Through his parent’s love and support, Michael now is an author, has a third-degree black belt, a Master’s degree in Business Administration, and a career as a data processor. By Ron Sandison Michael Goodroe is an amazing young adult on the autism spectrum. He is the author of What Autism Gave Me: …

“Prison Break” and “Legends of Tomorrow” actor Wentworth Miller took to Instagram to share his unexpected diagnosis of... The post Actors Reveal They Have Autism, Pave Way For Others With ‘Later-In-Life’ Diagnoses appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Sit…

My lifelong fascination with science centers on its potential to improve our lives in practical and meaningful ways. I began my career as a clinical and research psychologist focused on autism more than a generation ago, when autism research was rapidly expanding. It seemed inevitable that basic sci…

Past studies have shown that having a feline friend in the home can help lower stress and anxiety... The post After Being Adopted By Families with Children on the Autism Spectrum, Cats Are Less Stressed appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

The scientists in Ethan Scott’s lab at the Queensland Brain Institute in Brisbane, Australia, hail from a dozen different countries, including North Macedonia, Tahiti and the Seychelles Islands. Their specialties are equally diverse, spanning the fields of genetics, mathematics, computer science and…

If you’ve ever been to one of the few Amazon Go stores, you have experienced “contactless shopping” – you walk in, grab the items you need and simply walk out! The store is equipped with cameras and sensors and the entire system has the ability to identify what you grabbed. Once you walk out, …

Guest post by Emily Ansell Elfer, BA Hons, Dip. Ask any parent about potty training their child and... The post Autism and Potty Training: Tips for Toileting Success appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Community Newsletter! I’m your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, Spectrum’s engagement editor. A flurry of tweets this week touted a new Autism study from researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. How can we create inclusive methods to capture experiences of aut…

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The communication and language difficulties seen in people with autism are challenging to study in animals, for obvious reasons. But scientists have seen parallels between human speech and the songs of some birds. Young male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) learn to sing by listening to and imita…

Usually, conversations justifying animal models of autism center on how similar a species is to humans. But Gül Dölen takes a different view. “What if we went for the animal that is least similar to humans?” says Dölen, associate professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore…

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Brain scans from 16 mouse models of autism reveal at least four distinct patterns of brain activity, a new study suggests. The findings lend fresh support to the popular idea that autism is associated with a range of brain ‘signatures.’ Telltale neural signatures of autism have long proved elusive, …

The Art of Autism’s 2nd post for our 6th Annual Art and Poems for Peace. See first compilation here. Header image: April Tobin “Bird in Flight” Art and Poems for Peace is compiled by The Art of Autism and includes this message from the Youth Assembly, which will meet for an annual…