Autism Care and Treatment (ACT) Today! is a national nonprofit organization that aims to spread awareness about autism treatments and to provide help to those who need it most. It provides funds to families who need financial aid for the treatment of their children. It helps children with autism get…

The UnitedHealthcare Children\’s Foundation is a non-profit organization that helps cover the treatment expenses of children with autism who do not have health insurance. This foundation understands the needs of children who may not get the required treatment due to the lack of health benefit plan coverage. The UnitedHealthcare Children’s…

The National Autism Association is a non-profit organization that aims to respond to the immediate requirement of the autism community. It seeks to help the individuals affected by autism so that they can develop their potential to the highest level.

Syndromal autism is associated with severe or profound mental retardation or a congenital syndrome with physical symptoms, such as tuberous sclerosis.

Unlike with autism, people with Asperger syndrome have no substantial delay in language development.

Weak central coherence theory hypothesizes that a limited ability to see the big picture underlies the central disturbance in autism.

Executive dysfunction hypothesizes that autistic behavior results in part from deficits in working memory, planning, inhibition, and other forms of executive function.

The theory of mind approach, which hypothesizes that autistic behavior arises from an inability to ascribe mental states to oneself and others.

The extreme male brain theory hypothesizes that autism is an extreme case of the male brain, defined psychometrically as individuals in whom systemizing is better than empathizing

The empathizing–systemizing theory postulates that autistic individuals can develop internal rules of operation to handle events inside the brain, but are less effective at empathizing by handling events generated by other agents