The outdoors are a good place to rejuvenate, reset, and find peace of mind. A state park in... The post New Nature Trail at New York State Park Aims to Bring the Outdoors to Those with Autism appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

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By Nils Skudra One film that I have been moved to watch numerous times is Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, a 2010 biographical depiction of King George VI of Great Britain and the struggle to overcome his speech impediment. I felt that this would be a prime candidate for a film review since people or…

Four-year-old Leon Kirby-Bulner has autism and struggles to communicate. He never showed a true connection or interest in... The post Four-Year-Old with Autism is Brought Out of His ‘Own Little World’ with the Help of Caring Family Dog appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The …

Our staff took a look back at the papers we wrote about in 2020 that most shaped our understanding of autism and how to diagnose or treat it. Despite the chaos of this year, there were many to consider. But we reviewed them all, asked some researchers for input and winnowed the list down to 10. Some…

Spectrum’s staff couldn’t report on the ground for much of this year — with no lab visits, sit-down interviews or in-person conferences to attend — but we observed a lot of changes from our computer screens. And as we adapted to reporting from afar, we saw the community we cover adapting, too — in w…

Despite a global pandemic and lockdowns that temporarily stymied research, autism scientists made significant progress in many areas in 2020 — from improving the diversity of people represented in their research to testing the mettle of gene therapies for several autism-related conditions. Some team…

Lockdowns in 2020 slowed the pace of autism research a little, but we still published hundreds of stories this year. Some took extra time and attention. Here are our staff picks of this year’s top features, podcasts and special reports. They include what scientists told us about conducting research …

“You eat angel-food cake with blue dye in it, after a fast, and then measure the time until the blue poop arrives.” Julia Dallman, University of Miami, on her team’s use of ‘Smurf cakes’ to track digestion in children with SYNGAP1 mutations. “The ‘pig in the python’ is headed our way, with the agi…

This has been a year like no other. Our lives were upended in the first quarter as the novel coronavirus spread to every corner of the globe. Universities and health centers shuttered, and researchers and clinicians found themselves grappling with tough new questions: Can my research or clinical tri…

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The store maintains that it was just following regulations. It says customers who cannot wear a mask should shop online. The post Boy with Autism and Medical Conditions Turned Away from Indigo for Refusing to Wear a Mask appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Before Waganesh Zeleke moved to the United States in 2008 to earn her doctorate in mental health counseling, she worked as a psychologist in her home country of Ethiopia, sometimes with autistic children. Her experience supporting autistic people and their families in two countries led her to wonder…

By Joel Ashton-Fogle Duel Diagnosis No, this is not a miss-spelling! For every day is a battle; a combat between symptoms, treatments for them, side-effects of the treatments and subsequent treatments to alleviate the side-effects, leading to more side-effects and more treatments. And so it goes o…