Update 2/6/2018 I’m collecting favorite quotes about autism from some of my favorite people. Please share your own in the comments and if I like it, I may add it to the list. 1. “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism,” Dr. Stephen Shore…

Best known as Martin Crane, he always preferred his home stage at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.Source: The Autism Site

Robert Watkins reviews the film Please Stand By from his autistic perspective and interviews screenwriter Michael Golamco about the film’s origins and the inspiration behind his Star Trek-loving, autistic female protagonist. By Robert Watkins The act of writing is very comfortable to me. It fits ver…

Children of women who are hospitalized for health problems during pregnancy may develop poor physical, social, cognitive or emotional skills, a large study of children in Australia suggests1. These traits are common among children with autism. The results jibe with mounting evidence that prenatal ex…

The moving experience prompted one passenger to reach out and thank those who went above and beyond.Source: The Autism Site

Two new databases that catalog the genes expressed in specific brain cells could help researchers interpret data on gene expression in postmortem brains1,2. Scientists could use the resources to say, for example, whether changes in gene expression seen in autism brains stem from a loss or gain of a …

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They share characteristics but are also quite distinct.Source: The Autism Site

Roughly one in five children who has an extra piece of chromosome 7 also meets the criteria for an autism diagnosis, according to a new study1. The study is the first rigorous look at autism features in children with a duplication of chromosomal region 7q11.23. The resulting syndrome, dubbed Dup7, c…

This video is a must-see!Source: The Autism Site

No one should ever have to go through this kind of situation.Source: The Autism Site

John Elder Robison is free range Aspergian male, having grown up in the 1960s before the diagnosis existed. Today, he has claimed his spot on the autism spectrum and he's also an adjunct professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. …

This article originally appeared at www.bsci21.org.  Nearly six months had gone by since we began Lily’s home-based ABA program, and she had not mastered a single target of a single program. Not one. I stared blankly at my own furrowed reflection through the graph on my computer screen. Wh…

Neurons from people with autism have an unusual pattern of chemical tags that turn genes on and off, a study of postmortem brains suggests1. Though preliminary, the results add to mounting evidence that these tags, called methyl groups, contribute to autism, says lead investigator Evan Elliott, assi…