One of my favorite textbooks about ABA is Focus on Behavior Analysis in Education: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities. And one of my favorite chapters in that book is called “Building Behaviors versus Suppressing Behaviors,” which focuses on school-wide positive behavior change This is…

Few of the most popular early treatments for autism are supported by strong evidence, a systematic review suggests; even treatments with relatively strong evidence did not meet the review’s high standards1. A second analysis reviewed studies that support pivotal response treatment (PRT) and found th…

Dominic currently reviews food in the Milwaukee area, but he hopes to take his project global.Source: The Autism Site

When most people think of the nervous system, they may picture the brain and spinal cord, together known as the central nervous system. Rarely do people think of the peripheral nerves that regulate the functions of our bodies’ organs. The peripheral nervous system helps us contract our muscles, mode…

Teachers can send students on an "errand" to allow them to take a break from the classroom without fear of being mocked.Source: The Autism Site

“It’s a community, it’s not a nursing home. We are not going to be running the lives of the people there."Source: The Autism Site

Some of the inherited variants implicated in autism also increase the odds of other conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study1. The results come from an international effort called the Psychiatric G…

"That actually made me tear up when I was watching it because you just don’t see that with him. It’s not really common.”Source: The Autism Site

Representation matters. Farida Bedwei, a software engineer and entrepreneur from Ghana, is the creator behind Karmzah, a crime fighting archaeologist with Cerebral Palsy who uses assistive devices to fight bad guys. Karmzah, who is Morowa Adjei when she is not fighting crime,  is the first superhero…

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A new resource details the genetic diversity of people throughout Asia1. Data from this understudied population could enhance scientists’ understanding of genetic conditions such as autism. Genetic studies have mostly used sequence data from people of European descent. Extrapolating the studies’ fin…

Autism may stem from a different — and larger — set of genetic mutations in women than it does in men, according to a new study1. The findings support a growing body of evidence suggesting that women require a bigger genetic hit than men do to have conditions that affect brain development, including…

"Briella was giggling the whole car ride home with excitement."Source: The Autism Site

Al Roker is speaking out about raising his 17-year-old son, Nick, who is on the autism spectrum. Source: The Autism Site