For Savannah Treviño-Casias, this week’s news about the U.S. college admissions cheating scandal was galling, considering how much red tape the Arizona State University senior went through to get disability accommodations when she took the SAT exam. “It felt like such a big slap in the face,” said T…

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Autism BrainNet, a repository of postmortem brains, has new tissue from more than 150 brains, including 59 from people with confirmed or possible autism. The newly acquired tissue more than doubles the number of autism brains available to researchers through the repository. Autism BrainNet is one of…

She went through something unimaginable, losing her baby during delivery.Source: The Autism Site

Problems with the minute ‘factories’ that yield energy for cells — the mitochondria — contribute to learning problems and other traits of fragile X syndrome, a new study suggests1. The findings also unexpectedly implicate huntingtin, the protein mutated in Huntington’s disease, in fragile X. Fragile…

A much-touted behavioral therapy for autism, the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), may not be as effective as its creators had hoped1. In the latest study of the therapy, it did not improve children’s intelligence quotients (IQ) or adaptive behavior any more than other treatments. Children treated wi…

Some of the books being removed tout the benefits of ingesting or bathing in bleach-like substances or using them as an enema.Source: The Autism Site

After her brother died, her family feared for her life.Source: The Autism Site

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Megan McCarron, MS, BCBA. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s free newsletter, Science in Autism Treatment, and like them on Facebook! I am a BCBA working in an ABA Te…

Who are the people from the disability community making the world better for all of us? That’s what the inclusion team at San Francisco Bay Area libraries wanted to know. They reached out to the public for their opinions and were enthusiastically overwhelmed with responses. As a result, 54 individua…

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A group of leading researchers is calling for a moratorium on editing the DNA of human embryos that women intend to carry to term. The moratorium would be temporary — the group suggests five years — and compliance is voluntary, in that there are no explicit penalties for violating it. But it would g…

The change in funding is supposed to clear wait lists for services -- but at what cost?Source: The Autism Site

I don’t remember much about the day I tried to kill myself. I remember sitting numbly in a beige office as I was let go from my first job after less than two weeks. No one would tell me what I had done wrong. I remember walking along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to the closest subway stati…