The Second Edition of the Encyclopedia digests and presents new and updated information for readers who need to stay current with the latest research and clinical practices, including advances in neurobiology and genetics, diagnostic instruments and assessment tests, pharmaceutical treatments, and behavioral, speech and language, and other rehabilitative therapies.

Table of Contents

• Preface to Second Edition
• Preface to First Edition
• About the Editor
• List of Field Editors
• Associate Editor
• Contributors
• A
• µ
• µ Rhythm
• 1-[1-[4,4-Bis(p-fluorophenyl) butyl]-4-piperidyl]-2-benzimidazolinone
• 15q13.3 Microdeletion Syndrome
• 16p11.2
• 3-(2-Chloro-10 H-phenothiazin-10-yl)-N,N-dimethylpropan-1 -amine Hydrochloride
• 3-Chloro-5-[3- (dimethylamino)propyl]- 10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenz[b,f] azepine Monohydrochloride
• 3-Day Measles
• 504 Plan
• 5-HT
• 5-Hydroxytryptamine
• 7-[4-[4-(2,3-Dichlorophenyl)- 1-piperazinyl]butoxy]-3,4-dihydro-2(1 H)-quinolinone
• 7-Dehydrocholesterol Reductase Deficiency
• 7q11.23 Duplications
• 8-Chloro-1-methyl-6-phenyl-4H-s-triazolo [4,3-a] [1,4] Benzodiazepine
• AACAP
• AACAP Practice Parameters
• Aarskog Syndrome
• Aarskog-Scott Syndrome
• ABA
• ABAS, Second Edition
• ABAS-II
• ABC
• ABC-C
• ABC-R
• Aberrant Behavior Checklist
• Aberrant Behavior Checklist - Community
• Aberrant Behavior Checklist - Residential
• ABI, Autism Behavior Inventory
• Abilify
• ABI-S, Autism Behavior Inventory-Short Form
• ABLLS: Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills
• ABLLS-R
• Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale
• Abnormality
• Abolishing Operations
• Absence Seizures, Second Edition
• Academic Disability
• Academic Skills
• Academic Supports
• Academic Testing
• Acallosal Syndrome
• ACC
• Accommodations
• Accommodations in Testing
• Accuracy of the ADOS-2 in Identifying Autism Among Adults with Complex Psychiatric Conditions, The
• Accuracy of Treatment Implementation
• Acetylcholine: Definition
• Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors
• ACh
• AChE-Inhibitors
• Achievement Testing
• Achieving a Better Life Experience Savings Account (ABLE Savings Account, ABLE Account, 529A Savings Plan, and 529A Account)
• Achieving Academic Independence in Middle School-Outpatient (AIMS-O)
• Acquired Autism
• Acquired Dysgraphia
• Action Level Imitation
• Action on Objects
• Action Prediction in Autism
• Active-But-Odd Group
• Activities of Daily Living
• Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
• Activity Schedules
• Activity-Based Instruction
• Acuity
• Adapin
• Adaptive Behavior
• Adaptive Behavior Assessment System, Second Edition
• Adaptive Behavior Predicting Postschool Outcomes
• Adaptive Behavior Scales
• Adaptive Skills
• ADD
• Adderall
• Adding
• Addison-Schilder Disease
• ADHD
• ADHD Rating Scale
• ADHD=Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Adipocytokine
• ADI-R
• Adjustment
• Admission, Review, and Dismissal Committee (ARD Committee)
• Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Spontaneously Attending to Real-World Scenes: Use of a Change Blindness Paradigm
• ADOS
• ADOS-T
• Adrenaline
• Adrenoleukodystrophy
• Adult Follow-Up Studies
• Adult Repetitive Behaviors Questionnaire-2-Revised (RBQ-2A-R)
• Adult/Adolescent Sensory Profile (AASP)
• Adult-/Clinician-/Teacher-Directed Approaches
• Adulthood, Transition to
• Advocacy
• Affective Development
• Affective Disorders (Includes Mood and Anxiety Disorders)
• Affective Regulation
• Affixes
• Affliction
• Afghanistan and Autism
• AFLS
• Age Appropriate
• Age Equivalents
• Age of Onset
• Age of Recognition
• Age Period Cohort Analysis
• Agenesis of Corpus Callosum
• Ages and Stages Learning Activities
• Ages and Stages Questionnaire, Second Edition
• Agnosia
• Agraphia
• Aicardi Syndrome
• Aide
• AIMS
• Akathisia
• Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder
• ALD
• Aler-Cap [OTC]
• Aler-Dryl [OTC]
• Aler-Tab [OTC]
• Alexithymia
• Allele Similarity
• Allen, Doris
• Allergies
• AllerMax® [OTC]
• Aloof Group
• Alpha (a) Error
• Alpha-4 Beta-2 Nicotinic Agonists
• Alpha-7 Nicotinic Agonists
• Alpha-Amino Acid
• Alprazolam
• Altaryl [OTC]
• Alterations in Chromosome Structure or Number
• Alternative Communication
• Alternative Diagnostic Concepts
• Alti-Haloperidol
• Amantadine
• Ambien
• American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN)
• American Academy of Neurology
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
• American Board of Genetic Counseling
• American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
• American Medical Association
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Psychological Association
• American Sign Language (ASL)
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Functional Assessment of Communication Skills
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Amino Acid Disorders
• Amino Acids
• Aminoacidopathies, Disorders of
• Amitriptyline
• Amitriptyline Hydrochloride
• Amitryptiline
• Amphetamine
• Amygdala
• Amygdala-Prefrontal Network
• Amygdaloid Complex
• Anafranil
• Analog Condition Functional Analysis
• Analysis of Verbal Behavior (AVB)
• Analyst
• Analytic Processing
• Anatomy of Human Ear
• Androgens (Male Sex Hormones)
• Anecdotal Observation
• Anecdotal Record
• Angelman/Prader-Willi Locus
• Angelman/Prader-Willi Syndromes
• Anger Rumination in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Animal Models
• Anime, Manga, and the Etiology of Autism
• Annual Review
• Anorexia
• Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (A-B-C) Analysis
• Anterior Cingulate
• Antianxiety Medication
• Anticholinergic
• Anticholinesterase Inhibitors
• Anticipated Regression
• Anticonvulsants
• Antidepressant Medications
• Antidepressants
• Antiepileptic Drugs (AEDs)
• Antigluten Therapy
• Anti-Hist [OTC]
• Antihistamines: Definition
• Antipsychotic-Induced Dyskinesia
• Antipsychotics: Drugs
• Antiseizure Medications
• Antiyeast Therapy
• Anxiety
• Anxiety and Depression from Adolescence to Old Age in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Anxiety Disorders
• Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule (ADIS)
• Anxiolytic Drugs
• Anxiolytics
• Anxious Personality Disorder
• Anxiset E (India)
• APA Division 33 Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Apgar Score
• Aphasia
• Aphonia
• Apo-Haloperidol
• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
• Apprenticeships
• Appropriate Adaptation
• Appropriate Educational Placement
• Apraxia
• Apraxia of Speech (AOS)
• Arab Views on Autism
• Arciform Rhythm
• ARD Committee
• Argentina and Autism
• Aricept
• Ariclaim
• Aripiprazole
• Aristaless-Related Homeobox Gene
• Arlington Central School District v. Murphy 2006 (IDEA Not Authorizing Expert Evaluations)
• Arousal
• Art Therapy and Autism
• Articulation
• Articulation Disorders
• Articulatory Apraxia (or Dyspraxia)
• ARX
• ASAS
• ASAS-R: Australian Scale for Asperger’s Syndrome - Revised
• ASD
• ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
• ASD=Autism Spectrum Disorder
• ASDI
• ASHA FACS
• ASIEP-2
• ASPEN
• Asperger Syndrome
• Asperger Syndrome (AS)
• Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Interview
• Asperger Syndrome Epidemiology
• Asperger Syndrome Follow-Up Studies
• Asperger Syndrome Training & Employment Partnership (ASTEP)
• Asperger, Hans
• Asperger’s
• Asperger’s Disorder
• Aspire: The Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland
• ASQ Family Access
• ASQ Hub (for Monitoring Screening Programs of Multiple Organizations)
• ASQ Pro (for Single-Site Programs) and ASQ Enterprise (for Multisite Programs)
• ASQ:SE
• ASQ-3 Materials Kit
• ASQ-3™
• ASRS
• Assessing Quality of Life in Autism
• Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS)
• Assessment of Functional Living Skills (AFLS)
• Assessment, Curriculum Guide, and Skills Tracking
• Assistant
• Assistive Devices
• Associate
• Association for Retarded Citizens (Arc)
• Associative Learning
• Ataxia
• Ativan
• Atomoxetine
• Attachment
• Attachment Disorder
• Attention
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Attention Network Tests in ASD
• Attention Process Training (APT) Program
• Attention Tunnelling
• Attentional Disengagement
• Attribution of Mental States
• Attributions (First Order/Second Order)
• Atypical
• Atypical Antipsychotics
• Atypical Autism
• Audiovisual Media Content Preferences of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Audition
• Auditory Acuity
• Auditory Brain Area
• Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR)
• Auditory Brainstem Response, ABR
• Auditory Cortex
• Auditory Discrimination
• Auditory Evoked Potential (AEP)
• Auditory Integration Therapy
• Auditory Perceptual Disorder
• Auditory Potentials
• Auditory Processing
• Auditory Processing Disorder
• Auditory System
• Auditory Verbal Agnosia
• Auditory Verbal Learning
• Auditory Verbal Learning Test
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Device
• Augmentative and Assistive Technology
• Australia and Autism
• Australian Scale for Asperger’s Syndrome
• Autism
• Autism Acceptance and Mental Health
• Autism and Epilepsy
• Autism and the Caribbean
• Autism Behavior Checklist
• Autism Behavior Inventory (ABI)
• Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (CARES) Act of 2019 (Also Referred to as the “Autism CARES Act of 2019”)
• Autism Cymru
• Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised
• Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
• Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS): Toddler Module
• Autism Family Experience Questionnaire (AFEQ)
• Autism Family Experience Questionnaire (AFEQ), The
• Autism in Ecuador
• Autism in Higher Education: Access, Challenges, and Support Strategies
• Autism in the Courtroom
• Autism Policy
• Autism Research Priorities
• Autism Science Foundation
• Autism Screening Instrument for Educational Planning (ASIEP-2)
• Autism Screening Questionnaire (ASQ)
• Autism Services Center (ASC), Huntington, West Virginia
• Autism Society
• Autism Speaks
• Autism Spectrum Addendum (ASA)
• Autism Spectrum Addendum to the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule-Parent Interview
• Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder and PDA Traits
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Autism Spectrum Rating Scale
• Autism Theory
