Autism Resources

Easterseals is the nation’s leading provider of services for children and adults with autism.

Locally, Easterseals Central Alabama, is proud to offer our Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Clinic, with short wait times and feedback in a timely manner.  Easterseals also offers Speech Therapy as an intervention to communication challenges as well as Pediatric Occupational Therapy and Food School.

  • According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website, currently, 1 in 68 children have autism.
  • According to Autism Speaks, more children will be diagnosed with autism this year than AIDS, diabetes, and cancer combined and that a new case of autism is diagnosed every twenty minutes.
  • The Alabama Autism Task Force recently identified those children with autism who participated in intensive early intervention services before three and a half years of age were reported to have significantly better outcomes than children who did not receive services until five years of age.
  • The CDC considers autism a disorder that is “an urgent health problem in need of targeted public health action” (The Birmingham News, January 24, 2008).

 

To learn about autism please check out the resources below:

Autism Society of Alabama

Autism Society of America

Autism Speaks

The Centers for Disease Control Autism Information Center

The P.L.A.Y Project

National Autism Association

ReThink Autism

Alabama Interagency Autism Coordinating Council 

 

 

Local Resources:

Family Guidance Center

211 Connects Alabama

The Learning Tree

Easterseals Central Alabama

Disability as an Ability Towards Success: Moms on the Move (D.A.T.S.M.O.M.)

Alabama Parent Education Center (APEC)

Regional Autism Network (RAN)

AAlabama Department of Rehabilitation Services (ADRS)

Alabama’s Early Intervention Program