Do vaccines cause autism? Do people with autism experience empathy? You tell us.Source: The Autism Site

Aidan Long is a 13-year-old from Montana who has suffered multiple daily seizures since he was 4. The seizures defy medical cure, and some of them continue for weeks, requiring Aidan to be airlifted to children’s hospitals in Denver or Seattle, says his father, Ben Long. The medical bills to Medicai…

The tendency of people with autism to not make eye contact is rooted in genetics, suggests a study of identical and fraternal twins, published today in Nature1. The researchers did not look at twins with autism. They found that neurotypical identical twins spend similar proportions of time looking a…

They responded by "basically passing the buck to somebody else."Source: The Autism Site

Our words matter.Source: The Autism Site

In this months’s ASAT feature, Diane Adreon, EdD answers a question about what to consider when helping a child gain independence. 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 …

By Megan Amodeo If you are reading this, you, a friend, or loved one most likely has received a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Even if you have not been diagnosed with ASD, you might be interested to know how challenging it can be to get the right diagnosis. I am a prime example of mis…

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Roughly 23 of every 10,000 children in India have autism, according to the first rigorous estimate of the country’s autism prevalence1. This rate, about 0.23 percent, is far less than the 1.47 percent in the United States. “The received wisdom is one percent of the world’s population has autism,” sa…

“…while it might seem that my son is in his own world, he is actually in two worlds, theirs and his, aware, conscious, and observant of both simultaneously.” by Erik Raschke and K. Kristiaan (instagram.com/K.Kristiaan) My ten year-old son cannot read, nor write, nor count higher th…

Independence Science recently launched the Sci-Voice Talking LabQuest 2 to help blind and low-vision students independently complete data-collection investigations during STEM labs. By integrating text-to-speech assistive technology with Vernier Software & Technology’s LabQuest 2 hardware device…

These convenient, shorthand terms can have some seriously negative effects.Source: The Autism Site

Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family during this difficult time.Source: The Autism Site

There’s no single way to teach children with autism. Regardless of which method a school adopts, though, it’s no mystery what helps them to thrive: calm, not chaos, in the classroom; one-on-one attention from teachers, aides and therapists; lessons tailored to the individual child’s needs, whether t…