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Developing a comprehensive treatment program can be challenging given the various needs that a child with autism spectrum disorder or neurodevelopmental disorder with comorbid obesity may experience and the resources that may or may not be available to the healthcare provider. There are some stage 3 weight management treatment programs that have been developed with specialized treatments for children with neurodevelopmental disorders or autism spectrum disorder. This chapter will review one such program, the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Healthy Weight Center and how this program developed and what can be learned for its development.
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Cadieux, A.M. (2017). Developing a Comprehensive Treatment Program. In: Assessing and Treating Pediatric Obesity in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55924-7_10
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