Help your learner navigate their town, shop for groceries and tell time with these fun and educational games! *Promotion is valid until July 10th  2017 at 11:59pm ET. Offer cannot be applied to previous purchases, combined with any other offers, transferred, refunded, or redeemed and/or exchanged f…

Is self-care as an autistic important? Listen to what Living Positively Autistic columnist, Becca Lory, has to say about the why you must make it a priority. By Becca Lory, CAS, BCCS Here are the highlights of Becca’s video: What is self-care? In health care: it is any necessary human regulat…

A brief, partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government ended 22 January, as the Senate and House approved legislation that would keep federal dollars flowing until 8 February, as well as fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for the next six years. President Donald Trump signed the …

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Journalist Sarah Kurchak begins her memoir, “I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder,” with a disclaimer: “I do not speak for all autistic people. I will not try to. I do not want to.” With that out of the way, what follows is a superb ‘autiebiography’ — an autobiography w…

Autism with intellectual disability is less heritable than autism alone, according to a new study of how the conditions run in extended families. About a third of autistic people have intellectual disability (ID) — an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 70 or less. Autistic people with lower IQs are more …

Working toward a BCBA or BCaBA is hard work – attending classes, getting experience hours and, working, often full time, and for many, doing all this while raising a family. The good news is that all of this hard work will someday pay off. After all, the ultimate goal of this is to be qualified to p…

School and medical records for children with autism in largely Hispanic neighborhoods often do not reflect the children’s condition. The same is true in places where few residents have college degrees1. The findings point to demographic groups that are liable to remain undiagnosed and go without app…

Token economies are used in many different environments. They’re typically simple to implement and achieve desired results for behavior change, especially in autism classrooms. Furthermore, there are tons of research on how to best use them. If you want to get the best results while simultaneously p…

This Spectrum journal club will focus on two papers published this year that explore the role of mosaic mutations in autism. Rebecca Barnard, a postdoctoral researcher in Brian O’Roak’s lab at Oregon Health and Science University, will describe results from their paper “Exonic mosaic mutations contr…

For many fully sighted people, Braille has always been a mystery. Since it doesn’t really have any resemblance to the English alphabet, Braille, for them, is a completely foreign language. Also, typically Braille signs are created separately and displayed under or above text in print graphics.…

Autistic children who have behavioral problems tend to have an enlarged right amygdala, a brain region that helps process emotions and detect threats. And in young girls with autism, the region’s size is associated with the severity of these problems. The findings come from a study of 300 autistic c…

#ActuallyAutistic Self-Care Journey By Gretchen McIntire I often reflect on how much more I need to grow and forget to look back at how far I’ve come. Do you ever do that? This month has been about looking back and sitting with how far I’ve come. Don’t get me wrong: I’ve been brave this mo…