Special Learning FAQs

Autism Care and Treatment (ACT) Today! is a national nonprofit organization that aims to spread awareness about autism treatments and to provide help to those who need it most. It provides funds to families who need financial aid for the treatment of their children. It helps children with autism get the required treatment therapies and it supports these children to reach their potential. It is engaged in promoting awareness about successful treatments of autism through blogs, television and news articles.

Autism Family Resources is a non-profit organization that provides financial help to families of children with autism. This foundation was set up by the parents of an autistic child. It provides families with the essential items that are required by a child who is undergoing a treatment for autism. Autism Family Resources also provides funds to families so that they can purchase these items.

The Autism diagnostic guidelines have been established by The American Association of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Doctors use the guidelines to assess behaviors that are associated with various conditions in the autism spectrum. The guidelines are designed for children who are age three years and older.

Pica is a condition in which a child may crave non-edible substances such as dirt. This can lead to lead poisoning, which affects brain development.

Chromosomal Analysis is an examination of a child’s chromosomes for certain markers can eliminate various hereditary conditions.

EEG stands for Electroencephalograph or Electroencehalogram