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ADA combines Developmental Psychology – which recognizes that people change across a lifetime of experience in unique ways – with a range of different therapeutic disciplines and approaches aimed …

Functional assessment of behavior provides hypotheses about the relationships between specific environmental events and behaviors. Decades of research has established that both desirable and …

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The disorder is named for Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette, the pioneering French neurologist who in 1885 first described the condition in an 86-year-old French noblewoman. The early symptoms of TS …

Real Families is a window into the private lives of families from all walks of life. The viewer is allowed to peek in as noted developmental psychologist Dr. Michael Weiss helps families solve common but …

Punishment is sometimes used for treatment programs in applied behavior analysis in the most extreme cases, to reduce dangerous behaviors such as head banging or biting exhibited by most commonly …

There is no cure for Williams Syndrome, nor is there a standard course of treatment. Because WS is an uncommon and complex disorder, multidisciplinary clinics have been established at several centers …

A "Functional Developmental Assessment" (FDA) is a means of evaluating a persons developmental status relying on interviews of individuals close to the person being assess and time spent directly …

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines Multiple Disabilities as number of identifiable disabilities, the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they …