Autism is a neurodevelopmental difference in how a person perceives and interacts with the world. It can involve challenges in social communication and interaction, alongside focused interests and repetitive behaviors. We provide affirming care that honors the unique strengths of autistic individuals while offering support for their specific challenges.
Common Symptoms or Things to Look Out For:
- Social communication/interaction deficits:
- Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity
- Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors
- Deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships
- Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior:
- Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech
- Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines
- Highly restricted, fixated interests of abnormal intensity
- Hyper- or hypo-reactivity to sensory input
- Symptoms present in early developmental period
- Symptoms cause significant impairment in functioning