Business: KoolCharm.com Mission: To teach our son (and eventually other special needs children) the pride that comes through accomplishment and the value of work and reward. What is KoolCharm? Here at KoolCharm, we sell personalized Autism Awareness Jewelry. What makes us different is that we person…

By: Michael C. Selbst, Ph.D., BCBA-D Behavior Therapy Associates & HI-STEP Co-Author of POWER-Solving Curriculum “Mom and Dad, can Emma come over to play?” “Do you want to play together at recess?” “Can I ride bikes with Noah?” “We want to go the movies later, is that okay?” “I’m meeting my …

Art of Autism Creatives Share ‘Wassup’ In the New Year Compiled By Keri Bowers with help and special thanks to New Art of Autism Ambassador Linish Balan This Mash Up is dedicated to all of us who are emotionally and physically exhausted from the high-intensity dramas of 2020. Our wish is we can tap…

A person could be forgiven for believing 20 years ago that the internet would soon revolutionize academic publishing. With the emergence of the World Wide Web, it suddenly became possible for academic publishers to disseminate scholarly work at the click of a button — at a fraction of the cost…

One of the tenets of ABA is to provide evidence-based practice. The best way to help us do this is to keep up with the literature! Each month, Sam Blanco, PhD, LBA, BCBA will select one journal article and provide discussion questions for professionals working within the ABA community. The following…

The largest-ever set of sequences from people with developmental delay has revealed 43 new genetic causes of the condition. Researchers presented the preliminary data Friday at the 2018 American Society of Human Genetics conference in San Diego, California. The study is part of a collaborative effor…

Being able-bodied comes with many privileges that are often overlooked, such as the ease of standing up, sitting down, or reaching for items without assistance. To address the challenges faced by those with lower limb disadvantages, Chronus Robotics, a company based in Lithuania, has developed a sel…

Researchers have developed a method for sequencing the genome of an intact single cell, revealing its spatial arrangement within the nucleus. Single-cell sequencing has been around for several years, but it typically requires researchers to break cells apart to get at the genome — and breaks up the …

This is one of those rare cases in which the challenges of autism can make for funny, light-hearted moments.Source: The Autism Site

By Aaron Bouma For my peoples with disabilities, stigma is something we continuously face. It is how we are perceived to be, to act, and what we are believed to be capable of as well as what expections people have when they become involved with us. Expectations can be like a scale. It can be good …

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On the website of the company Neurocore, an illustration of an anthropomorphized human brain, complete with hopeful eyes and a wide smile, is pumping iron. “A stronger brain makes anything possible,” says the tagline next to the cheery brain. This concept — body-building for the brain — is the premi…

“Synesthesia is a gift but it is also a beautiful language that needs its own translation.” Jeremy Sicile-Kira The essay below was written by 17-year old Abigail Delizo for a University of Toronto assignment for a course on Creating Community: Art, Identity and Belonging. Communicatio…

Two new resources may aid the study of synapses, the junctions between neurons. Synapses are the nodes of the brain circuits that underlie behavior, movement and various other functions. Alterations in synaptic proteins may be involved in autism. A new online platform called SynGO provides informati…