Brittany is currently ranked #1 for Special Olympic female tennis players in the world and is a professional tennis player. By Ron Sandison Twenty-eight year old Brittany Tagliareni (5′2″ & 103 pounds) is a little powerhouse on the tennis court. She has won over 100 medals and beat many of the t…

Seeking a neurodivergent actor to play lead role The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a Warner Bros. feature film expected to film in 2020. Veteran Casting Director Heidi Levitt (known for projects such as Natural Born Killers and The Artist) is leading the casting search. It is bein…

The lanyard alerts store employees that the customer has autism or another invisible disability.Source: The Autism Site

"The learning materials included in the campaign stigmatize autistic people and their parents."Source: The Autism Site

This could be a game-changer for young people with autism trying to break into the adult world.Source: The Autism Site

By Quinn Dexter, Autistamatic If you are autistic and you don’t stim then you are in a minority. Most people stim in some way or another from bored employees in meetings clicking their pens to Presidents and Prime Ministers scratching their chins in thought. Stimming is not just the preserve of neur…

Seeking a neurodivergent actor to play lead role The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a Warner Bros. Feature film expected to film in 2020. Veteran Casting Director Heidi Levitt (known for projects such as Natural Born Killers and The Artist) is leading the casting search. It is bein…

To celebrate Autism Awareness Month, Miami International Airport has announced the opening of a brand new Multi-Sensory Room for kids with autism.Source: The Autism Site

The bench acts as an invitation to 6-year-old Finn, letting him know he can come see his favorite flag anytime he likes.Source: The Autism Site

By Greg Burns My language is more than words and so is yours My language moves with the wind and turns with the earth It twinkles with the stars above and ripples with the waves My language is something you do not learn but I must learn your language I must force my mouth to form the words with teet…

"Having an encounter with police -- whether as a victim, someone officers are concerned for the welfare of, or as a suspect -- is an unsettling encounter for anybody, but for someone with autism, it can be extremely distressing."Source: The Autism Site

Hannah Brooks is reaching out online in the hopes of finding a bigger size of her son's beloved "wellies."Source: The Autism Site

Disability empowerment … can bend the moral arc of a neurotypical universe into one which supports the idea that initiative and hard work is valuable in and of itself, in whichever way it chooses to manifest. By Nils Skudra A little prefatory material is perhaps in order before I engage in a bit of …

As the party fast approaching, she saw that only one classmate had RSPV'd. Lindsay figured that most people were too busy to RSVP and that many of his buddies would still attend. But she quickly realized that many of the kids were intentionally not accepting the invitation after noticing how they in…