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Video Glossary site has been completed. If you have
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Glossary, you will need to re-register to gain access
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If you are a professional who is interested
in showing these video clips in an upcoming presentation or
training session, you may do so by linking your computer
directly to the ASD Video Glossary
on the Internet when you train or present. Alternatively, you
can order a copy of the DVD, On the
Spectrum: Children and Autism, a 24-minute educational
video that shows side-by-side clips of typical and atypical
development. Some of these clips are used in the
ASD Video
Glossary. For ordering information,
click here.
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.
System Check
Click here to see the System
Check information. Make sure your computer is configured to run
the ASD Video Glossary. FAQs may
also provide answers to your technical questions about using the
ASD Video Glossary.
How to Use
The ASD Video Glossary is easy to use and very intuitive.
Important: If you have a pop-up blocker enabled on your system please turn it off before proceeding. Click on the
“FAQs” tab above for instructions to turn off your pop-up blocker.
To launch the ASD Video Glossary,
click the button below or use the
“Login” tab at the top of this page.
If you have previously registered to use the
ASD Video Glossary, you will need to
re-register to access it again. We apologize for this
inconvenience.
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 “Play” 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 WORDS® Project and Nancy D. Wiseman, Founder and President
of First Signs®. 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., 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 Signs®
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 WORDS® 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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2009 by Autism Speaks Inc., Florida State University, and First
Signs, Inc. All rights reserved. FIRST WORDS Project & Design
are trademarks owned by Florida State University. First Signs &
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ASD Video Glossary text copyright ©
by Florida State University and First Signs, Inc. All rights
reserved. Copyright in the ASD Video Glossary video clips
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