• Autism Traits and Parenting
• Autism: Social Communication Disorder
• Autism-Europe
• Autistic
• Autistic Disorder
• Autistic Regression
• Autistic Savants
• Autistic Spectrum Quotient (AQ-9)
• Autistic Traits and Auditory Discrimination Skills
• Autistic Traits in Prison Populations
• Autobiographical Memory
• Autobiographical Writings
• Autonomic Nervous System
• Autonomous Living
• Autonomy
• Autosomal Recessive Disorder
• AUTS18
• Aventyl Hydrochloride
• Aversive/Nonaversive Interventions
• AVLT
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• AXCAM
• Ayres, A. Jean
• Azaleptin
• B
• Babbling
• Babysitter Training Guide for Families with Individuals with ASD
• Bad Science
• Balovaptan
• Banophen™ [OTC]
• Banophen™ Anti-itch [OTC]
• Barbiturates
• Barnes Akathisia Scale
• Barriers and Facilitators that Prevent and Enable Physical Healthcare Services Access for Autistic Adults
• Barriers to and Facilitators of Successful Early School Transitions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Barriers to Formal Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults
• Basal Ganglia
• BASC-2
• BASC-3
• BASC-III
• Baseline
• Bayley Scales of Infants Development-II
• Bayley-III
• BCaBA
• BCBA
• BCBA-D
• BDQ
• Beate Hermelin
• Bed-Wetting
• Beery VMI
• Beery VMI Motor Coordination Test
• Beery VMI Visual Perception Test
• Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration
• Behavior
• Behavior Analysis
• Behavior Analyst Certification Board
• Behavior Assessment System for Children, 2nd Edition
• Behavior Development Questionnaire
• Behavior Modification
• Behavior Observation Scale
• Behavior Plan
• Behavior Rating Instrument for Autistic and Atypical Children (BRIAAC)
• Behavior Rating Scale (BRS)
• Behavior Rehearsal
• Behavior Summarized Evaluation-Revised (BSE-R)
• Behavior Therapy
• Behavioral Approaches
• Behavioral Artistry: The Relationship Between Interpersonal Skills and Effective Treatment Repertoires of Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners
• Behavioral Assessment
• Behavioral Assessment Scale of Oral Functions in Feeding
• Behavioral Curricula
• Behavioral Development Questionnaire
• Behavioral Disorder
• Behavioral Flexibility
• Behavioral Health Rehabilitation (BHR) Services
• Behavioral Momentum
• Behavioral Objective
• Behavioral Objectives
• Behavioral Skills Training
• Behavioral Specialist
• Behaviorally Based Social Skill Groups
• Behaviorism
• Behaviorist Theory
• Bell-Shaped Curve
• Benadryl
• Benadryl® Allergy [OTC]
• Benadryl® Allergy Quick Dissolve [OTC]
• Benadryl® Children’s Allergy [OTC]
• Benadryl® Children’s Allergy Fastmelt® [OTC]
• Benadryl® Children’s Allergy Perfect Measure™
• Benadryl® Children’s Allergy Quick Dissolve [OTC] [DSC]
• Benadryl® Children’s Dye-Free Allergy [OTC]
• Benadryl® Dye-Free Allergy [OTC]
• Benadryl® Itch Relief Extra Strength [OTC]
• Benadryl® Itch Stopping [OTC]
• Benadryl® Itch Stopping Extra Strength [OTC]
• Benchmark
• Benchmark Data
• Benchmarks
• Bender
• Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test II
• Bender, Lauretta
• Bender-Gestalt II
• Beneficiary
• Benhaven Residential Services
• Benzodiazepine
• Benzodiazepines
• Beta-Adrenergic Antagonist
• Beta-Adrenergic Blockers
• Beta-Alanyl-L-Histidine
• Bettelheim, Bruno
• Better OutcOmes and Successful Transitions for Autism (BOOST-A) Program, The
• BG-II
• Bias
• Bias in Assessment Instruments for Autism
• BIG-2
• Bilingualism and Language Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Biological Motion
• Biomarker Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Biomedical Engineer
• Birth Complications
• Birth Order
• Birth Order Effects in Autism
• Birth Rank Effect
• Birth-to-Three
• BITSEA
• BITSEA-ASD Subscales
• Blindness
• Blitz-Nick-Salaam Krampfe
• Block Design Subtest
• Blood-Oxygen-Level Dependence
• Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent (BOLD) Contrast
• Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent (BOLD) Signal
• Blum Study
• Board Certified Associate Behavior Analyst
• Body Movements, Imitation of
• Bogus Therapy
• Borderline Intellectual Functioning and Comprehensive Case Management
• BOS
• BOT-2
• BOTMP
• Bound Morphemes
• Brachmann-de Lange Syndrome
• Brain Connectivity Theories of Autism
• Brainstem Audiometry
• Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials
• Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER)
• Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response, BAER
• Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses in Autism (BAERs)
• Brainstem Evoked Response (BER)
• Brazil and Autism
• BRI (Behavior Regulation Index)
• BRIAAC
• BRIEF (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function)
• BRIEF (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions)
• Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA)
• Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC)
• Broader Autism Phenotype
• Broca’s Aphasia
• Brodmann’s Area 4
• Brodmann’s Areas
• BRS
• Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
• Bruxism
• BSE
• BSE-R
• Buckhannon Versus West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources: Definition of Prevailing Party
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Bullying
• Bupropion
• Buspar
• Buspirone
• C
• CABS
• California Verbal Learning Test, Children’s Version (CVLT-C)
• Callosotomy (Surgical Severing)
• Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery
• Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)
• Can’t Versus Won’t Dilemma
• Canada and Autism
• Canadian Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CCRC)
• Candidate Genes in Autism
• CANTAB
• Capgras Delusion
• Capgras Delusion Syndrome
• Capgras Syndrome
• Capute Scales (Along with Cognitive Adaptive Test)
• Care Pathway for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder on an Inpatient Psychiatric Service
• Caregiver Consent to a Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Research Registry
• Caregiver Training Program
• Carnosine
• CARS
• CARS, Second Edition, High-Functioning Version
• CARS, Second Edition, Questionnaire for Parents or Caregivers
• CARS, Second Edition, Standard Version
• CARS2-HF
• CARS2-QPC
• CARS2-ST
• Case Report
• Case Study
• Casein
• CASL
• CAT/CLAMS
• Catapres
• Catatonia
• CATCH 22 (Chromosome 22q11 Deletion Syndrome)
• Catecholamine System
• Catechol-O-Methyltransferase
• Category Fluency
• CAT-Q
• Caudate
• Caudate Nucleus
• Cause and Effect
• CBCL 1.5-5
• CBCL 6-18
• CCC-2
• CCPT
• CDCVH
• CDIs
• CdLS
• CDT
• Ceiling Effect
• CELF Preschool - 2
• CELF-5
• Center-Based Programs
• Central Auditory Processing Disorder
• Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
• Central Nervous System (CNS)
• Cerebellar Abnormalities in Autism
• Cerebellum
• Cerebral Cortex
• Cerebral Gigantism
• Cerebral Palsy
• Cerebroatrophic Hyperammonemia
• Cerebrospinal Fluid
• Cerebrospinal Fluid 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Homovanillic Acid
• Certified Rehabilitation Counselor
• Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC)
• CET
• Chaining
• Challenging Behavior
• Change Detection
• CHARGE Association
• CHARGE Syndrome
• Charter School
• CHAT
• CHD8
• Checklist for Autism in Toddlers
• Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT)
• Chelation
• Chess, Stella
• Child Abuse in Autism
• Child and Family Characteristics that Predict Clinic Appointment Attendance and Alignment with Providers
• Child and Family-Centered Intervention
• Child Behavior Checklist 1.5-5
• Child Behavior Checklist 6-18
• Child Behavior Checklist in Autism
• Child Language
• Child Psychotherapy
• Child-Centered Approaches
• Child-Focused Approaches
• Childhood Aphasia
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
• Childhood Autism
• Childhood Autism Rating Scale
• Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
• Childhood Psychosis
• Childhood Schizophrenia
• Childhood-Onset Pervasive Developmental Disorder
• Children with Autism in Foster Care
• Children’s Communication Checklist (CCC-2)
• Children’s Communication Checklist, Version 2
• Children’s Global Assessment Scale
• Children’s Psychiatric Rating Scale
• Children’s Social Behavior Questionnaire
• Children’s Unit for Treatment and Evaluation (State University of New York at Binghamton)
• Chile and Autism
• China and Autism
• Chlorpromazine
• Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride
• Cholinergic
• Cholinergic System
• Christopher Gillberg
• CHRNA7 Deletions
• Chromosomal Abnormalities
• Chromosome 15q11-q13
• Chronic Dyskinesia
• Chronic Hairpulling
• Chronological Age Appropriateness
• CII
• Cingulate Cortex
• Cingulum
• Cingulum Bundle
• Cipralex (Canada)
• Circle of Friends
• Circumstantial Thinking
• Circumstantiality
• c/s-N,W-Dimethyl-9-[3-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)- propylidene] thioxanthene-2-sulfonamide
• Citalopram
• Citrate and Autism
• Citric Acid
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• CLAMS
• Clancy Autism Behavior Scale
• Clancy Behavior Scale
• Class Versus Variable
• Classical Conditioning
• Classroom Aide
• Classroom Management
• Classroom Structure
• Client Assistance Program
• Client Emotional Processing Scale for Autism Spectrum
• Client Emotional Processing Scale for Autism Spectrum (CEPS-AS)
• Clinical Assessment
• Clinical Depression
• Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals: Preschool - Second Edition (CELF Preschool-2)
• Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale
• Clinical Psychology
• Clinical Significance
• Clinical Social Worker
• Clinician
• Clock Drawing
• Clock-Drawing Test
• Clomipramine
• Clomipramine (CMI) Hydrochloride
• Clonazepam: Definition
• Clonidine
• Clonidine ER
• Clonotril
• Clopine
• Clozapine
• Cluster Analysis
• Cluster Reports and Autism
• Cluttering
• CM-AT
• CNTN4
• CNTN4: Contactin 4
• CNVs
• Coaching Students with Autism
• Cochlea
• Codic (Verbal Behavior)
• Coefficient Alpha
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and ASD
• Cognitive Bias
• Cognitive Control Circuitry
• Cognitive Correlates of Reciprocity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Cognitive Delay
• Cognitive Enhancement Therapy
• Cognitive Flexibility
• Cognitive Measures
• Cognitive Rehabilitation
• Cognitive Remediation
• Cognitive Shifting
• Cognitive Skills
• Cohen Syndrome
• Cohen, Donald J.
