Autism, PDD and ADHD Resources
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Explore resources for autism/developmental disabilities, ADHD, and other childhood disorders. View links to helpful websites, previews of useful literature, and ordering information. |
Autism/Developmental Disabilities Literature || ADHD Literature || Research Instruments
Project MED || Service Guidelines || International Consensus Handbook
Project MED (Educational booklets with Basic information on medication and patient rights)
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- Project MED" (Medical Education for Consumers) was created with funding from the U.S. Administration on Developmental Disabilities. The goal of project MED is to provide patients with information, in a manner that they can understand, about the medications that they are taking.
- The booklets are designed for a broad group of people taking medications: people with mental retardation, autism, or reading difficulties, patients with severe mental illness, child and adolescent patients, and people whose first language is not English. By providing this information, we hope to increase each patient's participation in his or her own health care.
- The series consists of eight booklets. The booklets were written to provide the basic information about patients' rights and about medications in easily understood words. There are few medical or legal words, and difficult words are defined.
- To learn more about the booklets, order them, or find out more information on the Internet for patients with these conditions, please make a choice from the menu above.
For further information, including a preview of the table of contents and ordering information, click here or contact us at info@project-med.org |
Service Guidelines for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder/PDD (PDF)
- The Ohio Autism Task Force developed the Autism Service Guidelines to provide assistance to families and professionals.
- The Guidelines concern young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder/Pervasive Developmental Disorder, birth through 21 years of age.
- These guidelines include a description of autism spectrum disorder, medical concerns, assessment, and strategies for developing independent living skills, social skills, and instructional strategies.
- They also give guidance for assessment, treatment, and developing educational programs.
- Electronic form (PDF) can be downloaded with Adobe Acrobat Reader 
The International Consensus Handbook
Steven Reiss and Michael G. Aman, Editors,
The Ohio State University Nisonger Center
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This comprehesive and authoritative reference book was developed to provide information on psychotropic medicines with patients with MR/DD.
It may be used for helping physicians learn about observations and opinions, to provide useful information to consumers, and to help identify extreme, idosyncratic, inappropriate, or abusive practices.
For order, please contact psychmed@osu.edu for more information. For a preview of the table of contents click here. |
Professional's Guide || Family's Guide || Parents' Survival Handbook
Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder®
by L. Eugene Arnold, M.Ed., M.D.,
The Ohio State University Nisonger Center
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A child psychiatrist who has specialized in ADHD for 35 years and is one
of the OSU RUPP investigators, Dr. L. Eugene Arnold has just published
the third edition of this authoritative reference, which thoroughly reviews the complexities of ADHD diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. Treatments described include various medications, behavioral treatments, and alternative/complementary treatments such as nutritional/dietary.
This 200 page book was written for physicians and other clinical professionals.
It is now available for order at www.hhcbooks.com or by calling HHC Books
at 1-800-860-9544. Price $19.95.
Click here to view the table of contents for this third edition of the professional's guide in PDF.
Electronic form (PDF) can be downloaded with Adobe Acrobat Reader |
A Family's Guide to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
by L. Eugene Arnold, M.Ed., M.D.,
The Ohio State University Nisonger Center
Parents' Survival Handbook
by L. Eugene Arnold, M.Ed., M.D.
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A readable distillation of practical insights into child rearing presented with tongue-in-cheek humor and addressing many common problems often avoided by other books. A combination of modern behavioral science, folk wisdom, and common sense, emphasizing practicality, efficiency and what works rather than what ought to be or not be.
Though written by an expert, the book approaches problems from the vantage point of identification with parents and advocates parents rights as one of the best protections of true children's rights. It supports parents in using their common sense to salvage what is worthwhile from the barrage of advice on child rearing offered by the media, relatives and neighbors -- without feeling guilty.
View the table of contents by clicking here.
To order, complete this form and mail with Check or Money Order to: Ramsey & Associates, 28100 Cavallo Rd., Danville, OH 43014. Price: $5.95 + $2.00 for shipping. |
The Developmental Disabilities Children’s Global Assessment Scale (DDCGAS)
The DDCGAS is a general tool for assessing the overall composite of adaptive and maladaptive behavior of children and adolescents with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders. It can be used to assess the effects of pharmacological and psychosocial treatments
The Nisonger Child Behavior Rating Form (NCBRF)
The NCBRF is a standardized instrument for assessing child and adolescent behavior. Two "levels" of the NCBRF (one for children with MR/DD and one for normally developing children) are available.The first level is called the NCBRF (developed in 1996), which was derived for children with developmental disabilities, namely those with mental retardation and/or autism spectrum disorders. There are two versions of the NCBRF, one for completion by parents and one for teacher ratings. These are similar to one another, but the scoring systems differ slightly.
To view the user agreement, instructions, and downloadable PDF versions of the NCBRF and NCBRF-NIQ, click here.
The OSU Autism Rating Scale-DSM-IV (OARS-4) & OSU Autism CGI
The OSU Autism Rating Scale-DSM-IV (OARS-4) and OSU Autism CGI were developed to provide four types of summary scores: (a) A weighted score based on severity of autism or autism spectrum symptoms derived from clinical interview; (b) A symptom count, based on the same interview; (c) A global severity scale for autism, which takes autism spectrum and related symptoms (e.g., compulsions, problems transitioning, SIB) into account; and (d) A global improvement scale for autism. The four indices appear in the Word file available for download. Investigators and clinicians may make free copies.
The Repetitive Behavior Scale - Revised: Scale and Poster
Alternative Score Form for the Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revised
The Repetitive Behavior Rating Scale - Revised: Independent validation and the effects of subject variables." Poster presented at Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Annapolis, MD, March 17-19, 2005.
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