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On the Spectrum: Children and Autism is a 24-minute educational video, created in collaboration with the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community, Inc. (COSAC), and First Signs, Inc. The video outlines the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders, provides the guidelines for conducting a developmental screening, and describes how to relay developmental concerns to parents. Differences in development are vividly demonstrated through videotaped examples of typical and atypical behavior in children from four to thirty-six months of age. On the Spectrum draws upon clinical expertise, with interviews of some of the nation’s top experts in the field. - descriptions adapted from First Signs, Inc. website.