By Kadin McElwain Picture this situation: you’re leaving the hospital after a checkup for some simple blood work. You fasted the day before and now you’re ready to head home, put your feet up, and have a lovely steak dinner. You earned it for having an amazing appointment, after all. As …

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Juliana Oliveira, PhD, BCBA-D, and Alice Shillingsburg, PhD, BCBA-D (University of Nebraska Medical Center – Munroe Meyer Institute). To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s …

Emerging methods make it possible to combine the two tactics from opposite ends of the analytic spectrum, enabling scientists to have their cake and eat it too. SourceSource: Spectrum News

by Daniel Antonsson When I was growing up, I never thought much about eating in a specific way. I ate the food that I liked and my mum was a good chef, so I was fed well. In school, I liked most of the food that we received and I always looked forward to going to the dining room. I moved around quit…

Be My Eyes, a groundbreaking app designed to aid the blind and visually impaired, has launched its award-winning application on Windows desktop, available now on the Microsoft Store. Announced at Microsoft’s Build Week in Seattle, this expansion brings the Be My AI feature from their successfu…

Do you want to improve the accessibility culture at your business or organization? Join IAAP for  an upcoming virtual symposium on June 12th and learn how you can leverage a Community of Practice to encourage organic accessibility growth, create a sustainable roadmap, and build a true culture o…

The National Medal of Science winner explains why she built her career around the crustacean and what it was like attending high school in a Hudson River town. SourceSource: Spectrum News

By Ashleigh Evans, MS, BCBA Time is a challenging concept for children to grasp. It is even more difficult for concrete thinkers, as many neurodiverse children are. Children with autism tend to understand concrete concepts better than abstract ones, like time. Visual timers and other supports can…

The Art of Autism is featured in Feedspot’s Top 100 Autism Blogs! By Jeremy Sicile-Kira The movie Ezra is the story of a child who is a truly beautiful soul dearly misunderstood by all the grownups he meets in a professional capacity. It is also a frankly amazing portrayal of one family’s expe…

As a new professor, I was caught off guard by one part of the job: my role as an evaluator. SourceSource: Spectrum News

By Ron Sandison “In Alternative Baseball we use baseball to teach our players teamwork with coaches and mentors to ensure a brighter future.” Taylor Duncan, Founder of Alternative Baseball I was excited on March 9 to meet Taylor Duncan, the founder of Alternative Baseball at the 2024 Together Confer…

By Nahoma Presberg, MS BCBA NYS-LBA You’ve probably heard that ABA is a tool to teach social skills. You’ve probably also heard that one of the characteristics of autism is difficulty with social interactions. But what does that mean exactly? Does that mean that conversations with friends are har…

By Kadin McElwain Public relations is a field where you have to do your best to manage a company’s image. Whether it be through Corporate Social Responsibility, organizing events, or social media management, you have a really important job. This job can be all the more complicated if you have Autism…

Her advocacy work aided the discovery of a rare inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and helped connect affected people with researchers. SourceSource: Spectrum News