Editor’s Note

The special issue of the journal Autism and Developmental Disorders (Russia) includes publications of experts and speakers of the VI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Autism: Challenges and Solutions”, held in Moscow on April 19—21 2018.

Dear readers!
The special issue of the journal Autism and Developmental Disorders (Russia) includes publica-
tions of experts and speakers of the VI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Autism:
Challenges and Solutions”, held in Moscow on April 19—21 2018.
The editorial expresses gratitude to the autonomous non-profit organization “Center for Autism
Problems” and personally to its President Ekaterina Men’ for the contribution to the development of
a system of support to children with ASD in Russia and for the cooperation in formation of a spe-
cial issue of the journal. We also thank the speakers of the conference submitted articles to
present issue of the journal: S.M. Edelson, N. Rabbani, P.J. Thornalley, D.M. Dhossche, A. Dibari,
D. Rizzi and Svetlana Polyakova, Ph.D. in Biological Sciences.
The editorial also thanks the fellows of the scientific laboratory of the Federal Resource Center
of MSUPE for the assistance in preparing articles for publication.
We hope that the foreign and domestic scientific and practical experience in autism, published on
the pages of this issue of the Journal “Autism and Developmental Disorders (Russia)” will be sought
after by specialists, parents and the widest circle of readers who are not indifferent to this
acute social problem.
A.V. Khaustov