• Cohort Studies
• Collaborative Consultation
• Collaborative Intervention
• Collaborative Program of Excellence in Autism
• Collaborative Teaming
• Collaborative Teaming Model
• Collateral Effects of Youth Disruptive Behavior Disorders on Mothers’ Psychological Distress: Intellectual Disability, or Typical Development
• College Transitional Programs
• Colossal Commissure
• Combat Disorder
• Combat Fatigue
• Combat Neurosis
• Comic Strip Conversations
• Comics
• Command
• Comment
• Commercial Hair Analysis
• Common Disease-Common Variant Hypothesis
• Common Disease-Rare Variant Hypothesis
• Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scale
• Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales - Developmental Profile
• Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales - Normed Edition (2003)
• Communication Assessment
• Communication Board
• Communication Disorder
• Communication Disorder/Communication Impairment
• Communication Impairments
• Communication Intention Inventory
• Communication Intentions
• Communication Interventions
• Communication Services
• Communicative Acquisition in ASD
• Communicative Act
• Communicative Development Inventories
• Communicative Functions
• Communicative Intent
• Community Services
• Community Sport
• Community Work Crew
• Community-Based Services
• Community-Based Work Team
• Community-Integrated Residential Services for Adults with Autism
• Comorbid ASD
• Comorbidity
• Comparison of Diagnostic Instruments for ASD
• Comparison of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• COMPASS for Hope Training Program
• Competitive Employment
• Complete Agenesis
• Complete Exhaustion
• Components of Advance Theory of Mind in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Compoz® Nighttime Sleep Aid [OTC]
• Comprehension
• Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language
• Comprehensive Transition Program
• Compulsiveness
• Computed Axial Tomography (CAT)
• Computed Tomography
• Computer-Assisted Instruction to Teach Academic Skills
• Computer-Based Intervention Assistive Technology
• COMT
• Conceptually Accurate Signed English (CASE)
• Conduct Disorder
• Confidentiality
• Confirmatory Factor Analysis
• Congenital Aphasia
• Congenital Disorders
• Congenital Metabolic Diseases
• Conners’ Continuous Performance Test
• Conners’ Parent Rating Scale
• Conners’ Teacher Rating Scale
• Consent
• Consequence-Based Interventions
• Conservatorship
• Conservatorship (Full Conservatorship and Limited Conservatorship)
• Constipation
• Consulting Teacher
• Contactin-Associated Protein 2
• Contingencies of Reinforcement
• Contingency Contracting
• Continuous Data Collection
• Continuous Measurement
• Continuous Recording
• Control
• Controlled Oral Word Association
• Controlling Prompt
• Conversational Discourse
• Conversational Manner
• Convulsion
• Co-occurring ASD
• Cooing
• Cooperative Groups
• Copy Number Variation
• Co-regulation
• Corneal Reflex
• Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
• Corpus Callosum
• Corpus Callosum Abnormalities in Autism
• Correlation
• Correlational
• Cortex
• Cortical Deafness
• Cortical Language Areas
• Cortical Remapping
• Cortical Rewiring
• Cortisol, Serum
• Counterfeit Deviance
• Course of Development
• Course of Social Avoidance in Fragile X Syndrome, The
• Court Decision (ASD Related)
• COVID-19 and Its Impact on Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• CP
• CPEP-3
• CPRS
• CPT
• CPT-II
• Craniofacial Microsomia
• Craniognomy
• Craniology
• Cranioscopy
• Creak, Mildred
• Creativity
• Criminality, Interactions with Law Enforcement, and Potential Correlates of Juvenile Justice Involvement Among Youth with Autism
• Criterion
• Criterion Referenced Assessment
• Criterion-Referenced Assessment
• Criterion-Referenced Testing
• Criterion-Referenced Tests
• Critical Autism Studies
• Cronbach’s Alpha
• Cross Eye
• Cross-Training
• Crystallized Intelligence
• CSBQ (Children’s Social Behavior Questionnaire)
• CSBS
• CSBS-DP
• CSF
• CSF 5-HIAA
• CSF HVA
• CT
• Culturally Responsive Assessment of Language and the Challenge Within Standardized Tests
• Culturally Sensitive Social Competence Training Program for Chinese High-Functioning Adolescents with ASD, A
• Culture and Autism
• Cumulative Incidence
• Cumulative Risk
• Curriculum
• Curvature of the Spine
• Custodial Grandparents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• CVLT - Children’s Version
• CVLTC
• CVLT-C
• Cyclohexitol
• Cylert
• Cymbalta
• D
• Daily Activities
• Daily Living Skills
• Daily Routines
• Daily Self-Care Activities
• DAISI
• DAMP
• DAMP Syndrome
• D-Amphetamine
• DAP:IQ
• DAS
• DAS-II
• D-Cycloserine: Definition
• DDST
• de Lange Syndrome
• Deaf-Blind
• Deafness
• Deborah Fein
• Declarative Memory
• Decoding Skills
• Deep Pressure Proprioception Touch Technique
• Deficits in Attention, Motor Control, and Perception
• Definition: Metaphor
• DeGangi-Berk
• DeGangi-Berk Test of Sensory Integration
• Deictic Terms
• Deixis
• DEL22q13.3 (Entrez Gene, OMIM, Uniprot)
• Delaware Autism Program
• Delay, Deviance Versus
• Delayed Echolalia
• Delusion of Doubles
• Delusion of Duplicates
• Delusion of Negative Doubles
• Delusion of Substitution
• Delusional Hypoidentification
• DELV-NR
• Demand
• Demographics and the Age of Autism Diagnosis
• Dendrite
• Dendritic Cells and Their Expression of Costimulatory Molecules in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Dental Care
• Denver Development Screening Test (DDST)
• Denver II
• Denzapine
• Deoxyribonucleic Acid
• Depade
• Depakene
• Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
• Depressive Disorder
• Depressive Disorders
• Derailment
• Dermamycin® [OTC]
• Dermatoglyphic Patterns
• Descriptive Research
• Desensitization
• Desipramine
• Desyrel
• Detection of Autism by Infant Sociability Interview
• Detriment in Skill
• Developing Countries and Autism
• Developmental Apraxia
• Developmental Apraxia of Speech (DAS)
• Developmental Change
• Developmental Continuum (Principles of TEACCH)
• Developmental Coordination Disorder
• Developmental Delay
• Developmental Disabilities
• Developmental Disabilities - Children’s Global Assessment Scale (DD-CGAS)
• Developmental Disability (Ontario)
• Developmental Disability (Ontario), Mental Retardation (Former Term)
• Developmental Dyscalculia
• Developmental Dysphasia
• Developmental Dyspraxia
• Developmental Intervention Model
• Developmental Language Delay/Disorder
• Developmental Language Disorder
• Developmental Milestones
• Developmental Reading Disorder
• Developmental Right-Hemisphere Syndrome
• Developmental Shifts Across Lifespan
• Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration
• Developmental Verbal Apraxia (or Dyspraxia)
• Developmental, Dimensional, and Diagnostic Interview (3Di)
• Developmental, Psychiatric, and Genetic Profiles of the 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
• Developmentally Appropriate Practice
• Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)
• Developmental-Pragmatic Approaches/Strategies
• Deviant Sexual Behavior
• Dexamfetamine
• Dexedrine
• Dextroamphetamine
• Diagnosis
• Diagnosis and Classification
• Diagnosis of Autism with Low Mental Age
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5)
• Diagnostic Behavioral Assessment for Autism Spectrum Disorders-Revised (DiBAS-R)
• Diagnostic Boundaries of Autism
• Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation (DELV-Norm Referenced)
• Diagnostic Instruments in Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders
• Diagnostic Interviews
• Diagnostic Overshadowing
• Diagnostic Process
• Diagnostic Substitution
• Diastat
• Diazepam
• DiBAS-R Validation
• Dichotic Listening
• Didactic Approaches
• Differential Ability Scales
• Differential Ability Scales (DAS and DAS-II)
• Differential Reinforcement
• Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Responding (DRL)
• Differential Reinforcement Procedures of Alternative Behavior (DRA/DRAlt) of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
• Differential Reinforcement Procedures of Other Behavior (DRO)
• Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• DiGeorge Syndrome
• Digital, Block-Based Coding of Robots for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Digitigrade Gait
• Dimensional Versus Categorical Classification
• Dimethylglycine
• Diminished Capacity
• Diminished Responsibility
• Diphen [OTC]
• Diphenhist® [OTC]
• Diphenhydramine
• Diphenhydramine HCl
• DIR Model (Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship Based): A Parent-Mediated Mental Health Approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders, The
• Direct Instruction
• Direct Observation
• Direct Observation Scales
• Directive Play Therapy
• Disability
• DISCO
• Discontinuous Data Collection
• Discontinuous Measurement
• Discourse Management
• Discrete Versus Continuous
• Discretionary Trust
• Discrimination
• Discrimination Training
• Discriminative Stimulus
• Disfluency
• Disguised Mands
• Disinhibited Attachment Disorder
• Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
• Disintegrative Disorder
• Disorder of Executive Dysfunction
• Disordered Attachment
• Disparities Among African Americans with Autism
• Disparities in ASD Diagnosis
• Dispute Resolution Procedures
• Disruptive Behavior
• Dissocial Behavior
• Distributed Practice
• Distribution-Free Statistics
• Divalproex
• Divalproex Sodium (Depakote, Depakote ER/CP)
• Dizygotic (DZ) Twins
• D-KEFS
• DMG
• DNA
• Domenic Cicchetti
• Dominance, Cerebral
• DONEP
• Donepezil: Definition
• Dopamine
• Dormicum
• Dorsal Medial-Frontal Cortex
• Double Empathy
• Double-Blind Study
• Douglass Development Disabilities Center
• Down Syndrome
• Down’s Syndrome
• Doxepin
• Drama and Autism
• Draw-a-Person Intellectual Ability Test for Children, Adolescents, and Adults
• Driving Hazard Perception in ASD
• DSM-5
• DSM-5 and Autism Spectrum Disorder
• DSM-III
• DSM-III-R
• DSM-IV
• DSM-IV Field Trial
• Duane, Alexander
• Due Process
• Dulane
• Duloxetine: Definition
• Duplic (Verbal Behavior)
• Duplin
• Durability of Treatment Effects
• Duzela
• Dysarthria
• Dyscalculia
• Dyschezia
• Dysexecutive Syndrome
• Dysfluency
• Dysgenesis (Malformation)
• Dysgraphia
• Dyslexia
• Dysphasia
• Dysphoria
• Dyspraxia
• Dystaxia
• Dysthymia
• Dystonia
• Dytan™
• E
• Early Childhood Tutor
• Early Diagnosis
• Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI)
• Early Intervention
• Early Language Milestone Scale
• Early Language Milestone Scale-2
• Early Literacy
• Early Multiword Utterances
• Early School Beginnings
• Early Social Communication
• Early Social-Communication Scales (ESCS)
• Early Stanford-Binet, Fifth Edition (Early SB5)
• Early Start Denver Model
• Early-Life Exposure to Antibiotics and Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Eating Disorders
• ECHO Autism STAT
• Echolalia
• Ecological Inventory
• Ecological Model
• Ecological Model of Autism
• Ecological Validity
• ECT
• EDI
• Edinburgh Handedness Inventory
• Education
• Education as Therapy
• Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (PL94-14 L)
• Educational Assistant
• Educational Interventions
• Educational Psychology
• Educational Psychotherapy
• Educational Testing
• Educational Therapy
• EEG Abnormalities as a Biomarker of Severity in ASD
• EEG Anomalies
• EEG Connectivity During Social Engagement in Autism
• EEG Discharges
• Effect of Visual Information on Postural Control in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Effectiveness of a SCERTS Intervention
• Effectiveness of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Effects of Social Stimuli on Postural Responses
• Effexor
• Effexor XR
• Efficacy
• Efficacy of Group-Based Organized Physical Activity Participation for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Efficacy of Peer Network Interventions
• Efficiency (Behavioral Assessment)
• Effort (Behavioral Assessment)
• Egypt and Autism
• EHI
• EI
• Eisenberg, Leon
• Elated, Euphoric and Grandiose
• Elavil (Amitriptyline)
• Elderly with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Elective Mutism
• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Electroencephalography
• Electrophysiology
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind)
• Elevated, Expansive, or Irritable Mood
• Elgar, Sybil
• Eligibility (for Services Under IDEA/ADA, etc.)
• ELM Scale-2
• Elopement
• ELS
• ELS Checklist
• Emancipatory Autism Studies
• Embedded Figures Test (EFT)
• Emergency Department Utilization and Autism
• Emergent Literacy
• Emergent Literacy Skills of Preschoolers with Autism
• Emotion and Decision-Making
• Emotion Awareness and Skills Enhancement (EASE) Program
• Emotion Coregulation Processes Between Parents and Their Children with ASD
• Emotion Dysregulation Inventory
• Emotion Recognition
• Emotion Regulation
• Emotion Regulation Strategies in Preschoolers with Autism
• Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Processing in ASD
• Emotional Regulation
• Emotional Synchrony
• Emotionally Withdrawn/Inhibited Attachment Disorder
• Emotion-Focused Therapy for Autism Spectrum
• Empathizing-Systemizing Theory
• Empathy
• Empirically Supported Treatments
• Employ
• Employee Development
• Employee Performance
• Employment
• Employment Consultant
• Employment in Adult Life
• Employment of Adults with ASD: A Motivational Perspective
• Employment Readiness Skills
• Employment Services
• Employment Specialist
• Employment Trends for People with ASD
• Enactive Mind
• Enactive Mind Hypothesis
• Encephalography
• Enclave
• Encopresis
• Endep
• Endep (Amitriptyline)
• Endocrine
• Endophenotypes
• England and Autism
• Enhanced Perceptual Functioning
• Entrepreneurial Model
• Entrepreneurial Supports
• Enuresis
• Environmental Engineering/Modifications
• Environmental Risk Factors for Autism
• EPF Model
• Epicanthal Fold
• Epicanthic Fold
• Epicanthus
• Epidemiology
• Epigenetic Mechanisms
• Epilepsy
• Epilepsy and Autism
• Epileptiform Abnormalities
• Epinephrine
• Episodic Memory
• Epistasis
• Equilibrium
• Equinus Gait
• Equivalence-Based Instruction (EBI)
• ER
• ERN
• Error Correction
• Error of Measurement
• Error-Related Negativity
• Erythrocyte Glutathione Peroxidase
• Escape Extinction
• Escape Training
• Escitalopram
• ESCS
• ESP
• Establishing Operations
• Estate Planning
• Estrogens (Female Sex Hormones)
• Ethics
• Ethiopia and Autism
• Ethnography
• Evaluation of a Transition to University Program for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Evaluation of Sensory Processing
• Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Event-Related Potential
• Event-Related Potential (ERP)
• Everyday Memory
• Evoked Potentials
• Evoked Response
• EVT-2
• Exactingness
• Example, Demonstration
• Exceptionality
• Executive Function (EF)
• Executive Functioning and Martial Arts Training in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Executive Functions
• Executive Functions, Social Impairment, Friendship Quality, and Adjustment in HFA with ASD
• Exercise
• Exercise in Autism
• Experimental Research
• Explicit Memory
• Exploratory Factor Analysis
• Exploratory Play
• Expressive Communication
• Expressive Dysphasia
• Expressive Language
• Expressive Language Delay
• Expressive Language Disorder
• Expressive Vocabulary Test II
• Extended School Year
• External Validity
• Extinction Procedures
• Extraordinary
• Extreme Demand Avoidance
• Extreme Male Brain (EMB) Theory
• Eye Contact
• Eye Gaze
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy in Children and Adults with Autism
• Eyeblink Reflexes
• Eyes Test
• Eye-to-Eye Gaze
• Eye-Tracking
• F
• Face Blindness
• Face Perception
• Face Processing in Autism: Active Avoidance of the Eyes Versus Passive Indifference
• Face Processing Tests
• Face Recognition
• Face Tests
• Face Validity
• Facial Imitation
• Facial Inversion Effect
• Facial Recognition Tests
• Facilitated Communication
• Faciogenital Dysplasia
• Fact Memory
• Factor Analysis
• Factor Mixture Modeling
• Factors Affecting Outcome
• Factors Affecting Outcomes
• Fading
• FAFSA
• False Positive
• False-Belief Task
• Family Accommodation in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Family Burden
• Family Therapy
• Family-Centered Care, Second Edition
• Family-Centered Practice
• Family-Centered Programming
• Fanatrex
• FAST (Functional Assessment Screening Tool)
• FAS-Test
• FazaClo
• FBA
• Fear
• Febrile Convulsions
• Febrile Seizures
• Fecal Impaction
• Fecal Incontinence
• Federal Rules of Evidence
• Feedback Error-Related Negativity (fERN)
• Feedback on Provider Work Performance
• Feedback-Related Negativity
• Feeding Disorder
• Feeding Problems
• Feingold Diet
• Fenfluramine
• Feral Children
• Ferster, C.B.
