“Y’all think y’all bullies? I’m a big bully, OK?”Source: The Autism Site

One of the tenets of ABA is to provide evidence-based practice. The best way to help us do this is to keep up with the literature! Each month, Sam Blanco, PhD, LBA, BCBA will select one journal article and provide discussion questions for professionals working within the ABA community. The following…

By Megan Amodeo Changes in life are inevitable. The weather changes. The government changes. People change. One of life’s biggest changes is growing up. Moving from childhood to adulthood. When my daughters were born, it seemed as if they would be little forever. Long sleepless nights, endless diap…

Mice colonized with gut microbes from some autistic boys show behaviors like those of the boys, researchers reported today in Cell1. The findings provide the first evidence that intestinal microbes might contribute to autism traits. More intriguingly, independent experts say, the researchers found e…

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"It actually has saved his life, playing music," his mom said.Source: The Autism Site

The child came home from school with fresh marks and scratches on his arm.Source: The Autism Site

When people think about schizophrenia, they may think about the movie “A Beautiful Mind” or a woman they passed on the sidewalk who seemed to be arguing with angry voices in her head. They are unlikely to picture a person with autism. Psychosis is defined as a period of abnormal perceptions (halluci…

Dance to the beat of your own drum, because when you dance to your own rhythm, life taps its toes to your beat.” Kandregula Chandhu Sai Raja By Helen Wallace-IlesToday I’m shining a light on a truly inspirational club, aptly named ‘Inspiration Drum Line’. It’s a drumming group for children …

Spontaneous mutations that occur between genes are as important in autism as those within genes, a new study suggests1. The study, published today in Nature Genetics, is the first to look at the impact of these ‘noncoding’ mutations across the whole genomes of autistic people. Many teams over the pa…

“It is toxic to think that the worth of a person comes only from what they can provide. This is, in my opinion, a major source of ableism. “By Baylie NixonLast month was autism awareness month. Fortunately, April is slowly but surely becoming better known as “Autism Acceptance Month” in…

8 care workers even boasted about having intentionally harmed a patient. Source: The Autism Site

This is such a cool idea!Source: The Autism Site

An array of minute beads enables researchers to build precise 3-D maps of gene expression in the brain1. The technique, called Slide-seq, can help researchers compare gene expression in the brain of an autistic person with that of a neurotypical person. Scientists usually map gene expression by anal…