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Measuring autism treatment progress beyond therapy hours

One of the things I value most in medicine is our ability to ask a seemingly simple question: Is the treatment working? In many areas of medicine, we have objective measures that help us answer it. When caring for a…

One of the things I value most in medicine is our ability to ask a seemingly simple question: Is the treatment working?

In many areas of medicine, we have objective measures that help us answer it. When caring for a child with diabetes, we can follow hemoglobin A1C. When managing hypertension, we monitor blood pressure. Those measurements do not replace the physician’s judgment or the patient’s experience. They give us another …

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Measuring autism treatment progress beyond therapy hours