An effective military starts with the people. Let's give military families the benefits they have earned. The post The Military Still Doesn’t Cover This Valuable Autism Therapy For Dependents appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Hello, and welcome to the Community Newsletter! I’m your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, Spectrum’s engagement editor. Twitter served up some practical tips this week about how to make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) more comfortable for autistic people. Strategies in the literature could lead to new trai…

Tanishq was diagnosed with Autism at the age of two. As a young child, he was a lot more interested in food shows than cartoons because they were short and repeated. One day, as a five year old, he insisted on helping with cooking in the kitchen and since that day, he developed interest in cooking! …

Spectrum’s Autism Drug Tracker provides interactive, curated information about hundreds of clinical trials for autism and related conditions. For details about how we filtered our data, please read the article announcing the drug tracker. For information on how to use the tracker, see below. Which t…

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A new harmless virus can deliver genes to brain cells without infecting other tissues, according to early tests in mice and monkeys. The virus could minimize the risk of side effects from gene therapies under development for autism-related conditions, such as Angelman syndrome, Rett syndrome and fra…

Kristin Sohl learned young how to access community resources designed to help families through lean times: She had her first child at 19 years old. “I was a premed student with no income,” she says. “My husband had just finished college, was starting work on his master’s degree and was working full-…

Today we released the first iteration of our Autism Drug Trial Tracker, which provides interactive, curated information on more than 200 clinical trials for autism and related conditions. The data powering the web application are freely available, as is the code that was used to scrape the data. We …

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My name is Angel, and this is my autism confession. By Angel Nikki Mann I loved being quarantined. Now before you get upset, please understand that I’m not saying I like Covid. When I first started hearing about “coronavirus,” I, like many people, was alarmed. I had just started working at a child …

Ree the barber has always worked patiently and creatively with LaQuista Erinna's son, Jackson, who is on the autism spectrum. The post Amazing Barber Turns Haircut Into a Game for Young Boy with Autism appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

When a child first gets diagnosed with Autism, parents are often overwhelmed. A good doctor will give a prescription for ABA therapy as well as other necessary therapies such as Speech, OT,  PT, Feeding, etc. However, of those therapies, the one that is usually not familiar is ABA. A simple Goo…

Most people who are diagnosed with autism in adulthood were not diagnosed with a psychiatric condition during childhood, according to a new study. The result suggests that childhood misdiagnosis cannot explain why some people with autism are identified only later in life, says lead investigator Laur…