For years, autism research has been mostly male-centric. This resulted in boys and men receiving autism diagnoses much... The post 19-Year-Old Woman with Autism Creates Viral TikTok Videos to Spread Awareness About ASD appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

After reading John’s books and hearing him speak I could see him standing right next to me in the AMC lobby asking the same questions. By Ron Sandison On February 23rd, I had the pleasure of meeting a New York Times bestelling author, John Elder Robison, who is of my heroes from the autism community…

Austin shares what it is like to have a panic attack and wants others to share their experiences. By Austin John Jones What I am about to talk about I think is a very personal experience for me. However, I want to tell you about it because I know I can’t be the only person on earth who has felt this…

About 1 in 40 children in the United States has autism, according to a survey conducted in 2016. Roughly 30 percent of those children were not being treated for the condition at the time1,2. Two independent research teams analyzed the data: One study appears today in JAMA Pediatrics, and the other c…

By Megan Amodeo Thirty seconds before the meltdown isn’t a lot of time. Any parent of an autistic child knows what the word meltdown means. For those of you that may not know what I’m talking about, the easiest way to describe a meltdown is a physical and emotional chaotic storm. You may think it’s …

This year’s top papers deepen our understanding of autism’s genetics and reveal mixed results from trials of autism therapies. As we do every year, we asked autism researchers to help us pick the most ‘notable’ papers of the previous 12 months — ones that greatly enhanced our knowledge of autism or …

By Alice Farion It’s going to be ok. I’m going to be ok. It’s just 8 hours. I’m going to be normal. But I’m not. I am faking it, I am not ok. I am not normal. Everyday, I play an act. I have been an actress my whole life. I am a researcher too. Everyday, I observe other people, list facts, organise …

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Simon Celiberti-Byam and Julia Weiss, High School Externs with the Association for Science in Autism Treatment. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s free newsletter, Scien…

Analyzing large numbers of autism mice, researchers have found that the mice cluster into subtypes based on brain structure and functional connectivity. In one project, Canadian researchers performed nearly 4,000 structural brain scans in 92 mouse models of autism. They looked for brain regions that…

At Spectrum, we are proud of every story we publish — from breaking news about autism prevalence to an in-depth look at autism as a problem of prediction. But a few stories stand out — because of the shocking revelation at their core, the humanity they highlight beneath the science or simply because…

A greater proportion of 3-year-old girls than boys with autism have psychiatric features such as anxiety and angry moods. These young girls also tend to have poor daily-living and other ‘adaptive functioning’ skills. Researchers presented the unpublished results yesterday at the 2018 International S…

Siblings of people with autism take down misconceptions about the disorder.Source: The Autism Site

Motor problems in autistic infants parallel those in infants with other developmental conditions, according to research based on hundreds of children1. The findings dash the hopes of scientists hoping to find signature delays associated with autism that would help them diagnose the condition early. …

By Gretchen Leary We often think of bravery and greatness as almost the same. But what if we considered the idea that sometimes bravery can also mean the ability to be humble without shame? We often think of bravery as an action that we do with our body but we don’t always associate it with what we …