Zappar, a UK based company has come up with a new accessible QR code solution that will help blind and partially sighted people access product information on store shelves and in cabinets at home relatively quickly. “Accessible QR” brings a slight modification to the regular QR code that we are a…

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 17 April. SourceSource: Spectrum News

The gene, FOXP1, influences an animal’s motivation to listen to social communication, a new study suggests. SourceSource: Spectrum News

By Andrew Moodie Most people would say that I have a fairly good life, but behind the fact that I come from a loving family, get three meals a day and go to a warm bed every night, I’ve always felt like there is another side of the story that has never really been talked about that much. Now I’m twe…

An anonymous tipster has been sifting through the papers of Jia Liu and his team. SourceSource: Spectrum News

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…

The editors intend to start a new nonprofit journal. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Profound autism prevalence rose from 2002 to 2016, though not nearly as much as non-profound autism did. SourceSource: Spectrum News

By Amanda Porche For as long as I can recall I have always felt like and outsider. I believed that I was this deep, dark individual that nobody could possibly understand. Some of this comes from being an autistic child and starting school with significant verbal and developmental delays. I knew I wa…

In this edition of Null and Noteworthy, researchers upend early interventions and diagnostic boundaries. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Researchers and clinicians were quick to point out the flaws in the study, and a flood of work refuted it. SourceSource: Spectrum News

By imaging and recording synaptic activity in living mouse embryos for the first time, new research reveals previously unknown patterns of development and hints at how those patterns are disrupted in autism. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Focusing on aspects of autistic experience that we all share may lead more quickly to our shared goal of improved outcomes for all autistic people. SourceSource: Spectrum News

When Adam Cutshall was in his mid 20s, he was building a mini golf course for his when a bit of carelessness with power tools caused an injury to his pinky finger which was ultimately amputated. Now 47, Adam has been repeatedly denied insurance over the years to get a prosthetic finger, which can co…