I remember the call from the psychologist who had completed my daughter’s neuropsychological test: “She is very intelligent, so it’s difficult to measure her IQ accurately.” That sounded like good news. Then there was the “but …”. My seven year old daughter, who initially enjoyed the challenge of the test, got bored and frustrated and […]
As a pediatrician and mother, I have spent the last 16 months experiencing COVID through the lens of the havoc it is wreaking on children and families. I remember the first few months during the first wave of New York City where children were locked in apartments watching their loved ones suffer and die as […]
It has traditionally been believed that people with autism have difficulty identifying people’s emotions from their facial expressions, which can be a factor that may be involved in the behavioral and social problems that people on the spectrum frequently experience. However, recent research shows that people with autism are actually pretty good at reading facial […]
