We were once really good friends. There was this girl in my class who I called an "attention whore", because she is. He went and told her what I said. Now she constantly harasses me about it, all thanks to him. Then he stops talking to me and started telling people that he hates me when I did...
Say what you will about the Miss America pageant (like how it sexualizes women and perpetuates our society's unhealthy obsession with body image), but they are doing something really awesome right now: They have announced their first-ever contestant with autism. Meet Alexis Wineman. The...
I have a five year old with autism. His developmental level is under two years. Can someone recommend some good speech apps and other essentials? Thanks
Siblings of those diagnosed with autism are more than 20 times as likely as members of the general population to also have autism. Some of these siblings also show evidence of autism-like but less marked cognitive and social communication problems. This suggests that autism has either an...
Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Department of Psychology participated in a multi-site study to examine different teaching models for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The study is one of the first to look at the fidelity of treatment models for preschoolers with autism...
A new study from Cambridge University, funded by the Medical Research Council, has found for the first time that female-to-male transsexual people have a higher than average number of autistic traits. The study has important implications for the clinical management of biological girls with...
Need cheap/free app I can download to use on a android phone (not iphone) for a non verbal child to use for communication. We use pecs & boardmaker at home but need to have something on the phone
As a result of severe autism and learning disabilities, eleven-year-old Callum Lodge is unable to talk. In order to allow his son to communicate with the world around him, his father has developed Speaks4me, an electronic communication system. More »
It is a common perception that autistics are bad at writing fiction. How true is this? I know of one fantasy author who is autistic. Any other fiction authors who are autistic, have aspergers or autistic trait. Please could I have name of author and which category they come into.
Well, sometimes I am worried of finding the right person as most people tend to prefer the ones with cheerful and talkative characteristic. Moreover, I am a closet one, so it gives me even less chance.