ASD Video Glossary Visually Shows Early Red Flags for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the ASD Video Glossary, an innovative web-based tool designed to help parents and professionals learn more about the early red flags and diagnostic features of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

This glossary contains over a hundred video clips and is available to you free of charge. Whether you are a parent, family member, friend, physician, clinician, childcare provider, or educator, it can help you see the subtle differences between typical and delayed development in young children and spot the early red flags for ASD. All of the children featured in the ASD Video Glossary as having red flags for ASD are, in fact, diagnosed with ASD.

Please keep in mind that there are many presenting features associated with ASD that are depicted in the video clips you are about to see. However, most children do not show all of the features all of the time. Instead, many children have some of the features some of the time. Awareness of these common presenting features may help to heighten your index of suspicion. Individually, they may not indicate a problem; however, in combination, they may indicate a need to conduct a screening or a diagnostic evaluation. Not all signs and features need be present for ASD to be diagnosed. Please note: the ASD Video Glossary is not a diagnostic tool.

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Roll over the navigational buttons and a brief overview of the topic area appears at the top right.

Click on the navigational button to enter the topic area. Additional content areas appear under each topic and clicking on them presents more video clips to view. Click the â€œPlayâ€ button for the video clip you'd like to view once it has completed loading. Many of the content areas have more than one pair of video clips to view. Click on the number in the center gold box between the video players to select another pair of video clips to view.

Also, you may browse specific glossary terms by clicking on the "Glossary of Terms" tab at the top of this page. For many of the terms described, there is a link directly to the video clips in the ASD Video Glossary that best illustrate the terms.

USER AGREEMENT

Content within the ASD Video Glossary is copyrighted by Florida State University and First Signs, Inc. By registering to use the ASD Video Glossary, you agree not to download, post, copy, distribute, or create derivative works based on this material, without the permission of Florida State University and/or First Signs, Inc. Further, we ask you to respect the privacy of the children and families who are portrayed in the video clips.

CREDITS

The ASD Video Glossary was created by Amy M. Wetherby, PhD, Director of Florida State University FIRST WORDSÂ® Project and Nancy D. Wiseman, Founder and President of First SignsÂ®. Technical support was provided by Steve Barnes, Florida State University. Site architecture and design by Gold n Fish Marketing Group; programming by Abacast, Inc.. Funding was provided by Autism Speaks, The Joseph LeRoy & Ann C. Warner Fund, John Leopold Weil and Geraldine Rickard Weil Memorial Charitable Foundation, Inc., Mary and Daniel Loughran Foundation, and Abacast, Inc.

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Our deepest gratitude goes to the families and clinicians who participated in this video project. It is because of your generosity that so many other families and professionals throughout the world will be able to learn from your children. And a heartfelt "Thank You" to the panel of professionals and parents who reviewed the ASD Video Glossary, including Peter Bell, Lisa Goring, Rebecca Landa, PhD, Catherine Lord, PhD, Audrey Mars, MD, Tracy McDonald, Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, Catherine Rice, PhD, Wendy Stone, PhD, and Audrey Thurm, PhD.

First SignsÂ® is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating parents and professionals about the early signs of autism and related disorders through public awareness and training. Funding for On the Spectrum: Children and Autism, from which video clips were selected for use in the ASD Video Glossary, was provided by Cure Autism Now (CAN), New Jersey Governor's Council on Autism at UMDNJ, and Parents of Autistic Children (POAC).

FIRST WORDSÂ® Project is a prospective, longitudinal research investigation at Florida State University designed to identify early red flags of ASD from videotapes of children screened under the age of 24 months who are later diagnosed with ASD. Funding for their research was provided by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Phillips Endowment, Todd and Annie Trimmer, and Delta Airlines.

Autism Speaks is the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. Autism Speaks was founded in February 2005 by Suzanne and Bob Wright, the grandparents of a child with autism. Bob Wright is Senior Advisor at Lee Equity Partners and served as vice chairman, General Electric, and chief executive officer of NBC and NBC Universal for more than twenty years. He also serves on the board of directors of the Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation and RAND Corporation. Suzanne Wright has an extensive history of active involvement in community and philanthropic endeavors, mostly directed toward helping children. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations and is also Trustee Emeritus of Sarah Lawrence College, her alma mater.

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