Brad and Bryan Manning were diagnosed with Stargardt disease when they were very little. Since then, they have been known as the blind brothers. Stargardt is a form of macular degeneration that causes a person to lose their central vision, keeping their peripheral vision intact.  However, t…

"Having an encounter with police -- whether as a victim, someone officers are concerned for the welfare of, or as a suspect -- is an unsettling encounter for anybody, but for someone with autism, it can be extremely distressing."Source: The Autism Site

Hannah Brooks is reaching out online in the hopes of finding a bigger size of her son's beloved "wellies."Source: The Autism Site

An experimental behavioral therapy delivered by parents does not improve autism traits in babies who screen positive for the condition, according to a new study1. The results are disappointing, say independent experts, because they had high hopes for this particular approach’s promise in mitigating …

Disability empowerment … can bend the moral arc of a neurotypical universe into one which supports the idea that initiative and hard work is valuable in and of itself, in whichever way it chooses to manifest. By Nils Skudra A little prefatory material is perhaps in order before I engage in a bit of …

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A browser-based platform simulates functional neuronal circuits in brain regions of humans, mice, squid, lobsters and roundworms1. It enables scientists to see and study these circuits and could help reveal how the human brain is altered in people with autism. With the new Open Source Brain, researc…

The more words autistic children hear as infants — and the more verbal interactions they have with their caregivers — the better their language skills at age 2, a new study suggests1. The quantity of speech young children hear in the home is known to have a strong influence on language development a…

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has delayed by two years a controversial new rule that required some basic researchers to register and report their studies as clinical trials. The reprieve, announced last week, follows two years of pushback from scientists who say the system they were a…

As the party fast approaching, she saw that only one classmate had RSPV'd. Lindsay figured that most people were too busy to RSVP and that many of his buddies would still attend. But she quickly realized that many of the kids were intentionally not accepting the invitation after noticing how they in…

20-year-old Kate Grant had had dreams of a career in the beauty industry her whole life.Source: The Autism Site

ABA often gets a bad rap due to misunderstandings about reinforcement. In my career alone, I’ve had people tell me that people are not like rats and pigeons, that reinforcement harms intrinsic motivation, and that when I do produce behavior change, it has nothing to do with ABA but with my abilities…

A new online repository for unpublished health and medical manuscripts launched in June: medRxiv  (pronounced ‘med-archive’) hosts original research, reviews and meta-analyses in disciplines ranging from neurology to sports medicine. The project is a collaboration among Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…