Health Care, Therapy and Rehabilitation Services: Asperger Syndrome
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National
State Listings: NJ / NC / WA (Official USPS State Abbreviations)
National
Mayo Clinic - ASK A CHILDREN'S HEALTH SPECIALIST - Autistic spectrum disorders. Mayo Clinic pediatrician Jay Hoecker, M.D., and colleagues will answer select questions from readers.
State Listings
New Jersey
Social Skills Training Project is a fee for service company that utilizes a primarily cognitive-behavioral approach to teach social skills to children, adolescents, and adults who have social-communication difficulties. These difficulties may include autistic spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorders, and other psychiatric conditions or learning disabilities that may be associated with social difficulties. Their goals are to provide relevant social skill instruction that will generalize into daily routines, to make socializing fun so that students want to socialize and to help "typical" peers and professionals become more understanding, accepting, and engaging of those with social difficulties. For more information on the locations of their clinics, visit their website above or send mail to Jed Baker, Ph.D., 29 Collinwood Road, Maplewood, New Jersey 07040 or send e-mail to: jandbbaker@aol.com.
North Carolina
TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children) is located at the University of North Carolina. The TEACCH approach includes a focus on the person with autism and the development of a program around this person's skills, interests, and needs. The major priorities include centering on the individual, understanding autism, adopting appropriate adaptations, and a broadly-based intervention strategy building on existing skills and interests. By focusing on the individual they mean that the person is the priority, rather than any philosophical notion like inclusion, discrete trial training, facilitated communication, etc. We emphasize individualized assessment to understand the individual better and also "the culture of autism," suggesting that people with autism are part of a distinctive group with common characteristics that are different, but not necessarily inferior, to the rest of us. The TEACCH mission is to:- To enable individuals with autism to function as meaningfully and as independently as possible in the community.
- To provide exemplary services throughout North Carolina to individuals with autism and their families and those who serve and support them.
- As a member of the University community, to generate knowledge; to integrate clinical services with relevant theory and research; and to disseminate information about theory, practice, and research on autism through training and publications locally, nationally and internationally.
TEACCH provides Supported Employment Services: contact - Mike Chapman at 919-966-8194 and Early Intervention Services: contact - Susan Boswell at 919-966-7003 or Beth Reynolds at 919-966-4885. TEACH has Regional Centers throughout North Carolina. For general information about the TEACCH program, please call them at (919) 966-2174, fax at (919) 966-4127, or send email to TEACCH@unc.edu
Washington
Northwest Center for Homeopathic Medicine offers homeopathic and naturopathic care of Asperger children. Drs. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman are Board certified with 25 years experience and authors of seven books including "A Drug-Free Approach to Asperger�s Syndrome: Exceptional Medicine for Exceptional Kids" with forward by Dr. Bernanrd Rimland. The Northwest Center for Homeopathic Medicine, is located in Edmonds, Washington. Phone and video consultation appointments are also available. Also, they sponsor the monthly Autism One radio show, phone: (425) 774-5599, email: nchmclinic@gmail.com
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