Autism treatment requires a collaborative patient-doctor relationship

My family’s world changed instantly upon receiving Annie’s diagnosis of apraxia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) a day before her second birthday. Hearing three words, “she has autism,” we suddenly faced a lifetime of uncertainty. I knew that I had to embrace my role as a mother of a child with autism, and as an autism champion — and more critically, find a physician that I could form a trusted …

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