• Fetal Alcohol Effects
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Fetal Anticonvulsant Syndrome
• Fetal Antiepileptic Drug Syndrome (Fetal AED Syndrome)
• Fetal Carbamazepine Syndrome
• Fetal Phenytoin Syndrome
• Fetal Valproate Syndrome (FVS)
• Fidelity of Implementation
• Figurative Language
• Figure-Ground Discrimination
• Figures of Speech
• Financial Aid
• Fine Motor Development
• Finger Oscillation Test
• Finger-Tapping Test
• Finite Mixture Models
• First “Period”
• First Responders and Autism
• First Words Project
• Fixed Interval
• Fixed Ratio
• Flat Prosody
• Flexibility
• Flight of Ideas
• Floor Effect
• Floor Time/Circle of Communication
• Fludac
• Fluency and Fluency Disorders
• Fluent Aphasia
• Fluent Speech
• Fluid Intelligence
• Fluid Reasoning
• Fluoxetine
• Fluoxin
• Flutine
• Fluvoxamine
• Fluvoxamine Maleate
• Fluxil
• fMRI
• Fontex
• Food Intolerance
• Forced-Choice Preference Assessment
• Formal Complaint
• FOT
• France and Autism
• Fraternal Twins
• Fred R. Volkmar
• Free Appropriate Public Education
• Free Recall
• Free-Operant Preference Assessment
• Friendship Satisfaction in Children with ASD
• Friendships
• Froidir
• Frontal Lobe Findings in Autism
• Frontal Lobe Functions
• Frontal Lobe Syndrome
• Frontostriatal Disorder
• FTT
• Full Physical Prompt
• Functional Analysis
• Functional Analysis Screening Tool
• Functional Analysis: Assessment Procedures for Complex Challenging Behavior
• Functional Assessment
• Functional Assessment and Curriculum for Teaching Everyday Routines
• Functional Assessment Screening Tool (FAST)
• Functional Behavior Assessment
• Functional Behavior-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior in Children with ASD
• Functional Communication Training
• Functional Connectivity
• Functional Ecological Approach
• Functional Goals
• Functional Integration
• Functional Life Skills
• Functional Living Skills
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Functional MRI
• Functional Play
• Functional Routines (FR), Teaching
• Functional Speech
• Functionally Equivalent Alternative Behavior
• Fusiform Gyrus (FG)
• G
• Gabapentin
• Gabarone
• GAD
• Games with Rules
• Gaming Technologies in Rehabilitation of Individuals with Autism
• Gamma-Aminobutyric Agonist
• Ganglioside Lipidosis
• Gangliosidoses
• GARS
• GARS-2
• Gastrointestinal Disorders and Autism
• GAUTENA Autism Society
• Gaze
• GEC (Global Executive Composite)
• Gelotophobia and Autism
• Genahist™ [OTC]
• Gender Differences
• Gender Dysphoria and Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Gene Regulatory Networks in Autism
• General Anxiety
• General Case Analysis
• General Case Model
• General Case Programming (GCP)
• General Case Teaching, General Case Instruction
• General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12)
• General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12)
• Generalization and Maintenance
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Generative Complexity
• Generativity
• Genetic Disorders
• Genetics
• Genome-wide Association
• Geodon
• Geodon (Ziprasidone)
• Geri Dawson
• German Measles
• Germany and Autism
• Gesell, Arnold
• Gestural Imitation
• Gesture Form and Function in ASD
• Gestures
• GI Issues
• Giftedness
• Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
• Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (GARS)
• Gilliam Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition
• Gilliam Autism Rating Scale, Third Edition
• Girls Night Out Model, The
• Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire (GSQ)
• Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership (GRASP)
• Global Aphasia
• Global Versus Local Processing
• Globus Pallidus
• Glu
• Glutamate
• Glutamatergic
• Gluten-Free Diet
• Goal Attainment of Students with ASD Using COMPASS
• Goldenhar Syndrome
• Grammar
• Grammatical Morphemes
• Grand Mal Seizure
• Grandin, Temple
• Grandma’s Rule
• Grants
• Gray Matter
• Gray Substance
• Gross Motor Skills
• Group Research
• Group Therapy
• Group Work and Class Discussions
• Group-Based Early Start Denver Model (G-ESDM)
• Group-Based Organized Sport
• Growth Mixture Modeling
• GSH-Px1 and Glutathione Hydrogen-Peroxide Oxido-reductase
• Guanfacine
• Guardianship
• Guided Compliance
• H
• H1 Receptor Antagonist
• H1 Receptor Inverse Agonist
• Habit Reversal
• Hair Analysis
• Hair Mineral Analysis
• Hair Trace Metal Analysis
• Halcion
• Haldol™
• Haloperidol
• Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery
• Handicaps, Behavior and Skills Schedule (HBSS)
• Hand-Over-Hand Assistance
• Handwriting Difficulty
• Hanen Approach
• Harris, Sandra
• Hate Crimes/Victimization
• Hatred of Sound
• Hay Fever
• HBSS
• HEA 2008
• Health Disparities
• Health Inequalities
• Health Inequity
• Healthcare Transition for Individuals with Autism
• Hearing
• Hearing Sensitivity
• Hearing System
• Hearing Threshold
• Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
• Heart-Hand Syndrome
• Heller, Theodore
• HELSNF1
• Hemifacial Microsomia
• Hemispheric Dominance
• Hemispheric Lateralization
• Hemispheric Specialization
• Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley (Provision of What Is an Appropriate Program)
• Heritage Language Use for Intervention in Autism
• HFDT
• Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA)
• High-Functioning Autism (HFA)
• High-Functioning Autism Diagnostic Interview
• High-Probability Requests
• High-Throughput Sequencing
• Hippocampus
• Hippotherapy
• Histaprin [OTC]
• Histidinemia
• History of Autism as a Diagnostic Concept
• Hoarding in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Holliday Willey, Liane
• Home Living Skills
• Home Schooling in Autism
• Home-Based Programs
• Homework/Assignments, Modifications
• Homework/Assignments, Modifying
• Horizant
• Hormone
• HRB
• Hug Machine
• Human Figure Drawing Tests
• Human or Animal Motion
• Hydramine [OTC] [DSC]
• Hydrocortisone
• Hyperactivity Syndrome
• Hyperkinetic Disorders
• Hyperlexia
• Hyperresponsiveness
• Hyperserotonemia
• Hypo-arousal
• Hypogenesis (Partial Formation)
• Hypoplasia (Underdevelopment)
• Hyporesponsiveness
• Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
• Hypotonia
• I
• IBSE
• ICD 10 Research Diagnostic Guidelines
• Iceland and Autism
• Icon
• Iconic Systems
• Identical Twins
• Idioglossia
• Idiopathic Toe Walking
• Idiosyncratic Language
• IEP Matrix: Manuscript
• IEP Signature Page
• IJA/RJA Skills
• ILAUGH Model
• Illusion des sosies
• Imagination
• Imipramine
• Imitation
• Imitation of Intransitive Actions
• Imitation of Nonmeaningful Gestures
• Imitative Speech
• Immediate Echolalia
• Immigrant Status (Epidemiological Studies)
• Impact of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender on Social and Behavioral Ratings Within the ADOS
• Inactive
• Inborn Errors of Metabolism
• Incapacity
• Incidence
• Incidence Density
• Incidence Rate
• Incidental Emotional Processing
• Incidental Teaching
• Inclusion
• Inclusion of Adolescents with ASD in Community Sporting Clubs
• Inclusion Specialist
• Independence
• Independent Living
• Independent Variable Measurement
• Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn)
• India and Autism
• Indicator
• Indiscriminate Friendliness
• Indiscriminate Sociability
• Indiscriminate Social Behavior
• Indiscriminately Social/Disinhibited Attachment Disorder
• Individual Appropriates
• Individual Education Plan
• Individualized Education Program (IEP) Team
• Individualized Family Service Plan
• Individualized Family Services Plan (IFSP) Team
• Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE)
• Individualized Transition Plan (ITP)
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
• Infant Toddler Checklist
• Infant/Toddler Checklist
• Infantile Autism
• Infantile Myoclonic Epilepsy
• Infantile Spasms Syndrome
• Infantile Spasms/West Syndrome
• Infantile Subacute Necrotizing Encephalopathy
• Infants with Autism
• Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA)
• Inferior Colliculi
• Inferior Parietal Area
• Inferior Parietal Gyrus
• Inferior Temporal Area
• Inferior Temporal Gyrus
• Inflection
• Informal Assessment
• Information Processing Speed
• Informed Consent
• Inherited Metabolic Diseases
• Initial Communication Processes Scale
• Initiating Behavior Regulation
• Initiating Behavioral Requests (IBR)
• Initiating/Responding to Joint Attention Skills (IJA/RJA)
• Initiation of Communication
• Initiation of Joint Attention
• Injuries in Children with ASD
• Innate Reflexes
• Inner Ear
• Inositol: Definition
• Inspection Time
• “Instruction, Modelling, Rehearsal, and Feedback,” BST
• Instructional Assistant
• Instructional Objectives
• Instrumental Conditioning
• Instrumental Learning
• Integrated Play Groups (IPG) Model
• Integration
• Intellectual Developmental Disorder
• Intellectual Disability
• Intellectual Disability (ID)
• Intellectual Impairment
• Intellectualization of Affect
• Intellectualization of Emotion
• Intelligence Norms
• Intelligence Quotient
• Intelligence Tests (see Specific Tests)
• Intentional
• Intentional Communication
• Interactive Trauma Scale
• Interdisciplinary Assessment and Intervention
• Interdisciplinary Team
• Interests, Circumscribed/All Absorbing
• Interhemispheric White Matter Tract
• Internalization of Emotion Co-regulatory Support in Children with ASD
• Internet Safety
• Interoception
• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpersonal Supports
• Interval
• Intervention Activity
• Intervention Integrity
• Intervention Targets and Strategies that Are Related to Increased Quality of Life Outcomes
• Interventions for Increasing Acceptance of New Foods
• Interventions to Support Transition to Adulthood for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Interventions: Child Centered Approaches
• Interview-Informed Synthesized Contingency Analysis (IISCA)
• Intestinal Permeability Studies
• Intimate Relationships and Dating
• Intonation
• Intraventricular Hemorrhage
• Intraverbals
• Introduction to the Delis Kaplan Executive Function System
• Intuitive Thought
• Intuniv
• Inventory of Interpersonal Situations (IIS)
• Inversion Effect
• Iodothyronine Deiodinase (D2T3)
• IPSyn
• IQ
• IQ test
• IRR: Inter-rater Reliability
• Irreversible Dyskinesia
• Irritability in Autism
• Israel and Autism
• Italy and Autism
• ITC
• Item Analysis
• Item Response Theory
• Itinerant Teacher
• ITS
• J
• Japan and Autism
• JASPER
• Job Carving
• Job Coach
• Job Counselor
• Job Development
• Job Readiness
• Joint Attention
• Joubert Syndrome
• Joubert-Boltshauser Syndrome
• Judgments
• Justice
• Juvenile Subacute Necrotizing Encephalopathy
• K
• KABC-II
• Kanner, Leo
• Kanner’s Autism
• Kapvay
• Karyotype
• Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition
• Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test
• Kazakhstan and Autism
• KBIT-2
• Keppra
• KIAA1650
• Kinesthetic Sense
• Klinefelter Syndrome
• Klonopin
• Klozapol
• Kolvin, Israel (Issy)
• KS
• Kuwait and Autism
• L
• Label
• LAD
• L-Adrenalin
• Lag Schedules
• Lamictal (lamotrigine)
• Lamotrigine
• Language
• Language Acquisition
• Language Acquisition Device
• Language Barriers Impact on Access to Services
• Language Comprehension
• Language Comprehension Disorder/Impairment/Disability
• Language Cortex
• Language Development Survey
• Language Disorder
• Language Impairment/Disorder
• Language Interventions
• Language Organ
• Language Outcome Measures
• Language Processing
• Language Style
• Language Tests
• Language Understanding
• Language Use
• Language Variation
• Language/Autistic Regression
