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Introduction
Welcome to the ASD Video Glossary, an innovative web-based tool designed to help parents and professionals learn more about the early red flags and diagnostic features of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
This glossary contains over a hundred video clips and is available to you free of charge. Whether you are a parent, family member, friend, physician, clinician, childcare provider, or educator, it can help you see the subtle differences between typical and delayed development in young children and spot the early red flags for ASD. All of the children featured in the
ASD Video Glossary as having red flags for ASD are, in fact, diagnosed with ASD.
Please keep in mind that there are many presenting features associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) that are depicted in the video clips you are about to see. However, most children do not show all of the features all of the time. Instead, many children have some of the features some of the time. Awareness of these common presenting features may help to heighten your index of suspicion. Individually, they may not indicate a problem; however, in combination, they may indicate a need to conduct a screening or a diagnostic evaluation. Not all signs and features need be present for ASD to be diagnosed. Please note: the
ASD Video Glossary is not a diagnostic tool.
System Check
Click here to see the System Check information. Make sure your computer is configured to run the
ASD Video Glossary. FAQs may also provide answers to your technical questions about using the ASD Video Glossary.
How to Use
The ASD Video Glossary is easy to use and very intuitive.
Important: If you have a pop-up blocker enabled on your system please turn it off before proceeding. Click on the "FAQ's" tab above for instructions to turn off your pop-up blocker.
To launch the ASD Video Glossary,
click the button below or use the "Login" tab at the top of this page.
Roll over the navigational buttons and a
brief overview of the topic area content appears in the area at
the top right.
Click on the navigational button to enter the topic area. Additional content areas appear under each topic and clicking on them presents more video clips to view. Click the “Play” button for the video clip you'd like to view once it has completed loading. Many of the content areas have more than one pair of video clips to view. Click on the number in the center gold box between the video players to select another pair of video clips to view.
Also, you may browse specific glossary terms by clicking on the "Glossary of Terms" tab at the top of this page. For many of the terms described, there is a link directly to the video clips in the
ASD Video Glossary that best illustrate the terms.
User Agreement
Content within the ASD Video Glossary is copyrighted by Florida State University and First Signs, Inc. By registering to use the
ASD Video Glossary, you agree not to download, post, copy, distribute, or create derivative works based on this material, without the permission of Florida State University and/or First Signs, Inc. Further, we ask you to respect the privacy of the children and families who are portrayed in the video clips.
Credits
The ASD Video Glossary was created by Amy M. Wetherby, PhD, Director of Florida State University FIRST WORDS® Project and Nancy D. Wiseman, Founder and President of First Signs®. Technical support was provided by Steve Barnes, Florida State University. Site architecture and design by Gold n Fish Marketing Group; programming by WhiteBlox. Funding was provided by Autism Speaks, The Joseph LeRoy & Ann C. Warner Fund, and WhiteBlox.
Special Acknowledgments
Our deepest gratitude goes to the families and clinicians who participated in this video project. It is because of your generosity that so many other families and professionals throughout the world will be able to learn from your children. And a heartfelt ”Thank You” to the panel of professionals and parents who reviewed the ASD Video Glossary, including Peter Bell, Lisa Goring, Rebecca Landa, PhD, Catherine Lord, PhD, Audrey Mars, MD, Tracy McDonald, Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, Catherine Rice, PhD, Wendy Stone, PhD, and Audrey Thurm, PhD.
First Signs is a
national non-profit organization dedicated to educating parents
and professionals about the early signs of autism and other
developmental disorders through public awareness and training.
Funding for On the Spectrum: Children and Autism, from which
video clips were selected for use in the ASD Video Glossary, was
provided by Cure Autism Now (CAN), New Jersey Governor's Council
on Autism at UMDNJ, and Parents of Autistic Children (POAC).
FIRST WORDS Project is a prospective, longitudinal research investigation at Florida State University designed to identify early red flags of ASD from videotapes of children screened under the age of 24 months who are later diagnosed with ASD. Funding for their research was provided by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Phillips Endowment, Todd and Annie Trimmer, and Delta Airlines.
Autism
Speaks is dedicated to
increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders, to funding
research into the causes, prevention, treatments and cure for
autism, and to advocating for the needs of affected families. It
was founded in February 2005 by Suzanne and Bob Wright, the
grandparents of a child with autism. Bob Wright is Vice
Chairman, General Electric, and served as chief executive
officer of NBC for more than twenty years. Autism Speaks has
merged with both the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR)
and Cure Autism Now (CAN), bringing together the nation's three
leading autism advocacy organizations.
ASD Video Glossary || Copyright © 2007 by Autism Speaks Inc., Florida State University, and First Signs, Inc. All rights reserved. FIRST WORDS Project & Design are trademarks owned by Florida State University. First Signs & Design are trademarks owned by First Signs, Inc. ASD Video Glossary text copyright © by Florida State University and First Signs, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright in the ASD Video Glossary video clips contained herein is the property of Florida State University or First Signs, Inc., as designated thereon. |
