The government has set aside $186 million for children and youth with autistic spectrum disorder, $25 million of that is new money for areas such as early diagnosis.
He was best known for developing the influential floortime approach for treating children with autistic spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.
Sometimes they are diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, specific learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorder, or a combination of these conditions and others.
The researchers were looking at the genes affected by one specific group of rare genetic variations that had been found in 181 people with autistic spectrum disorder.
