A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent, Family Member, and Teacher Needs to Know Although in many ways this is a positive development it also presents challenges to families and practitioners who want to keep up with the latest developments and are left to sift through new inform
FRED R. Volkmar, MD, is the Director of the Yale Child Study Center and coauthor of the Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Third Edition, published by Wiley.
LISA A. WIESNER, MD, is a pediatrician in private practice in Orange, Connecticut.¿ She is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale who has research experience with autism.
