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The road to treatments for fragile X syndrome is paved with solid facts and sound premises. But the syndrome — characterized by intellectual disability, hyperactivity, seizures and, often, autism — has so far resisted a pharmaceutical solution. In the past several years, multiple fragile X treatment…

  This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Niall Toner, MA, BCBA of the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s free newsletter, Science in Auti…

Biomedical science faces an existential threat — not the threat of budget cuts or anti-science political views, but one from within the discipline itself. So argues Richard Harris in his new book, “Rigor Mortis.” The book is an alarming and highly readable summation of what has been called the ‘repr…

I live in Melbourne, Australia and have been exhibiting and selling my art since I was 8 years old.  I sculpt, draw and paint.  I love working with foam, pipe cleaners, clay, and plasticine.  I sew dresses for my 3 dimensional figures. My imagination, ideas and thoughts are always so busy in my m…

Interview with Chad Chenail, Producer and Staff Writer, America’s Test Kitchen Kids Kids are as deeply engaged as their parents in listening to podcasts, so it’s important that the content created for them is inclusive and diverse, so every listener can find themselves in the stories. Chad…

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The information below is floating around Facebook.  I thought it makes a good blog so I’m reposting and changing to focus on the disability community. It’s about how to be effective when advocating. Please heed this guidance from a high-level staffer for a Senator: You should NOT be both…

Some malls offer this awesome opportunity for kids on the spectrum. Have you ever tried it?Source: The Autism Site

Matt and Miriam Adar's son mimics everything he hears, so when he began to scream and swear, they knew something must be going on at school.Source: The Autism Site

Ever wondered what the outcome was of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 that swept the entire nation? A lot of money was raised from that challenge which is being used for research and projects for curing ALS.  Read the infographic below to find out more.Text description of infographic right…

Love this idea!Source: The Autism Site

To build a list of genes with definitive ties to autism — 65 and counting — researchers look for mutations that crop up in children with autism but not their unaffected parents and siblings. But these rare, harmful mutations are just one piece of autism’s complex genetic puzzle. Th…

Reposted with permission from Action Behavior Centers Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy is an evidence-based approach to treating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). When ABA therapy is implemented in a center-based environment, it takes place in a clinical or therapy center …