This organization provides clinical care for children and families; research on effective treatments in the science of healthy brain development; comprehensive information and resources to educate and empower parents; and advocacy work to help remove the stigma about childhood psychiatric disorders.
View the Website – The Child Mind Institute.
This page offers the toll free helpline number that TSA offers for travelers who may have questions about screening policies, airport procedures and security checkpoints. It is dedicated to assisting travelers with disabilities.
View the Website – Transportation Security Administration: TSA Cares.
This page explains about the program for screening individuals with disabilities and their associated medical equipment. It includes a list of items that permitted through the checkpoint and a list of prescription liquid medications. It also gives resources on how to contact the TSA if you are planning on traveling and need assistance.
View the Website – Transportation Security Administration: Travelers with Disabilities and Medical Conditions.
This web page defines respite care and how it might be used to alleviate caregiver stress. It talked about planning for respite care and different types of respite care.
View the Website – About.com: Respite Care: Offers Caregivers a Needed Break.
This web page offers suggestions and guidelines to job seekers and service providers working with job seekers about when to disclose about a disability and who to inform. It discusses information about how to discuss a disability and related reasonable accommodations at and after a job interview and job offer. It also offers information about what an employer can and cannot legally inquire about regarding any disabilities.
View the Website – MassWorks: Disclosure of Disability: Before the Job Interview? After? Or Never?
This web page gives ideas on how to arrange furniture, how to use safety locks, how to make electrical outlets and appliances safe, what to do in case of an emergency, fire safety, and intervention techniques to teach safety to your child.
View the Website – Autism Society: Safety In The Home.
Self-Management contains three components to implement appropriately. Self monitoring, self-evaluation, and self-reinforcement. Having an individual actively participate in changing his/her own behavior may be the key to reducing or eliminating behaviors as well as to maintain appropriate behaviors.
View the Website – Autism Research Institute: Self-Management.
Temple Grandin lists six ways to make the transition successfully. Gradual transitions, supportive employers, mentors, educating employers and employees about autism and other disabilities are topics she covers in this article. Two others pieces of advice she gives are make a portfolio of your work and sell your talent not your personality.
View the Website – Autism Research Institute: Making the Transition from the World of School into the World of Work.
Introduction to Yale’s Autism Seminar is a free on-line, undergraduate course for anyone who desires to learn about Autism Spectrum Disorders. There are videos and audio available for viewing and listening on the website.
View the Multimedia – Yale University: Introduction to Yale’s Autism Seminar.
This television show is dedicated to the autism community. It is recently produced a pilot from Flying Pigs Studios in West Palm Beach Florida. The host, Daniel Heinlein, is an individual on the autism spectrum and his goal is to show the face of autism as he presents a wide variety of people of all ages on the spectrum. The show will also include reports from autism researchers and scientists seeking the causes of autism spectrum disorders.
View the Multimedia – I Am Autistic Television Show.
