Sometimes total strangers are awesome.Source: The Autism Site

You’ve arrived in some distant land, and you have a few days to come back with an array of publishable images.  It’s easy if you want to photograph people in common tourist locations.  But what if you are out for something different?  If you are like me, you’ll want to shoot nature wi…

They want people with autism in this job.Source: The Autism Site

Intelligence on the spectrum is a lot more complex than you might think.Source: The Autism Site

This is a tragedy that could have been avoided.Source: The Autism Site

When it comes to communicating via email or text messaging, deaf people have to rely on English or other language keyboards even though sign language may be their primary language. Although deaf people read, write and lip read in their surrounding language, sign language can be independent of that. …

Darius Brown is a 5th grader who has been mainstreamed at Skyline Elementary School since kindergarten. Throughout grade school he received a lot of speech therapy services due to his inability to speak. The services taught DJ sign language to sign the words he couldn’t speak and other methods to co…

Are you familiar with Bookshare?Bookshare is a massive online library, and the world's largest collection of accessible titles that consists of almost 400,000 digital books meant for people around the world with print disabilities. Any person who has been confirmed by an expert that they have  …

Does the brain hold a clue that could help us identify autism?Source: The Autism Site

Be sure to talk to your doctor before making any medical decisions.Source: The Autism Site

I have this amazing son name Andrew who will be 3 next month. He has autism and sensory processing disorder. He has a lot of therapies and early interventions, but this kid does amazing things on his own. Everyday he does something new and he never gives up, always trying his very best. Andrew doesn…

Leah has an incredible talent to remember faces and names. “Her teacher once told me that Leah could be walking by a classroom, glance inside for a moment, and tell her who was absent,” Lori says. By Debra Muzikar Many autistic children have trouble making friends. Leah DeMonia when she was in 3rd g…

Could this treatment help a common obstacle of autism?Source: The Autism Site

Wandering, or eloping, is one of the scariest experiences an autism parent can face.Source: The Autism Site