ABA Therapy and Autism in Girls: What Parents and Families Need to Know
At a Glance Why girls are often diagnosed later: Autism is diagnosed 3x more often in boys than girls — not because it’s less common in girls, but because the diagnostic tools and clinical frameworks were built on male presentations. Girls often mask their autistic traits in ways that delay recognition for years. What masking […]
Getting an Autism Diagnosis as an Adult: What It Means and What Comes Next
Receiving an autism diagnosis as an adult is one of those moments that splits time in two — everything before it, and everything after. For many people, especially parents who first heard the words “your child has autism” and then slowly started to recognize themselves in those same descriptions, the moment is layered with emotions […]