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
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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