About Autismo Claro, in English
What this site is and how its facts get checked, for English speakers who want to share it with a Spanish-speaking family.
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Autismo Claro is a free Spanish-language guide for parents of children with autism, ADHD or developmental delays. Every other page is in Spanish, because that is who it is for.
If you are a teacher, a social worker, a pediatrician or a case manager, you probably reached this page for one reason: you have a Spanish-speaking family in front of you and you want to hand them something you can vouch for.
Why it exists
Official information for these families does exist in Spanish. Getting to it is the problem. As of September 2026, the New York State Department of Health page on autism, in Spanish, says autism affects 1 in 68 children. The CDC put the figure at 1 in 31 in 2025. The English version of the same page carries the current number.
Where it is current, it is often a PDF, or it sits on a separate Spanish subdomain. Searching in Spanish for early intervention in New York in September 2026, a television station came up ahead of the state agency itself.
What is in it
- Guides that answer one concrete question each, in plain Spanish: early signs by age, how to request an evaluation, what an IEP is, what therapies have evidence behind them.
- A page for each of the 50 US states, plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, and for 20 Latin American countries: which agency handles it, what to ask for, and where.
- A dictionary of the acronyms that fill the paperwork, from IEP and IDEA to SSI and ABA, explained in Spanish.
- A printable notebook to fill in for two or three weeks before the appointment.
How the facts are checked
- Every guide is written from scratch. Nothing is copied from other sites.
- A phone number, an address or an opening time is published only if the organization that runs the service publishes it itself. Never an aggregator. A wrong number on a crisis page does more harm than no number at all.
- Sources are listed and linked at the end of every guide, so you can check them yourself.
- When something cannot be verified, it is left out and the gap is stated. Not publishing beats publishing something shaky.
What it is not
It is not medical advice, and nothing here replaces a professional who has met the child. It is not a government body: no affiliation with the CDC, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Education or any agency in any country. It is written by one person, not a company or a foundation. There are no agreements with clinics or laboratories, and no therapy is sold here. Reading it is free and always will be. If affiliate links are ever needed to cover the cost, they will be labeled plainly and they will not change what gets recommended. Nothing gets onto the materials page because of a commission.
Reading the rest of the site
Every other page is in Spanish. Your browser can translate any of them: Chrome, Edge and Safari offer it on their own, or you can right-click and choose Translate. The site declares its language properly, so this works everywhere. Machine translation will get the sense across; the Spanish is what was written and checked.
If you know a reliable public resource for a country or a state that is thin here, write in. It gets checked against the agency that publishes it, and credited. Tracking those down is the slowest part of this work.