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Orion Academy; University of California, Berkeley [1] The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), [Fresno] - A specialized institution providing educational and therapeutic services to individuals with autism spectrum disorder. [2]
The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD) is an organization that provides a range of services based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) for children and adults on the autism spectrum. CARD was founded in 1990 by Doreen Granpeesheh. The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, acquired CARD in 2018.
The Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT) is a non-profit organization devoted to autism. It was founded in 1998 and is currently based in Hoboken, New Jersey . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Members of its advisory board include Eric Fombonne and Stephen Barrett ; [ 3 ] Tristram Smith was one of its board members until his death in August 2018. [ 4 ]
Autism Speaks Inc. is an American non-profit autism awareness organization and the largest autism research organization in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public. [ 4 ]
Linda Jordan, director of the Achieve Academy for Adults with Autism, is shown at the academy's future site on the Brookdale Community College satellite campus in Wall on July 19, 2024.
ABA is an applied science devoted to developing procedures which will produce observable changes in behavior. [3] [9] It is to be distinguished from the experimental analysis of behavior, which focuses on basic experimental research, [10] but it uses principles developed by such research, in particular operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
Intensive, sustained special education programs and behavior therapy early in life can help children with ASD acquire self-care, social, and job skills, [5] and often can improve functioning, and decrease severity of the signs and observed behaviors thought of as maladaptive; [8] Available approaches include applied behavior analysis (ABA ...
By addressing communication deficits, the person will be supported to express their needs and feelings by means other than challenging behavior. [6] Working from the premise that people with autism are predominantly visual learners, intervention strategies are based around physical and visual structure, schedules, work systems and task ...