Becoming a professional speaker takes hard work, confidence, and practice. By Ron Sandison In April for Autism Acceptance Month, I spoke to 3,500 students and staff. During the past 7 years, I have spoken to over 250,000 people and I have presented everywhere from Israel to Madagascar. I speak at ov…

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Dr. Karen Parenti, MS, PsyD CEO/Executive Director, and Heather Rothman, BS, LBS, Director of Day Services, Special Friends Foundation. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s fre…

Researchers share advice about how they find connection and gain visibility via online platforms. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Researchers also share insight into navigating the academic job market and “everything you wanted to know about running a lab but were afraid to ask.” SourceSource: Spectrum News

Next-generation trackers could realize a long-standing research dream: conducting sleep studies in large numbers of autistic people. SourceSource: Spectrum News

But the alternatives, including living-brain biopsies, raise logistical and ethical questions, experts say. SourceSource: Spectrum News

By Dianne Loyet 3 poems about being autistic. 1. Please i keep the world’s chaos at bay by classifying and quantifying its minutia seven times i hear "cross street with caution vehicles may not stop" two steps i take across one square of sidewalk i am captain kirk keeping the sky in place …

Scientists on social media this week discussed a failed attempt to replicate some functional MRI results and children’s journeys to an autism diagnosis in the United Kingdom. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 29 May. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Minimally verbal autistic preschoolers gained new words and phrases in a head-to-head comparison of two interventions. SourceSource: Spectrum News

by Daniel Antonsson In my teenage years, I was a cautious boy. Girls seemed like they came from another planet and I had no idea what to talk with them about whatsoever. I was interested in motorcycles and martial arts while girls liked stuff like fashion, horses and boys (at least as far as I knew)…

In this episode of “Synaptic,” Kasari talks about the need for inclusion in educating autistic children, what drew her into the autism research field, and growing up on the family farm. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Changes to the DSM-5’s diagnostic criteria for autism were meant to add clarity, but instead they generated new questions. SourceSource: Spectrum News

Project Gameface is a promising new project by Google that is designed to make gaming more accessible in the future. Inspired by Lance Carr, a quadriplegic video game streamer, Project Gameface is a hands free gaming mouse that enables people to control their computer cursor with their head movem…