Autism Testing & 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) testing. Easterseals also offers Speech Therapy as an intervention to communication challenges as well as Pediatric Occupational Therapy and Food School.
Easterseals Central Alabama’s Autism testing starts for children as young as 18 months old, but we also test teens and adults, as well. A speech and occupational therapy evaluation will be completed prior to the ADOS psychological testing. Results are back in a timely manner so interventions can begin right away.
- 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:
The Centers for Disease Control Autism Information Center
Alabama Interagency Autism Coordinating Council
Local Resources:
Disability as an Ability Towards Success: Moms on the Move (D.A.T.S.M.O.M.)
Alabama Parent Education Center (APEC)
