The Spectrum Center LLC

12/27/2021

05/07/2018

Do you think you or your child might also have ADHD along with Autism? See my latest blog post on the issues:

In a my last blog post I talked about how updates to autism diagnostic categories affected what terms are currently used to provide a diagnosis for a person with autism. In addition to the changes in terms, there were some changes in what additional diagnoses were able to be included with autism,

04/13/2018

See my new blog post about the updates to terms like Asperger's and PDD-NOS at

The terms Asperger's Syndrome/Disorder and Pervasive Developmental Delay-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS for short) have been dropped from the mainstream diagnostic system used by most mental health professionals in the US. The "big book" cataloguing mental health conditions in the US is

12/07/2017

Latest blog post about ideas to manage winter break fresh off the presses.

Some children really thrive at school. These are the kids who get up and get dressed on Saturday and look disappointed when you tell them there is no school today. These are also often kids who like a lot of structure and predictability in their life; this can be especially true for children with au