“We have been working with a behavior analyst and it seems like every time they give us a new behavior intervention things just get worse, not better. What gives?” Well, if you are working with a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, I’d like to believe that the interventions they are recommending for y…

Researchers have known that genes contribute to autism since the 1970s, when a team found that identical twins often share the condition. Since then, scientists have been racking up potential genetic culprits in autism, a process that DNA-decoding technologies have accelerated in the past decade. As…

By Gretchen McIntire In the last couple of days, I have been reflecting on the ways I have worked hard to be brave this year. A lot of my work has been emotional but some of it has involved a lot of unexpected changes. This year there were times when I worried I might run out of ways to be brave onl…

According to WHO, there are 285 million people worldwide that are visually impaired and 90% of this population lives in poverty. It goes without saying that visually impaired people face challenges on a daily basis. However, it is also refreshing to see makers and individuals out there building solu…

The 20-year-old student was strapped into his seat when the 69-year-old man yelled obscenities at him and hit him in the face. The post Nonverbal Autistic Student Hit in Face During Meltdown by Adult Who Claimed He Was “Trying to Help” appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The …

If you are a bus rider, you have probably occasionally missed your bus because you were standing just a few steps away from the bus stop, the bus approached, the driver thought you weren’t going to get on, and they drove off! (it’s happened to me for sure!) For the visually impaired, this is a…

If you're anything like most people, you have multiple voices in your head competing all at once for space. Some of them you like, so you welcome them out in the open. Others you want to keep hidden away. Not only do you not want others to see them, you don't even want to acknowledge them yourself. …

You never dreamed it would be like this. Now how do you make it stop?Source: The Autism Site

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His friends and family are heartbroken.Source: The Autism Site

Amanda Bailey encourages autism families "not to assume that nobody understands what you're going through."Source: The Autism Site

Thanks to 3D printing, prosthetic limbs have become extremely affordable for a lot of amputees. Even then, the use of prosthetic limbs, especially in children, is fairly limited. In order to understand what it would take to accelerate the transformation provided by 3D printed limbs, researchers at U…

Kyungho Jeon is a blind virtuoso percussionist from South Korea who would love to play in an orchestra one day. However, because of his blindness, he has been told that he cannot since he cannot see the conductor. When Rolf and Vahakn, a team of father and son who build musical instruments for peopl…

ABA often gets a bad rap due to misunderstandings about reinforcement. In my career alone, I’ve had people tell me that people are not like rats and pigeons, that reinforcement harms intrinsic motivation, and that when I do produce behavior change, it has nothing to do with ABA but with my abilities…