This is such a cool idea!Source: The Autism Site

Heba Jamjoum, a Jordanian sign-language interpreter, noticed the scarcity of educational content available for deaf Arab children while expecting her son six years ago. In 2022, she and her husband, Mamoun Oudah, who is hearing-impaired, initiated a project named after their kids, Tameem and Reem, t…

After weeks of will-they-or-won’t-they tensions, the U.S. House of Representatives managed to pass its Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) yesterday by a razor-thin margin. The vote was 217-213. Democrats who lost the battle are still convinced they may win the political war. A…

Moose and Lali are nonverbal and live at home; Jess and Dan are more cognitively able and live independently. All four have autism. Together, these characters represent the broad spectrum of autism in the play “Uncommon Sense,” which premiered at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New York …

Greetings everyone! My name is Stephen Gaiber. Today I am going to talk about autism and employment. Let me first introduce myself. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome when I was 3 years old. Despite my autism, I have maintained independence by graduating college, working for over 12 years, l…

If you're looking to raise kids who are confident, these methods and practices will help.Source: The Autism Site

Many people with autism have atypical responses to sensory stimuli: Some appear to be hypersensitive, such that a clothing tag is unbearably scratchy; others may be so tolerant that touching a hot stove top yields a burn but no pain. The prevalence of sensory issues among autistic people, as detaile…

Hello, and welcome to the Community Newsletter! I’m your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, Spectrum’s engagement editor. The first study to spark online exchanges this week looked at the link between autism traits and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults aged 50 and older who scored high on a meas…

To think that what we are witnessing now in Ukraine is far removed from the world of autism would be a huge mistake. I was fortunate to travel to Ukraine twice to conduct research, train specialists and give lectures about autism. I am fluent in Ukrainian and worked directly with families and profes…

Many teachers know the names of the students who staff the mobile coffee cart at Lawton Alternative School in San Francisco, California.Source: The Autism Site

“I believe everyone on the planet has their thing and, especially in my experience, autistic people all have a tremendous gift. It’s a matter of finding that gift and nurturing it,” Edie Brannigan By Debra Muzikar October is Disability History Month. Last month a young autistic man made history at …

9 May 2017: Heading to San Francisco The West Coast home of hippies, techies and the Golden Gate Bridge is host to this year’s International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). Now in its 16th year, IMFAR is the oldest and largest autism research meeting in the world — and it grows every year. On W…

Novelty is a slippery concept in genetics: Literally, it simply means that a gene’s connection to a certain condition has never previously been noted. But many researchers say that being first to implicate a gene isn’t enough. Genes also must pass a stringent statistical bar to become candidates, or…

Gene expression patterns in the brains of people with autism are similar to those of people who have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, according to a large study of postmortem brain tissue1. The findings appear today in Science. All three conditions show an activation of genes in star-shaped brain …