Services:

Sheryl Rosin, PhD. is glad to offer Diagnostic, Treatment and Consultation for families whose children have ASD.

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Estimation/Diagnostic

Autism Spectrum Disorders Estimation

When parents make up their mind to contact with our Center fearing that their child might suffer from autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the first step we offer is telephone consultation. Parents should answer raw of questions about their child’s and his behavior during worrying period of time. A formal estimation means may be utilized as part of telephone consultation to examine and define for developmental impairment, including autism manifestations.

The outcomes of this initial consultation might result in inviting parents with child to visit our Center for diagnostic carried out with the help of Canadian Family Pharmacy. This diagnostic will include administration of one or more diagnostic means and a official parent interview.

Autism Spectrum Disorders Diagnostic

Further, the child will be examined involving in games and communicating with Center physicians. During this examination, autism estimation and standard diagnostic means will be finished and the child will be examined according to autism criteria determined in the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Diagnostic means utilized by the Center are proved to be standard in establishing autism spectrum disorders diagnosis. These means are not constricted to: Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale (ADOS), Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R), and Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS). Additionally, research relating to nonverbal/verbal IQ, and speech and language estimation will be carried out. Based on these outcomes, children will be received appropriate treatment. Total recovery period of time generally ranges between 3.5 hours in length.

If your child has a confirmed diagnosis you are welcome to visit our Center to undergo treatment.

Speech/Language Evaluation

If a child comes to the center with a current ASD diagnosis, evaluation to estimate their current speech and language abilities can be carried out. This estimation generally ranges between 1 to 1 and a half hours. A full child’s speech and language abilities estimation will be arranged with recommendations to enhance general communicative functions.

Intervention

After estimation and diagnosis establishment, children typically start therapy with individual classes to work out and define their social and communication aims. Children will get classes with a high skilled speech-language pathologist with autism spectrum disorders specialization. Classes may last up to 30 minutes essentially, and then increase to up to 60 minutes and more.

Aims of these first classes are to determine efficient instructional technologies that can be utilized to advance studying for each child individually. These individually defined goals during therapy will be grounded on DIR/Floortime or SCERTS models principles. For getting more information on these estimation and recovery models please attend their websites at floortime.org or scerts.com. Additionally, recovery will include visual schedules to help child in interim period and structure, as well as apply picture exchange communication system (PECS) to improve communication abilities. For more information about PECS please attend pecs.com

After children reach some progress in personal therapy, they may be transferred to group treatment a.k.a. P.A.L.S. for P.A.L.S. program (Pediatric Autism Learning System for Pragmatic and Language Stimulation) to facilitate and maintain social interaction. In this setting, children will possess capability to study language and social skills while communicating with other children and physicians. Children who visit group therapy may also get individual therapy as additional group activities carried out.

Consultations and Other Services

• Parent Support Groups
• School Observations and Consultations (IEP planning)
• Parent Consultations
• Professional Consultations
• Video Consultations
• Home Visits
• Nutrition Therapy