Check out this Color Sorting Jar Activity designed by Lavinia Pop from In My World! This printable activity includes four different color jars: red, orange, yellow, and green. It also includes sixteen different corresponding images, four for each color jar. To create the color sorting jar, you cut a…

This week, clinical psychologist Lauren Elder offers advice on setting up play dates for children with autism. Encouraging friendships is a priority for many parents, and a play date is a good first step. Playing with peers is difficult for many children with autism. So I’m glad you realize that a s…

About 1 in 59 children in the United States has autism, according to data released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Four times as many boys as girls have the condition, according to the report1. The data are based on a 2014 survey of 325,483 children across 11 stat…

This is appalling.Source: The Autism Site

The employee kept insisting the dog was a pet.Source: The Autism Site

This piece was originally posted at www.aba-interventions.com.  Play skills and social skills should be a part of an ABA treatment plan and are absolutely important for children with autism or I/DD. Many parents eagerly place their child in social groups, play dates, or insist that their child …

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

Luke opened up about being a father.Source: The Autism Site

Every day that Janet van der Laak drives between car dealerships in her sales job, she keeps size 12 shoes, some clothes and a packed lunch — a PB&J sandwich, fruit and a granola bar — beside her in case she sees her 27-year-old son on the streets. “’Jito, come home,” she always tell…

Research roundup New tools such as cultured progenitor cells have given researchers insight into placenta formation. Nature Reviews Genetics Researchers studying the evolutionary progression of microglia, the brain’s immune cells, have identified a core group of genes that are turned on in the mic…

Conversations between an autistic and a typical person involve less smiling and more mismatched facial expressions than do interactions between two typical people, a new study suggests1. People engaged in conversation tend to unconsciously mimic each other’s behavior, which may help create and reinf…

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

After a difficult day, this little boy with autism was acting out…until one stranger made a huge difference.Source: The Autism Site

Pregnant women, like everyone else, get sick. And like everyone else, their bodies try to fight infection and, importantly, keep it from reaching the growing fetus. If the mother’s immune system successfully defeats the virus before the developing baby is exposed or if the virus never crosses the pl…