Library Guides: Autism & Behavioural Science: Welcome

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Special Education in Ontario Schools by Sheila Bennett, Don Dworet, Tiffany L. Gallagher, Monique Somma
Publication Date: 2019
Special Education in Ontario Schools has been used extensively in Teacher Education and Educational Assistants programs as a primary text to prepare educational professionals to work with students with special needs. We are excited to announce that while upholding the outstanding quality of the original text this new 8th edition has added a new chapter on Mental Health.

Proquest Databases
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health database containing full text, scholarly articles covering nursing and allied health topics.
Academic Search Premier
Multidisciplinary research database containing full text journals & magazines.
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
Health research database containing scholarly medical, clinical, biomedical and health care journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Online directory that provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals on a broad range of subjects.

Autism Insights
Coverage: 01/01/2009 - 12/31/2014
The Autism Insights journal is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that covers all aspects of the study of autism, encompassing etiology, diagnosis, biology and treatment.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Coverage: 09/01/1993 - present (Full Text Delay: 1 year) Original research, theoretical papers, critical reviews and brief reports on severe psychopathologies in childhood, not necessarily limited to autism and childhood schizophrenia.

Living With Autism
Imagine being able to list every country in the world and its capital city, remember what we ate for dinner on 9 March 2002 and every prime number up to 7,507. In this highly personal and emotional film, Horizon discovers how brains that see the world in strikingly different ways are unlocking the secrets of our own minds.
A Personal Journey Covering Autism 'In a Different Key'
Former Nightline correspondent John Donvan and producer Caren Zucker spent 15 years reporting on autism. An ABC News Production.
TED Talks: Ami Klin - A new way to Diagnose Autism
Ami Klin describes an early detection method that uses eye-tracking technologies to gauge babies' social engagement skills and reliably measure their risk of developing autism.
TEDTalks: Steve Silberman: The Forgotten History of Autism
Decades ago, few pediatricians had heard of autism. In 1975, 1 in 5,000 kids was estimated to have it. Today, 1 in 68 is on the autism spectrum. What caused this steep rise? Steve Silberman points to “a perfect storm of autism awareness” — a pair of psychologists with an accepting view, an unexpected pop culture moment and a new clinical test.
University of California Television
This is a list of videos on the topic of Autism from University of California Television (UCTV). They share educational and enrichment programming from the campuses, national laboratories, and affiliated institutions of the University of California