Raphael Bernier is professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington and clinical director of the Seattle Children’s Autism Center.
Raphael Bernier
Assistant Professor
University of Washington, Seattle
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Through play, children with autism can hone thinking skills
Clinicians can use play to deliver therapies that could improve a child’s social skills, language and certain cognitive capacities.
Through play, children with autism can hone thinking skills
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31 May 2016 | 6 min read
Best practices
Guidelines for the use of electroencephalography in autism will ensure that researchers have a common set of standards, which will speed up discovery, say Sara Jane Webb and Raphael Bernier.
How do we measure autism severity?
Accurately measuring the severity of autism remains a challenge for the field. The answer may lie in using more than one approach that varies depending on whether it is being applied in a clinical or research context, says Raphael Bernier.
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