• Language-Based Learning Disability
• Latency
• Latency of Response
• Latency, Second Edition
• Latent Class Analysis
• Latent Profile Analysis
• Latent Time
• Latent Variable Modeling
• Late-Onset Dyskinesia
• Law
• Law Enforcement Agencies and Autism
• Law Enforcement Knowledge of Autism
• Lawson, Wendy
• LDS
• Lead Exposure and Autism
• Lead Poisoning
• Leaky Gut Syndrome
• Learned Helplessness
• Learning Disabilities
• Learning Disability
• Learning Disability (UK)
• Learning Disability (United Kingdom)
• Learning Disorder
• Learning Disorders
• Learning Experiences, an Alternative Program for Preschoolers and Their Parents (LEAP)
• Learning Language Through Overhearing in Children with ASD
• Learning Styles
• Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
• Lebanon and Autism
• Legal Competency
• Legal System
• Legal System Involvement
• Leigh Disease
• Leigh Necrotizing Encephalopathy
• Leigh Syndrome
• Leigh’s Disease
• Leisure Participation Patterns for School-Age Youth with Autism
• Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised (Leiter-R)
• Leiter-R
• L-Epinehphrine
• L-Epinephrine
• Leponex
• Letter Fluency
• Letter of Intent
• Lettick, Amy L. (1921-2017)
• Levate
• Levetiracetam: Definition
• Levo-Methylaminoethanolcatechol
• Levoreninum
• Lexam
• Lexamil
• Lexapro
• Lexicon
• Liability
• Licensed Behavior Analyst
• Life Satisfaction in Autism
• Life Skills
• Life Skills Classroom
• Limbic System
• Limited Interests
• Linear Regression
• Linguistic Idiosyncrasies and Neologisms
• Linguistics of Verbal English (LOVE)
• Linotril
• Listening Comprehension
• Literacy
• Lithium
• Lithium Carbonate
• Lithium Citrate
• Litigation, Parent-Initiated
• Little Brain
• Little’s Disease
• Living Arrangements in Adulthood
• Local Educational Agency
• Local Educational Authority
• Locus Ceruleus
• Lofexidine
• Longitudinal
• Longitudinal Research in Autism
• Loose Associations
• Lorazepam
• Lord, Cathy
• Loss of Voice
• Lovaas Approach
• Lovaas, O. Ivar
• Lovan
• Low Registration
• Low-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Low-Tech System
• Low-Technology Device
• Loxapine
• Loxitane
• L-Tryptophan
• Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery
• Luvox
• Luvox CR
• Luxembourg and Autism
• Lyodrin
• Lysosomal Lipid Storage Disorder
• M
• MABC
• MABC-2
• MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, Second Edition
• Macedonia and Autism
• Macrocephaly Phenotype and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Macrographia
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
• Magnetoencephalography
• Mainstreaming
• Maintenance of Treatment Effects
• Major Depression
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Maladaptive Behavior
• Male Turner
• Mand Fluency Training
• Mands
• Mania
• Manual Sign
• Manually Coded English (MCE)
• Marker
• Marketed as Geodon
• MAS
• Massed Practice
• Massive Infantile Spasms
• Massively Parallel Sequencing
• Mast Cells and Autism
• Mastocyte
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau
• Maternal Hypothyroidism and Autism
• Maternal Obesity and ASD Risk
• Maternal Opioid Prescription in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Mathematics Disability
• May Institute, Second Edition
• M-CHAT
• MCT
• Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
• Measles and Autism
• Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccination
• Measure
• Measurement Error
• Measuring Language Change Through Natural Language Samples
• MECP2 Gene
• Medial Frontal Negativity (MFN)
• Medial Temporal Lobe
• Medicaid and Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Medical Conditions Associated with Autism
• Medical Education on Autism
• Medical Evaluation in Autism
• Medical Home and ASD
• Medulla
• Medulla Oblongata
• Mellaril
• Mellaril-S
• Memantine
• Memory
• Memory Assessment
• Memory Development
• Memory for Future Actions
• Memory for Intentions
• Menarche
• Meningitis
• Meningococcal Disease: A Specific Form of Meningitis that Is Caused by the Bacteria Neisseria meningitidis
• Mental Age
• Mental Flexibility
• Mental Health and ASD
• Mental Health Interventions
• Mental Health Practitioner
• Mental Representation
• Mental Retardation
• Merycism
• Mesencephalon
• Mesibov, Gary
• Mesoridazine
• Mesoridazine Besylate
• Messages
• Metabolic Testing
• Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
• Metacognition in Autism
• Metallothionein
• Metaphoric Language
• Methyl CpG-Binding Protein 2
• Methylphenidate
• Mexico and Autism
• M-FUN
• MI (Metacognition Index)
• Microcephalic
• Microcephalus
• Microcephaly
• Micrographia
• Midazolam
• Midbrain
• Midbrain Raphe
• Midbrain Raphe Nuclei
• Middle Ear Infection
• Milestone
• Milestones
• Milieu Teaching
• Military Families with Children with Autism
• Milk Protein
• Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP)
• Miller Function and Participation Scales
• Mind Reading
• Mindblindness
• Mindfulness Therapy for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Mindfulness-Based Therapy/Intervention
• Mineral Treatments
• Minimal Brain Damage
• Minimal Brain Dysfunction
• Minimal Speech Approach
• Mirror Mechanisms
• Mirror Neuron System
• Mirror Neurons
• Mirtazapine
• Mismatch Negativity
• Misophonia
• Mitochondrial Deficits/Disorders
• Mixture Modeling
• MLD
• Moban
• Mobile Work Crew Model
• Mobius Syndrome
• Modeling
• Modification
• Modifications
• Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT)
• Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised: Spanish Cultural Validation
• Modified Testing
• Modifier Genes and Autism Susceptibility
• Modifier Loci
• Moebius Syndrome
• Moldova and Autism
• Molindone
• Monotone
• Monotonic Voice
• Monotropism: An Interest-Based Account of Autism
• Monozygotic (MZ) Twins
• Mood Disorder
• Mood Disorders
• Mood Stabilizers
• Moral Cognition
• More Than Words
• Moro Reflex
• Morocco and Autism
• Mortality
• Motivating Operation
• Motivation
• Motivation Assessment Scale
• Motor Control
• Motor Cortex
• Motor Development Assessment
• Motor Planning
• Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition
• Movement Assessment Battery for Children: Second Edition (MABC-2)
• Movie and TV Depictions of Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Movie Talk
• MSEL:AGS
• MTL
• Mu Rhythm
• Mullen Scales of Early Learning
• Mullen Scales of Early Learning, American Guidance Service Edition
• Multidisciplinary Evaluation
• Multidisciplinary Team
• Multidisciplinary Training (TEACCH Component)
• Multihandicapped
• Multilocus Genetic Models
• Multiple Complex (or Multiplex) Developmental Disorder
• Multiple Exemplar Instruction (MEI)
• Multiple Exemplar Training
• Multiple Exemplar Video Modeling and Unscripted Social Communication
• Multiple Phenotypes Associated with Disruption of a Single Gene
• Multiple Regression
• Multiple Stimulus with Replacement (MSW) Preference Assessment
• Multiple Stimulus Without Replacement (MWSO) Preference Assessment
• Multiplex-Simplex Comparisons
• Multi-skilling
• MUSAD
• Music Therapy
• Music-Based Scale for Autism Diagnostics (MUSAD) Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disability
• Music-Evoked Emotion
• Mutual Gaze
• Mutual Regulation
• Mutually Acceptable Written Agreement (MAWA)
• Myoclonic Spasms of Infancy
• Myo-inositol
• N
• Naltrexone
• Naltrexone Hydrochloride
• Naming
• Nanocephaly
• Narrative Analysis
• Narrative Assessment
• Narrative Comprehension
• Narrative Language in ASD
• Narrative Understanding
• National Guideline for the Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Australia
• National Research Council
• Natural Environment
• Natural History
• Natural Language Paradigm
• Naturalistic Behavioral Intervention
• Naturalistic Interventions
• Navane
• Need for Caregiver Support for Families of Children with ASD, The
• Negative Priming Effect
• Negative Punishment
• Negative Reinforcement
• Neostriatum
• NEPS
• NEPS-U
• NEPSY-II
• Netherlands and Autism, The
• Network Coherence
• Neural Mechanisms in Autism
• Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Dysregulation
• Neural Reorganization
• Neural Science
• Neural Signatures of Treatment Response
• Neurexin 1
• Neuroanatomy
• Neurobiology
• Neurochemistry
• Neurodiversity
• Neuroleptic-Induced Dyskinesia
• Neuroleptics
• Neuroligins
• Neurologist
• Neurontin
• Neurontin (Gabapentine)
• Neuropathology
• Neurophysiology
• Neuroscience
• Neurotic Disorders (DSM-II Terminology)
• Neurotransmitter
• Neurotypical
• New Zealand and Autism
• Newson’s Syndrome
• Next-Generation Sequencing
• Nexus
• Nicotine and Autism
• Nigeria and Autism
• Niravam
• NLGN1
• NLGN2
• NLGN3
• NLGN4Y
• Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCI)
• Nondirective Play Therapy
• Nonfluency
• Nonfluent Aphasia
• Nonliteral Language
• Nonparametric Statistics
• Nonstandard Assessment
• Nonsymbolic Communication
• Nonverbal Communication
• Nonverbal Intelligence
• Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD)
• Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD), Second Edition
• Nonverbal Learning Disorder
• Nonverbal Oral Apraxia
• Noonan and Ras/MAPK Pathway Syndromes
• Noradrenaline
• Noradrenergic System
• Norepinephrine
• Normal
• Normal Curve
• Normal Distribution
• Normal Language Development
• Normalization
• Normative Data
• Norm-Referenced Assessment
• Norm-Referenced Testing
• Norms
• Norpramin
• Nortriptyline
• Nortriptyline Hydrochloride
• Norway and Autism
• No-Tech Communication Device
• Notice of Recommended Educational Placement (NOREP)
• Novel Antipsychotics
• Novo-Peridol
• N-Pthaloylglutamide
• NRDLS
• NRXN1
• Nuclei of Raphe
• Nutritional Interventions
• Nutritional Issues
• Nytol® Quick Caps [OTC]
• Nytol® Quick Gels [OTC]
• O
• Object Permanence
• Objective
• Observational Assessments
• Observational Learning
• Obsessive Desire for Sameness
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Obstetrical Complications/Risk Factors
• Obstipation
• Occipital Lobe
• Occipital Lobes
• Occupational Therapy (OT)
• Oculoauriculovertebral (OAV) Spectrum or Dysplasia
• Office of Rehabilitation
• Olanzapine
• Omission Training
• One-on-One
• One-to-One
• Onset
• Operant Behavior
• Operant Conditioning
• Operational Exhaustion
• Operational Stress Injury
• Optimal Arousal
• Optimal Outcome
• Options Method
• Oral Language
• Oral Sensitivity
• Oral-Facial Imitation
• Oral-Motor Apraxia
• Oral-Motor Imitation
• Oral-Motor Skills
• Orap
• Organelle
• Organization of the Physical Learning Environment
• Organizational Prevention
• Organizational Skills in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Organized Work Systems
• Orienting Response
• Ornitz, Edward
• Orofacial Imitation
• Otitis Media
• Outcome
• Outcome Studies
• Overcorrection
• Overly Talkative
• Oxazepam
• Oxytocin
• P
• Pain in Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Paired-Choice Preference Assessment
• Pakistan and Autism
• Paleostriatum
• Palestine and Autism
• Palliative Care
• Palpebronasal Fold
• Para
• Paraeducator
• Para-educator
• Paralinguistic Communication Assessment
• Parallel Play
• Paraphasia
• Paraphilias
• Paraprofessional
• Pareidolic Faces
• Parent Attitudes Toward Genetic and Epigenetic Tests for ASD
• Parent Expectations Mediate Outcomes for Youth with ASD
• Parent Involvement
• Parent Perspectives Toward Biological Testing for Autism
• Parent Protections
• Parent Responsiveness to Children at Risk of ASD
• Parent Training
• Parental Action and Referral Patterns in Spatial Clusters of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Parental Attitudes to Technology Use
