John R. Miller has written and illustrated two children’s books based on the imaginary world he created on his two little hands when he was 5 years old. “When I was a little boy, I was diagnosed with autism and one of my stims or tics was to play and wrestle with my hands where I created Handom. Ha…

Children with autism are about twice as likely as their typical peers to experience chronic or repeated pain, according to a large study. Those with co-occurring developmental conditions, such as epilepsy or intellectual disability, are even more likely to have chronic pain1. Several studies have su…

Less than a decade ago, the emergency department at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, California, would see maybe one or two young people per day, says Benjamin Maxwell, the hospital’s interim director of child and adolescent psychiatry. Now it’s not unusual for the emergency room to see 10 ado…

The ability to see plays a large role in the development of the brain — so it makes sense that there would be a connection between vision and autism, which is essentially a condition of brain development. When the eyes are open, vision is the dominant sense. Continuous input from the eyes links stim…

Whether the text is too small, the meaning of the icons are hard to identify and remember, or one finds themself making accidental calls because of the complexity of modern smartphones, Simple Smartphone may be a helpful solution. Simple Smartphone strips down the complicated features of a typica…

Who needs fully functional limbs when you have an entire rugby team at your disposal?Source: The Autism Site

Blood vessels in the brains of more than half of autistic people have an unusually large number of immune cells called T cells, according to an analysis of postmortem tissue1. This excess may damage cells that form a protective lining for the brain. The findings jibe with results showing elevated le…

"They beat me, made me eat my momma's ashes, shot me with a BB gun and starved me."Source: The Autism Site

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A new method scans gene expression in live cells and could help scientists study autism genes1. The technique, called live-cell fluorescent in situ hybridization (LiveFISH), makes it possible to visualize DNA and RNA during gene editing and expression in real time, across many cell types. It uses th…

Autism researchers in the United Kingdom are growing anxious about Brexit — the nation’s planned exit from the European Union. In particular, they say, Brexit will make it harder to carry out the large international studies that the field increasingly relies upon. “We had 30 years of people doing sm…

Mattel and the National Federation of the Blind have partnered together to create the first ever Braille edition of UNO®. Now, both sighted, blind and low vision people can play together! UNO Braille features braille on the corner of every playing card to indicate the card’s number or action and…

Leonardo DiCaprio used his Instagram platform to post a rare selfie alongside Greta Thunberg and called her a "leader of our time."Source: The Autism Site

Apps spell big business in the healthcare industry: Dozens of apps are marketed to people with conditions including depression, anxiety and autism. And Google parent company Alphabet announced Friday that it will buy wearable fitness tracker company FitBit. But many app developers sell users’ data, …