Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He currently lives in San Diego, California with his wife, also an autism researcher, Karen Pierce, PhD, and their family. Scientifically, Courchesne’s contribution has led to over 180 publications on the topic of autism and has been included in national and international news coverage.
According to Amaral, "The tremendous variation in autism leads us to believe that it is a group of disorders rather than a single one." [ 9 ] The longitudinal study will enroll 1800 children, aged two to four: 900 diagnosed with autism, 450 with developmental delays, and 450 non-autistic control subjects.
The California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) was founded in 1969 [1] by the California Psychological Association. It is part of the for-profit [2] Alliant International University where each campus's Clinical Psychology Psy.D. and Ph.D. program is individually accredited by the American Psychological Association. [3]
Upon completion of his doctorate, Rimland and his wife moved back to San Diego. Rimland worked as a psychologist at the Point Loma Naval Station, [2] where he remained until 1985. [3] After the birth of his son, Mark, and his subsequent diagnosis of autism around the age of two, Rimland began researching the disorder.
Alliant International University is a private for-profit university [1] with its main campus in San Diego, five additional campuses in California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine, Sacramento, and Fresno) and one campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Its enrollment is approximately 4,000 students, of whom 95% are graduate students.
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.
Rimland was a founder of the Autism Society of America in 1965, but left to create the Autism Research Institute in 1967. [10] He later promoted several theories, which have since been disproven, about the causes and treatment of autism, including vaccine denial , facilitated communication , chelation therapy , and false claims of a link ...
Scripps Health is a nonprofit health care system based in San Diego, California. The system includes five hospital campuses and 30 outpatient centers and clinics, and treats more than 600,000 patients annually through 3,000 affiliated physicians. The system also includes clinical research and medical education programs.