Barbara Quinn is a Nurse Clinician at the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Albany Medical College. She has a graduate degree in Educational Psychology. She is a freelance writer who brings sixteen years of nursing experience and work with families to her writing.
Pervasive developmental disorder, or PDD, is the umbrella term used to cover the whole family of autistic spectrum disorders - including autism and Asperger syndrome. PDD covers such a wide spectrum,... (more)
Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is the umbrella term used to describe a whole family of related conditions. Within this group, there is a subgroup of conditions known as PDD (NOS) - Pervasive... (more)