• Parental Caregivers of Adults with Autism
• Parental Response to Diagnosis
• Parent-Implemented Bedtime Fading and Positive Routines
• Parent-Professional Collaboration
• Parent-Professional Partnership
• Parents’ Use of Internal State Language with Toddlers with ASD
• Paroxetine
• Paroxetine Hydrochloride
• Parroting
• Partial Agenesis
• Participation of Black and African-American Families in Autism Research
• Passive Group
• Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
• Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome
• Patient-and Family-Centered Care
• Patricia Howlin
• Patterning (Doman-Delacato Method)
• Pavlovian Conditioning
• Paxil
• Pay
• PDD
• PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified)
• PDDRS
• PDMS
• PDMS-2
• PDMS-II
• Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (PDMS)
• Peabody Individual Achievement Test, Revised
• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (PPVT)
• PEAK Relational Training System
• PEAK: Promoting the Emergence of Advanced Knowledge
• Pedantic Speech
• PEDI
• PediaCare® Children’s Allergy [OTC]
• PediaCare® Children’s NightTime Cough [OTC]
• Pediatric Autism Communication Therapy (PACT Therapy)
• Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI)
• Pediatric Onset Schizophrenia
• Pediatric Speech Intelligibility Test
• Peer Mentors for Students with ASD on College Campuses
• Peer Supports
• Peer Victimization
• Peer-Mediated Intervention
• PEERS
• Peers, Exposure to
• PEG
• Pemoline
• People-First Language
• PEP-3
• PEPS-C
• Perception
• Perceptual Development
• Perceptual Organization Index (POI)
• Perfectionism
• Performance Objectives
• Performance Reviews for Direct Care Staff
• Peridol
• Period Prevalence
• Peripatetic Teacher
• Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
• Periventricular Hemorrhage
• Periventricular Leukomalacia
• Perphenazine
• Perseveration
• Persistent Toe Walking
• Personal Perspectives on Autism
• Personality
• Personality Disorders
• Personality Inventory for Children
• Personality Structure in Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Personality, Clinical Assessment
• Person-First Language
• Perspective Taking
• Pertofrane
• Pertussis and Autism
• Pervasive Developmental Disorder
• Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders Rating Scale (PDDRS)
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test (PDDST)
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test-II (PDDST-II)
• PET
• Pharmacokinetics
• Phenocopies
• Phenomenological Approach
• Phenomenology
• Phenothiazine
• Philozac
• Phobia
• Phonemes
• Phonemic Errors
• Phonemic Fluency
• Phonetically Consistent Form
• Phonetics
• Phonological Deficits
• Phonological Development
• Phonological Disorders
• Phonology
• Phrase Length
• Phrenology
• Physical and Neurological Examination
• Physical Medicine
• Physical Therapy
• Physiological Measures of Parental Stress
• Physiotherapy
• Piagetian Stages
• PIAT-R
• PIAT-R/NU
• PIC
• Pica
• Pictorial Cues/Visual Supports (CR)
• Picture Arrangement
• Picture Board
• Picture Exchange Communication System
• Picture Schedule
• Picture Thinking
• Pimozide
• Pincer Grasp
• Pivotal Response Teaching®
• Pivotal Response Training
• Pivotal Response Treatment®
• PL94-142
• Placement-Pending Requirement
• Placenta
• PL-ADOS
• Planning and Placement Team (PPT)
• Plasma Adiponectin and Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Plasticity, Neural
• Play
• Play Intervention
• PLAY Project
• Play Space Design in Autism
• Play Therapy
• Play-Based Interventions
• Pleiotropy
• Plica Palpebronasalis
• PLS-5
• PLSI
• Plumbism
• PM
• Pms-Haloperidol
• Pneumoencephalography
• POI
• Point Prevalence
• Point-Light Displays
• Police-Citizen Interactions, Theory of Mind, and ASD
• Politics of Autism
• Politics of Autism Transition Services
• Pondimin
• Population Norms
• Portugal and Autism
• Positive Behavior (al) Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
• Positive Behavior Intervention
• Positive Behavior Support
• Positive Behavior Support (PBS)
• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
• Positive Behavioral Support
• Positive Reinforcement
• Positron-Emission Tomography
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Postural Control Assessment
• Posturography
• Power of Attorney (Financial and Property Management)
• Power of Attorney for Healthcare (Durable Healthcare Power of Attorney and Medical Power of Attorney)
• PPS
• PPVT: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
• Practice Guidelines in Autism
• Prader-Labhart-Willi Syndrome
• Pragmatic Communication
• Pragmatic Communication Disorder
• Pragmatic Language
• Pragmatic Language Disorder
• Pragmatic Language Impairment
• Pragmatic Language Skills Inventory
• Pragmatic Rating Scale
• Pragmatics
• Praise
• Praxis
• Pre-, During, and Posttest Design
• Precentral Gyrus
• Preciseness
• Precision Teaching
• Predictive Value of Screening Measures
• Predictors at Toddlerhood for Long-Term Severity of ADHD Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Predictors of Clinician Certainty in the Diagnosis of Autism
• Predictors of Emotion Regulation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Preemployment Skills for People with ASD
• Preference and Reinforcer Assessment
• Prefrontal Cortex
• Prelinguistic Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
• Prelinguistic Communication
• Prelinguistic Communication Assessment
• Prelinguistic Sounds
• Preliteracy
• Premack Principle
• Prenatal Diagnosis of Autism
• Pre-post Design
• Pre-post-posttest Design
• Preschool
• Pre-school Autism Communication Therapy (PACT)
• Pre-school Autism Communication Trial (PACT Trial)
• Preschool Curricula
• Preschool Edition
• Preschool Language Scale - 5
• Present Level of Growth or Knowledge
• Pressure/Squeeze Machine
• Presupposition
• Pretend Play
• Pretense
• Prevalence
• Preverbal Communication
• Prevocational Skills
• Primacy Effects
• Primary Motor Cortex
• Primary Sensory Areas
• Primary Visual Cortex
• Primate Prosocial Behaviors
• Primitive Reflexes
• Princeton Child Development Institute (PCDI)
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
• Private Speech
• Proactive Inhibition
• Proactive Interference in ASD
• Problem Behavior
• Problem Behaviors
• Problem Sexual Behavior
• Procedural Adherence
• Procedural Fidelity
• Procedural Integrity
• Procedural Memory
• Procedural Reliability
• Procedural Safeguards
• Processing Speed Index
• Processing Speed Quotient
• Profile of Intelligences
• Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C)
• Profound Hearing Impairment
• Program-Wide Positive Behavior Supports (PWPBS)- Early Childhood Programs
• Progressive Applied Behavior Analysis
• Projective Testing
• Projective Tests
• Projective Tests of Personality
• Projectives
• Proline-Rich Synapse-Associated Protein 2
• ProM
• Prompt Dependence
• Prompt Fading
• Prompt Hierarchy
• PROMPT System
• Prompting
• Prompts
• Pronoun Errors
• Pronoun Reversal
• Pronoun Use
• Pronunciation
• PROSAP2
• Prosocial Behavior
• Prosocial Behaviors
• Prosocial Skills
• Prosody
• Prosody-Voice Screening Protocol
• Prosopagnosia
• Prospective
• Prospective Memory in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Protection and Advocacy System (P&A)
• Protodeclarative
• Protoimperative
• Protowords
• Protriptyline
• Provider Training
• Prozac
• Prozac Weekly (Once-Weekly Dosing)
• Prozac™ (Fluoxetine)
• PRS-SA (Pragmatic Rating Scale-School Age)
• PRT®
• PSAP2
• Pseudoscience
• PSI Test
• Psychiatric Problems and Care in Older Adults with Autism
• Psychiatrist
• Psychoanalyst
• Psychodynamic Theories
• Psychoeducational Profile - Revised (PEP-3)
• Psychological Assessment
• Psychologist
• Psychomotor
• Psychomotor Development
• Psychomotor Development Index
• Psychopathology
• Psychophysiology
• Psychosis
• Psychosocial
• Psychosocial Effects of Soft Skills Training for Young Adults with Autism
• Psychostimulants
• Psychotherapist
• Psychotherapy
• Psychotic Disorder
• Psychotic Symptoms in Autism
• PT
• Public Law 94-142
• Public Perception of Autism Treatments: Science Versus Pseudoscience in the Age of Mass Media
• Public Understanding of Autism
• Pull-Out Room
• Punishment
• Purdue Pegboard
• Purines and Related Compounds
• Purkinje Cells
• Putamen
• PVL
• PVSP
• Pyramidal System
• Q
• Qatar and Autism
• Quack Science
• Qualitative Versus Quantitative Approaches
• Quality of Life for Transition-Age Youth with ASD
• Quasiexperimental
• Quasi-words
• Quetiapine
• Quetiapine Fumarate
• R
• RAADS-R
• Racing Thoughts, Distractibility, and Psychomotor Agitation
• Rank, Beata
• Raphe Nuclei
• Rapid Motor Imitation Approach (RMIA)
• Rapid Prompting
• Rapiflux
• Rapin, Isabelle
• Ras/MAPK Pathway Syndromes
• Rating Scale
• Ratio-Haloperidol
• Rational Demand Avoidance
• RAVLT
• RDoC and ASD
• RDoC and Autism
• Reaction Time
• Reactive Attachment Disorder
• Readiness to Learn
• Reading
• Reading Comprehension Disorder
• Reading Comprehension Impairments in School-Aged Children with HFA
• Reading Comprehension Strategies in Autism
• Reading Interventions
• Reading Skills
• Reading the Mind in Eyes Test
• Real-Life Rating Scale
• Reasonable Accommodation
• Reasoning on the Autism Spectrum
• Recall
• Recency Effect
• Recency Effects
• Recent Developments in Understanding Friendship of Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Reception
• Receptive Aphasia
• Receptive Language
• Receptive Language Disorders
• Receptive Language Impairment/Disability
• Receptive Lexicon
• Receptive Vocabulary
• Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test (REEL-3)
• Recessive Alleles
• Recessive Characteristics
• Recessive Genes
• Recessive Traits
• Reciprocal Communication
• Reciprocal Communication/Interaction
• Recognition
• Recognition Memory
• Recollection
• Reconcile
• Recovery in Autism
• Redirection
• Reduced Prioritization of Facial Threat in ASD
• REEL-3
• Reevaluation
• Referent
• Reflexive Behavior
• Refrigerator Mother
• Regional Centers
• Register Variation
• Registered Behavior Technician (Definition)
• Regression
• Regression Analysis
• Regressive Autism
• Rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Rehabilitation Engineer
• Reinforcement
• Reinforcement, Differential
• Reinforcer
• Reinforcing Stimulus
• Related Services
• Relationship Between Autism Stigma and Informal Caregiver Mental Health
• Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) Model
• Relationship Enhancement Methods
• Relative Weakness in an Area of Functioning
• Relaxation Techniques
• Remembering to Remember
• Remembrance
• Remeron
• Repertory Grid Process for Person-Centered Assessment of Social Cognition for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Repetitive Behavior
• Repetitive Behavior
• Repetitive Movements
• Replacement Behavior
• Report Form
• Report of Annual Yearly Academic Progress
• Representation
• Request
• Research Domain Criteria and ASD
• Residual Autism
• Residual Infantile Autism
• Resilience in Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Resource Distribution
• Resource Room
• Respiratory Sinus Arrythmia (RSA)
• Respite Care
• Respondent Behavior
• Response Cost
• Response Effort
• Response Interruption/Redirection
• Response Latency
• Response Time
• Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors and Sleep Disturbances in ASD
• Restricted Interest
• Restrictive Interests
• Retrieval of Information
• Retrospective Infant Video Analysis
• Rett Syndrome
• Rett’s Disorder
• Reversal Learning
• Revia
