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…

The students at Prairieview Elementary School in Michigan welcomed their beloved school therapy dog into the student body with an official school photo.Source: The Autism Site

My name is Ari – I am reaching out from Nina Day Casting, we are a casting agency in New York currently working on a campaign for a new real-life video chat tool that is launching to improve communication for people across the ASD spectrum. We are looking for real people with ASD who may be f…

A new imaging tool creates a hologram of neurons firing across distant areas of the mouse brain. The tool, described in two papers published 20 January in Neuron, could reveal how brain circuits are altered in mouse models of autism1,2. Other instruments allow researchers to watch neurons fire withi…

Pokemon Go has exploded since its release; people all over the country are searching far and wide, striving to catch 'em all. But it's boasting some unexpected benefits...Source: The Autism Site

The Art of Autism is saddened to hear of Jackson Wheeler’s passing. The Art of Autism honored Jackson Wheeler last year with a Hearts and Arts Award. Jackson Wheeler was a great friend of people with disabilities. He was a social worker for thirty years for Tri-Counties Regional Center and d…

Dear Readers, 2017 was the year we at Spectrum committed to being open — to new ideas, new types of stories, new ways of telling them and new ways to reach you, our audience. For example, as I promised in last year’s letter to you, we made our podcast, “Spectrum Stories” a regular feature. The…

Independence Science recently launched the Sci-Voice Talking LabQuest 2 to help blind and low-vision students independently complete data-collection investigations during STEM labs. By integrating text-to-speech assistive technology with Vernier Software & Technology’s LabQuest 2 hardware device…

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

Children who have an older sibling with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at an increased risk of having autism, a new study suggests1. The reverse is also true. Autism and ADHD share some features and often co-occur. Other studies have documented the increased risk in siblings for…

More than 600 volunteers banded together to find the little boy, joining multiple law enforcement agencies, the FBI, K-9 units, and a state patrol helicopter.Source: The Autism Site

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 …

Since the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, the proportion of presenters at neuroscience conferences who are Black has increased by only 3 percentage points, according to a new analysis. The study, published Thursday in Nature Neuroscience, compared the fraction of Black presenters at 18 neurosci…

During the past year living in a pandemic, many people have turned to hobbies, new and old, to... The post Teen With Autism Falls in Love With Baking Brownies During the Pandemic appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site