critical skills to open access to a variety of environments. The rationale for this type of approach to ...

  9. Special interest (autism) - Wikipedia

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    Engaging in special interests can bring autistic people great joy [24] [25] and many autistic people spend large amounts of time engaged in their special interest. [26] In adults, engaging with special interests has been shown to have positive outcomes for mental health, [27] self-esteem, [28] and can be used to manage stress.