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By Austin John Jones A couple years back, I had an incident at a summer camp I was on the staff for. I was just about to do something one of my co-workers asked me to do, when suddenly, my brain basically slowed down to a halt. My thought processing was very smallish, my speech became robotic and me…

"Parents are told: 'Forget your child, grieve for your child and accept the fact that they will be put in an institution'."Source: The Autism Site

The mental healthcare system failed him miserably.Source: The Autism Site

Punishment procedures are, with reason, very controversial. Today, I’d like to clear up a few concerns and issues about punishment procedures, especially in regards to the ethical obligations of behavior analysts. First, it’s important to define the terms we’re discussing. In behavior analysis, when…

Becca Lory continues to share important self-care ideas she uses to thrive as a woman on the autism spectrum. By Becca Lory, CAS, BCCS In about two weeks, I go away again for work. I’m not a happy traveler. It causes me a ridiculous amount anxiety. I hate everything about it; the flying, the traffic…

Gene expression patterns in the brains of people with autism are similar to those of people who have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, according to a large study of postmortem brain tissue1. The findings appear today in Science. All three conditions show an activation of genes in star-shaped brain …

Adults with autism who undergo a therapy designed to bolster social learning show cognitive benefits that may increase their chances of employment, according to a new study1. So-called ‘cognitive enhancement therapy’ combines computer-based tasks to improve problem-solving and memory with structured…

An Autistic woman reviews a movie about an Autistic woman by Helen Wallace-Iles Please Stand By is the story of one autistic woman’s journey towards independence and follows her on an adventure with the sort of highs and lows we can all relate to. Played by the brilliant Dakota Fanning, our heroine …

Documentary producers at Optomen USA are looking for people with neuro-divergent conditions such as Aspergers or Autism who would like their assistance finding employment on the documentary TV series EMPLOYABLE ME. EMPLOYABLE ME seeks to prove that having a neurological condition can be viewed as an…

Can you imagine what life would be like if you struggled with the skills most people use every day?Source: The Autism Site

The mental healthcare system failed him miserably.Source: The Autism Site

Autism researchers need no longer worry that their basic research studies will become entangled in the red tape associated with clinical trials. On 17 January, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) released revised guidelines indicating what constitutes a clinical trial. It nixes examples fro…

By Angela Weddle When the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil came on the scene, I immediately knew I had to have it. This was the digital art platform I had been dreaming of. I had done digital art off and on since high school. Using Photoshop version 4 and Mac G4s, and later crude digital painting apps on v…