• Revised Knox Preschool Play Scale (RKPPS)
• Reward
• Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (Rey AVLT)
• Reynell Developmental Language Scales
• RG7314
• Right-Hemisphere Deficit Syndrome
• Right-Hemisphere Developmental Learning Disability
• Right-Hemisphere Learning Disability
• Right-Hemisphere Syndrome
• Rilutek
• Riluzole
• Rimland Diagnostic Form for Behavior-Disturbed Children (E-2)
• Rimland Diagnostic Form for Behavior-Disturbed Children (Form E-2)
• Rimland, Bernard
• Risk of ASD in Individuals with Down Syndrome
• Risperdal
• Risperdal ™ (Risperidone)
• Risperidone
• Ritalin
• Ritualized Request
• Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale - Revised
• Ritvo, Edward
• Ritvo-Freeman Real Life Rating Scale
• Ritvo-Freeman Real-Life Rating Scale
• Ritvo-Freeman RLRS
• Rivotril
• RJA/IJA (Initiating/Responding to Joint Attention)
• RLRS
• RMET
• RO 5028442
• RO-5285119
• Robot-Assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Role of Relationship Satisfaction in Parental Coping
• Role Release
• Romanian Adoptive Children
• Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale
• Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale (The Rossetti)
• Rote Learning
• Rote Memory
• Rourke, Byron
• Routine Events
• RSH Syndrome
• Rubella
• Rumination
• Rumination Disorder
• Russia and Autism
• Rutter, Michael
• S
• SAD
• Safety
• Sainsbury, Clare
• Sameness, Insistence on
• Sarafem
• Savant Skills (in Autism)
• Savant Syndrome
• SB5
• SCAN-A (Adults)
• SCAN-C (Children)
• Scavenging
• Schaffer v. Weast (Burden of Proof in Moving a Child to Another Placement)
• Schaffer v. Weast and the Burden of Persuasion
• Schedule of Reinforcement
• Schedules
• Schizophrenia
• Scholarships
• Scholz’s Disease
• School Harassment
• School Psychologist
• School to Work Transition Process
• School-Aged Children
• School-Clinic Care Coordination for Youth with ASD
• School-Wide Positive Behavior (al) Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS)-for Schools K-12
• School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS)-for Schools K-12
• Schopler, Eric
• Scoliosis
• Scotland and Autism
• SCQ
• Screening Instruments for ASD
• Screening Measures
• Screening of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Older Adults
• Screening Test for Auditory Processing Disorders
• Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers
• Screening Tool for Autism in Two-Year-Olds (STAT)
• Scripting
• Scripts
• SCZD15
• SDA
• Season of Birth in Autism
• Seasonality of Autism
• Secondary and Postsecondary Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Secondary Handicapping Conditions
• Second-Generation Antipsychotics (SGAs)
• Second-Generation Sequencing
• SecreFlo
• Secretin
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Secure Employment
• Sedative Hypnotic Drugs
• Seeing Essential English (SEE I)
• Segment
• Seizure
• Seizure Disorder
• Seizures
• Selective Attention
• Selective Mutism
• Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
• Self-Advocacy
• Self-Care
• Self-Contained Classroom
• Self-Determination
• Self-Directed Support Corporation Supports
• Self-Direction
• Self-Employment Supports
• Self-Empowerment
• Selfemra
• Self-Help
• Self-Help Skills
• Self-Injurious Behavior
• Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB)
• Self-Management Interventions
• Self-Other Distinction and Social Cognition in ASD
• Self-Recognition
• Self-Recognition and Self-Referential Behavior
• Self-Regulation
• Self-Reliance
• Self-Report Autism Scales for Adults
• Self-Reported Temperament in Children and Adolescent with High Functioning Autism
• Self-Stimulatory Behavior
• Self-Talk
• Self-Understanding of Academic Competencies in ASD
• Semantic Fluency
• Semantic Memory
• Semantic Pragmatic Deficit Disorder
• Semantic Pragmatic Deficit Syndrome
• Semantic Pragmatic Disorder
• Semantic Pragmatic Language Disorder
• Send-Out Room
• Sensation Avoiding
• Sensation-Seeking
• Sense of Balance
• Sensitivity and Specificity
• Sensorimotor Development
• Sensorimotor Play
• Sensory Aphasia
• Sensory Avoiding
• Sensory Diet
• Sensory Experiences Questionnaire
• Sensory Features as a Marker of Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Sensory History
• Sensory Impairment
• Sensory Impairment in Autism
• Sensory Integration (SI) Therapy
• Sensory Integration and Praxis Test
• Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT)
• Sensory Overresponsivity as a Predictor of Amplitude Discrimination Performance in Youth with ASD
• Sensory Processing
• Sensory Processing Assessment
• Sensory Processing Measure
• Sensory Processing Measure, Preschool Edition
• Sensory Processing Measure: Preschool (SPM-P)
• Sensory Seeking
• Sensory Sensitivity Questionnaire (SSQ)
• Sensory Sensitivity Questionnaire: Revised
• Sensory Stimuli
• Sensory System for Sense of Hearing
• Sentence Structure
• Separate Classroom
• Separation Anxiety Disorder
• SEQ
• Sequential Processing
• Serax
• Serentil
• Serial Position Effect
• Serial Processing
• Seromycin
• Seroplex
• Seroquel
• Seroquel XR
• Serotonin
• Serotonin Behavioral Syndrome
• Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SRIs)
• Serotonin Syndrome
• Sertraline
• Sertraline Hydrochloride
• Service
• Service Delivery Model
• Service Need
• Service Receipt
• Service Use
• Service Utilization in Autism
• Set Shifting
• Setting Events
• Sex Chromosomes
• Sex Differences in ASD on Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors and Interests
• Sex Education
• Sex Hormones
• Sexuality and Problem Behaviors
• Sexuality and Romantic Relationships Among People with ASD
• Sexuality in Autism
• SHANK 3
• SHANK3
• Shaping of Behavior
• Shared Book Reading with Preschoolers with Autism
• Shared Storybook Reading
• Shell Shock
• Sheltered Employment
• Sheltered Workshops
• Short Sensory Profile
• Short Sensory Profile 2
• Short Sensory Profile in Autism
• Short-Term Memory
• Sibling Emotion
• Sibling Feelings About Their Brother or Sister with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Sibling Relationship
• Sibling Support
• Siemerling-Creutzfeldt Disease
• Sign Language
• Signed English
• Signing Exact English (SEE II)
• Siladryl Allergy [OTC]
• Silenor
• Silphen Cough [OTC]
• Simon Baron-Cohen
• Simple Phobia
• Simplified Chinese Psychoeducational Profile Third Edition
• Simply Sleep™ [OTC]
• Simpson-Angus Scale for Extrapyramidal Symptoms
• Sinequan
• Singapore and Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Single Case
• Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism
• Single-Nucleotide Variation
• Single-Subject Design
• Single-Subject Study
• Singsong
• SIPT
• Situation Awareness
• Situations-Options-Choices-Consequences-Strategies- Simulation (SOCCSS) Program
• Skill
• Skinner’s Verbal Behavior
• Skinnerian Categories of Verbal Behavior
• SLDT-A
• SLDT-E
• Sleep Bruxism
• Sleep Disorders
• Sleep Disorders and Autism
• Sleep Disturbance
• Sleep-ettes D [OTC]
• Sleepinal® [OTC]
• Sleep-tabs [OTC]
• SLO Syndrome
• SLOS
• SLP (Acronym for Speech-Language Pathologist)
• Small-Group Technology-Assisted Instruction Using Socially Assistive Robotics and Virtual Reality
• Smith v. Robinson (1984)
• Smith v. Robinson (1984) Rights to Attorney Fees for Parents
• Smith, Tristram
• Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome
• SNAP
• SNE
• SNP
• Social
• Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
• Social Behaviors and Social Impairment
• Social Camouflaging in Adults with ASD
• Social Class and Autism
• Social Cognition
• Social Cognition Training
• Social Cognitive Interventions
• Social Cognitive Learning Theory
• Social Communication
• Social Communication and Interaction (SCI)
• Social Communication Disorder
• Social Communication Questionnaire
• Social Emotional Skills
• Social Gaze
• Social Inclusion
• Social Initiation
• Social Interventions
• Social Language Development Test
• Social Language Development Test-Adolescent
• Social Language Development Test-Elementary
• Social Learning
• Social Learning Disability/Difference
• Social Motivation and Friendship Experiences of Autistic Adolescents
• Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder
• Social Responsiveness Scale
• Social Scientist
• Social Scripts
• Social Security Amendments of 1965 (or “Medicare Act of 1965” and/or the “Medicaid Act of 1965”)
• Social Skill Interventions
• Social Skills
• Social Skills Improvement System
• Social Stigma
• Social Stories
• Social Thinking
• Social Tools And Rules for Teens (START) Program
• Social Validity
• Social-Emotional Behavior and Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Social-Emotional Inhibition of Return
• Social-Emotional Learning Disability
• Social-Emotional Learning Skills
• Social-Emotional Processing Disorder
• Social-Emotional Skills
• Socialization and High-Functioning Autism
• Soft Job Skills
• Soiling
• Somatosensory Cortex
• Sominex® [OTC]
• Sominex® Maximum Strength [OTC]
• Somnolence
• Son-Rise Program
• Sotos Syndrome and ASD
• Sound Sensitivity
• South Africa and Autism
• SPA
• Spain and Autism
• SPANK-2
• Sparrow, Sara
• Spastic Diplegia
• Spastic Paralysis
• Speaker Versus Listener-Oriented Disfluency
• Special Education
• Special Education Classroom
• Special Education Needs
• Special Education Service Utilization in ASD
• Special Needs
• Special Needs Planning (SNP)
• Special Needs Trust (SNT)
• Special Olympics
• Specific Language Impairment
• Specific Learning Disability
• Specific Learning Disorder
• Specific Reading Disability
• Spectrum/Continuum of Autism
• Speech
• Speech and Language Services
• Speech Clinician (Not Preferred Title)
• Speech Delay
• Speech Disorder
• Speech Impairment
• Speech Impairment/Disorder
• Speech Impairments
• Speech Morphology
• Speech Pathologist (Not Preferred Title)
• Speech Sound
• Speech Sound Disorder
• Speech Sound Production
• Speech Teacher (Not Preferred Title)
• Speech Therapist (Not Preferred Title)
• Speech Therapy
• Speech Therapy (Not Preferred)
• Speech/Communication Disabilities
• Speech-for-the-Self
• Speech-Language Clinician (Not Preferred Title)
• Speech-Language Intervention
• Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)
• Speech-Language Pathology Practice
• Speech-Language Pathology Services
• Speech-Language Therapist (Not Preferred Title)
• Sphingolipidoses
• Spinal Curvature
• Spinal Fluid
• SPM
• SPM-P
• Spoken Language
• Spoken Language Comprehension
• Sports
• SRS
• SSIS SEL
• SSP
• SSP-2
• SSQ-R
• Staff Training and Development
• Stalking
• Stammering
• Standard
• Standard Deviation (SD)
• Standard Error of Measurement
• Standard Error of the Mean
• Standard Normal Distribution
• Standard Score
• Standard Scores (Z and T Scores)
• Standardization
• Standardized Behavior Checklists
• Standardized Scores
• Standardized Tests
• Standing Balance Assessment
• Stanford-Binet
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales and Revised Versions
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
• STAR Program
• Startle Reflex
• Startle Response
• STAT
• State Educational Agency
• State of Alertness
• Statewide Service Programs
• Statistical Approaches to Subtyping
• Statistical Significance
• Stay-Put Requirement
• Stelazine™
• STEM Education and Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Stepped Transition in Education Program for Students with ASD (STEPS)
• Steps
• Stereotyped and Restrictive Behaviors and Sensory Interests (SRS)
• Stereotyped Movement Disorder
• Stereotypic Behavior
• Stereotypic Movement Disorders
• Stereotypies
• Stereotypy
• Steroids
