Pica in Autism: Why Some Children Eat Non-Food Items

A mother in Longmont called us about her four-year-old and opened with an apology. She thought she was overreacting. He had always mouthed things, she said, and lately it had shifted to gravel from the driveway. That morning she found a small rock in his diaper. She was not overreacting. What she described is pica, […]