Unlike many books on autism, this young man used his real-life experiences to create a book that really gives readers an insider's view of the disorder.Source: The Autism Site

Tom Iland was diagnosed with autism at age 13. Life has not been easy, and he has worked hard to meet many of his goals, including driving, living on his own, graduating from college and having a girlfriend. In his first book he shares insights and things he’s learned through experience to help othe…

This support dog has deeply impacted the lives of everyone in the family.Source: The Autism Site

Children with autism have an excess of spontaneous mutations in DNA that controls the expression of autism genes, a new analysis suggests1. This finding contradicts similar analyses from other teams. The study also found that many children with autism carry multiple spontaneous mutations, some of th…

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An unbiased search of more than 2,000 whole genomes for variants in the regions between genes has not found any that contribute to autism1. The study does not prove that those variants don’t exist, but suggests that finding them will require thousands more whole genomes than researchers have now. Th…

High-five to the researchers who came up with this!Source: The Autism Site

The 2021 San Diego Festival of the Arts (www.sdfestivalarts.org) will celebrate its 35th show by relocating to the San Diego Surf Club Soccer Park in North San Diego, formerly the Del Mar polo fields, on Saturday and Sunday, September 11 and 12 from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM on Saturday and 10:00 AM …

Some links between sensory and motor brain networks are unusually weak in individuals with autism, according to a new study1. Other connections are enhanced, however, and their strength tracks with the severity of autism traits. The findings point to a possible neurological basis for sensory and mot…

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Community Newsletter! I’m your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, Spectrum’s engagement editor. Parents’ perceptions of autism have changed as the condition’s prevalence has increased, according to a new paper that analyzed survey data over a 15-year period. Those with autist…

"He sat patiently while she cried ... He didn't once make us feel like we were taking too long or being a nuisance." Source: The Autism Site

Researchers have monitored the active genome in brain organoids over the course of nearly two years. The patterns they see may hold clues about where and when in the developing brain scientists should look for autism’s origins. The researchers presented the unpublished work yesterday at the 2019 Soc…

Unlike typical toddlers, those with autism tend not to share experiences involving sound — dancing to music with their parents, for example, or directing a parent’s attention toward a cat’s meow — according to a new study1. Sharing sounds in this way is a form of joint attention — focusing on someth…

Blind students at Priestley Smith School in Birmingham have been using 3D pens to draw and “see” their creations by touching and feeling the raised, freshly created objects. Before that, they had to ask someone else to draw, and get it altered on raised paper. The 3Doodler Start, release…