• Stigmatization
• Stimulant Medications
• Stimulus
• Stimulus Control
• Stimulus Fading
• Stimulus Overselectivity
• Stimulus Preference Assessment
• Story Grammar Analysis
• Story Grammar Assessment
• Story Structure Decision Tree
• Strabismus
• Stranger Anxiety
• Straterra (TM)
• Strengthening
• Stress Disorder
• Stress Reactivity
• Striatum
• Strong Narrative Assessment Procedure (SNAP), Second Edition
• Structural Equation Mixture Modeling
• Structural Equation Modeling
• Structured Behavioral Interventions
• Structured Classrooms
• Structured Descriptive Assessment
• Structured Environments
• Structured Teaching
• Student Characteristics and Teachers’ Decisions to Use 1:1 Instruction
• Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment
• Study Design Impact on Prevalence
• Stuttering
• Subacute Necrotizing Encephalomyelopathy
• Subacute Necrotizing Encephalopathy
• Sub-cortical Ganglia
• Sub-Saharan Africa and Autism
• Substance Use Problems/Disorders in Individuals with ASD
• Substantia Grisea
• Substantia Nigra
• Substantial Gainful Activity
• Substantial Gainful Employment
• Subtest Scatter
• Subtyping Autism
• Success Factors Enabling Employment for Adults on the Autism Spectrum
• Successful School Transition
• Successive Integration
• Successive Processing
• Suicidality in Children and Adolescents with Autism
• Suicide Rates in Adults with Autism
• Sulfatide Lipidosis
• Sulfatidosis
• Superior Temporal Sulcus
• Superior Temporal Sulcus Region
• Support Trust
• Supported Employment
• Supported Employment Group
• Supported Work
• Supporting
• Sustained Treatment Benefits
• Sweden and Autism
• Symbol
• Symbol Use
• Symbolic Behavior
• Symbolic Play
• Symbolic Thought
• Synapses
• Synaptic Proteins
• Synaptic Pruning
• Synaptogenesis
• Syndrome of Deficits in Attention, Motor Control, and Perception (DAMP)
• Syntax
• Systemizing
• Systemizing Quotient (SQ-7)
• Systems Intervention
• T
• T Scores
• TABS
• TABS Screener
• TACL-4
• Tact
• Tact(s)
• Tactile
• Tactile Defensiveness
• Tactile Defensiveness and Discrimination Test-Revised
• Tactile Sensitivity
• Tactile Temporal Resolution
• Tailoring Job Skills
• Takao Syndrome
• Talking
• Tangentially
• Tantrum
• Tardive Dyskinesia
• Target Behavior
• Targeting IEP Social Goals in Summer Camps
• Task Analysis
• TDDT-R
• TEACCH Transition Assessment Profile - Computer Version
• TEACCH Transition Assessment Profile (TTAP)
• Teach Me Language
• Teacher’s Aide
• Teaching Abduction-Prevention Skills to Children with Autism
• Teaching Assistant
• Teaching Interaction Procedure
• Teaching Personal Safety
• Team Approach
• Teglutik
• TELD
• TELD-2
• TELD-3
• Telegraphic Speech
• Telehealth: An Effective Model for Providing Behavior Analytic Interventions to Individuals with ASD
• Temper Tantrum
• Temperament
• Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale Screener (TABS Screener)
• Temporal Cortex
• Temporal Lobes
• Tenex
• Teratology
• Test Age
• Test Bias
• Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language - Fourth Edition
• Test of Early Language Development (TELD)
• Test of Early Language Skill
• Test of Early Mathematics Ability-3
• Test of Narrative Language
• Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI-4)
• Test of Playfulness (ToP)
• Test of Pragmatic Language-2 (TOPL-2)
• Test of Sensory Functioning in Infants
• Test of Written Language
• Test of Written Language, Fourth Edition (TOWL-4)
• Thalamus
• Thalidomide
• Theoretical Models and Autism
• Theories of Language Development
• Theory of Mind
• Theraflu® Thin Strips® Multi symptom [OTC]
• Therapeutic Education
• Therapist
• Thimerosal
• Thioridazine
• Thiothixene
• Thiothixene
• Thiothixene Hydrochloride
• Thiothixene Hydrochloride Intensol
• Third Edition
• Thorazine
• Threat Detection
• Threat Perception
• Threat Superiority
• Three-Word Phrases and Sentences
• Thyrotropin, Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
• Thyroxine (T)
• Tics
• TIME
• Time Experience in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Time Interval
• Time Management
• Time Sampling Procedures
• Time Trends in Diagnosis
• Time-Out
• Time-Out from Positive Reinforcement
• Timothy Syndrome
• Timothy Syndrome - 1 (TS1)
• Timothy Syndrome - 2 (TS2)
• Title IX
• TNL 2
• Toddler Infant Motor Evaluation
• Toe Walking
• Tofranil
• Toilet Training
• Token Economy
• Token Test for Children - Second Edition (TTFC-2)
• Tolerance for Delay
• Tone of Voice
• TONI
• Tonic-Clonk Seizure
• ToP
• Topamax (Topiramate)
• Topic Management
• Topiramate
• TOPL-2
• Total Communication (TC) Approach
• Touch
• Touch Pressure
• Touch Processing and Social Behavior in ASD
• Touch Sensitivity
• Tourette Disorder
• Tourette Syndrome
• Tourette’s Syndrome
• Toxicology
• Train-and-Hope Strategy
• Trainer Implementation
• Training Parents of Youth with Autism to Advocate for Adult Disability Services
• Training the General Case
• Transactional Support (SCERTS) Model
• Transactional Supports
• Transdisciplinary Assessment and Intervention
• Transdisciplinary Team
• Transfer of Function
• Transformative Autism Studies (Woods et al. 2018)
• Transition Cue
• Transition Planning
• Transition Support Practices
• Transitional Living
• Trauma
• Travel Training
• Traveling Teacher
• Trazodone
• Treatment Adherence
• Treatment and Education of Autistic and Communication-Related Handicapped CHildren
• Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication-Handicapped Children
• Treatment Fidelity
• Treatment for Higher-Order Restricted, Repetitive Behaviors
• Treatment Gain Retention
• Treatment Integrity
• Treatment Preference Assessment
• Treatment Preference Evaluation
• Treatment Priorities
• Treffert, Darold
• Trexan
• TRIAD Social Skills Assessment
• Trial
• Triaminic Thin Strips® Children’s Cough and Runny Nose [OTC]
• Triazolam and Autism
• Trichotillomania
• Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs)
• Triennial Evaluation and Triennial Review
• Trifluoperazine
• Trilafon
• Trisomy 21
• True Negative Rate
• True Positive Rate
• Trust
• Trustee
• Tryptophan
• TS Bourneville’s Disease
• TSC Tuberous Sclerosis
• TSFI
• TSI
• TTAP
• TTAP-CV
• TTFC-2
• Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
• Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
• Turkey and Autism
• Turner Syndrome
• Turn-Taking
• Tutor
• Twilite® [OTC]
• Twin Studies in Autism
• Type I Error
• Type II Punishment
• Type II Punishment, Second Edition
• Typical
• Typical Length
• Typically Developing
• U
• U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act
• UCLA Young Autism Project
• Ullrich-Turner Syndrome
• Uncertainty Processing in Autism
• Under-arousal
• Understanding Parent’s Intervention Choices for Their Child with ASD
• Understanding Social Communication Differences in ASD and First-Degree Relatives
• Unengaged
• Uniform Transfers to Minors
• Unipolar Depression
• Unisom® SleepGels® Maximum Strength [OTC]
• Unisom® SleepMelts™ [OTC]
• Unit of Response
• United Kingdom (UK)
• Upright/Inverted Figures
• Uruguay and Autism
• US Social Policy and Autism Spectrum Disorders
• USA and Autism
• Use of Language
• Use of Language in Context
• Using Shaping to Increase Foods Consumed by Children with Autism
• Uta Frith
• Utilitarian Attention
• Utility of Repeated Autism Screening at 18 and 24 Months
• Uzgiris-Hunt Ordinal Scales of Infant Development
• V
• V1
• VABS-II: Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-II
• Vaccinations and Autism
• Validity
• Valium
• Valproate
• Valproate Sodium (Depacon)
• Valproic Acid
• Valproic Acid (Depakene and Stavzor)
• Vanderbilt Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) Social Skills Assessment (TSSA)
• Vanspar
• Variable Expressivity of Genes
• VB-MAPP
• VB-MAPP: Verbal Behavior Milestones and Placement Program
• VCFS
• Velocardiofacial Syndrome
• Venlafaxine
• Ventricles
• Ventriculography
• Verbal Apraxia
• Verbal Auditory Agnosia
• Verbal Behavior
• Verbal Behavior Assessment
• Verbal Behavior Interventions
• Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP)
• Verbal Communication
• Verbal Comprehension
• Verbal Comprehension Index
• Verbal Dyspraxia
• Verbal Fluency
• Verbal Intelligence
• Verbal Semantic Coherence
• Verbalization
• Versed
• Very Early-Onset Schizophrenia
• Vestibular Function in Children with Autism
• Vestibular System in Autism
• Victimization
• Video Feedback and Feedforward
• Video Games and Violence
• Video Games, Use of
• Video Instruction
• Video Modeling/Video Self-Modeling
• Video Prompting
• Video Tape Analysis Studies
• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS)
• Vineland III
• Vineland-3
• Violence and ASD
• Violent/Criminal Behavior in Autism
• Visiting Teacher
• Visual Attention to Eyes
• Visual Cortex
• Visual Evoked Potential (VEP)
• Visual Narrative Comprehension
• Visual Narrative Sequences
• Visual Orienting to Eyes
• Visual Processing
• Visual Responses to Implicit Emotional Faces
• Visual Scanning
• Visual Schedule
• Visual Schedules
• Visual Supports
• Visual Thinking
• Visual/Somatosensory Cognitive Potentials
• Visually Organized Learning Environments
• Visual-Motor Ability
• Visual-Motor Function
• Visual-Motor Integration
• Visual-Motor Integration, Developmental (VMI) Test
• Visual-Motor Skills
• Visual-Spatial Ability
• Visuomotor Ability
• Visuomotor Function
• Visuomotor Skills
• Vitamin B8
• Vivactil
• VMI
• Vocable
• Vocabulary
• Vocalization
• Vocational Counseling
• Vocational Counselor
• Vocational Evaluator
• Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist
• Vocational Trainer
• Vocational Training
• Voice Output Communication Aids
• VPT
• W
• Wait Training
• Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS)
• WCST
• Weak Central Coherence
• Wechsler Memory Scale (All Versions)
• Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
• Wechsler Test of Adult Reading
• Wechsler, David
• Wellbutrin
• Wernicke, Karl (1848-1905)
• Wernicke’s Aphasia
• West Syndrome
• Whole-Genome Sequencing
• Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning (WRAML)
• Wide-Range Assessment of Visual-Motor Abilities
• Wilbarger Protocol
• Williams-Beuren Region Duplication
• Wing Subgroups Questionnaire (WSQ)
• Wing, Lorna
• Winkleman v. Parma City School District (2007 Rights Under IDEA)
• WISC
• WISC - V
• Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)
• Within-Subject Design
• WJ-IV
• WJ-IV Ach
• WJ-IV Cog
• WJ-IV OL
• Wolfe, Sula
• Woodcock Johnson Test of Achievement, Fourth Edition
• Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Fourth Edition
• Woodcock Johnson, Fourth Edition
• Woodcock-Johnson Cognitive and Achievement Batteries
• Word Fluency
• Word Recognition
• Word Use
• Words
• Work Placement for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Work Team
• Workforce Innovations Opportunity Act
• Working for Pay
• Worry
• Wounds
• WPPSI-III
• WPPSI-III - Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
• WRAML2
• WRAML-2
• Wraparound Services
• WRAVMA
• Writing
• Writing Disorders
• Writing Interventions for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Written Communication
• Written Language
• Wrong Decision
• X
• X and Y Chromosomes
• Xanax
• Xanax (Alprazolam)
• Xanax XR
• Xeristar
• X-Linked Traits
• X-Ray Computed Tomography
• Y
• Yale Global Tic Severity Scale
• Yale In Vivo Pragmatic Protocol
• Yeast Infection
• Yentreve
• YGTSS
• YiPP
• Z
• Z Scores
• Zactin
• Zaponex
• Zebrafish Models
• Zeldox
• Zero Reject
• Ziprasidone
• Zoloft
• Zolpidem
• Zonalon
• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
• Zyban
• Zygosity
• Zyprexa