Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is defined as when an individual goes to great lengths to evade or ignore “demands.” Although PDA is not a formal mental health diagnosis listed in the Diagnostic ...

Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is an extreme resistance to everyday demands, such as getting dressed or brushing the teeth. Researchers often associate PDA with autism, especially in children.

For Jenny and her young daughter, Milly, being diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), "changed everything at home" and was a "light-bulb moment" for the family. Milly would become ...

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Visual System Brain Development Implicated in Infants who Develop Autism UNC School of Medicine researchers used MRI to document crucial differences in the visual processing system in the brains of ...

A new study published reports that social deficits in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) correlate with early structural and connectivity traits particularly in the visual ...

Is your child strong-willed, or trying to charm their way out of doing the chores? It could be a sign of PDA ALL children throw tantrums if they don’t want to do something – empty the dishwasher, lay ...

The way people with autism see and process the body language of others could be preventing them from gaging people's feelings, according to new research. The way people with autism see and process the ...

Sophie, a 10-year-old, avoids straightforward tasks like getting dressed or doing homework. When her parents press her to comply, she might have a meltdown or withdraw to her room. At school, Sophie ...

When 11-year-old Milly and her mum Jenny arrived at the school principal's office, Jenny's heart sank. There were more people there this time than usual — and she knew this would be a problem for her ...