While these fortune tellers may not be able to tell your future, they are sure to help your children with autism develop their social skills!  This free printable, created by Joel Shaul from Autism Teaching Strategies, makes social learning fun by having students pair up and offer conversation start…

Autism researchers are reaching out to families to build the nation’s biggest repository of genetic information to date from individuals with the condition. Unveiled today, the ambitious new project, called SPARK, aims to gather information from 50,000 people with autism, along with their relatives.…

Autism in Love, The United States of Autism, Sounding the Alarm, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Other Sister, A Mile in His Shoes, Forrest Gump and White Frog are now streaming on Netflix. Part 2 will be movies available on DVD By Keri Bowers There is not, has never been, and will never be, …

It is not uncommon for parents or practitioners to implement a new intervention that appears to be working well, then after a few weeks or months report that the intervention has stopped working. Often, the change in behavior in feels like a mystery and leaves people scrambling for a new interventio…

I’ve many times given advice on sensory seeking behaviours in autistic children, how to aid them and why they may occur. While explaining that a child spinning for example, is seeking to feed their vestibular sense or that a child stamping their feet is gaining proprioceptive feedback from the…

The Parenting Asperger’s Blog by Dave Angel shares a mix of inspirational stories, solutions, strategies and occasional humorous outbursts for parents of children with Asperger’s. Your blog: Parenting Asperger’s Blog Your City, Country: Portsmouth, UK What inspired you to write a blog: When I first …

Mice missing a gene called PTCHD1 in a sensory structure deep inside the brain are hyperactive and show attention deficits — features seen in some children with autism. Using a drug to substitute for the gene’s effects tempers these symptoms1. The findings, published 23 March in Nature, suggest that…

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By Keri Bowers Yesterday I posted Part 1 of Autism Films streaming on Netflix in the United States. In 2016, Netflix expanded into 130 different countries and are in every major country except China. The following films are unavailable for live streaming in the United States, and are available on Ne…

Help teach your students on the spectrum about social distance and intimacy using this free Circles Program from the Geneva Centre for Autism! The program is based on six concentric circles that represent varying degrees of closeness, from the relationship one has with oneself to strangers. The pro…

Mutations in a set of neurons that dampen brain activity may be the source of seizures in an autism-related condition. The neurons lack UBE3A, the gene mutated or missing in Angelman syndrome and duplicated in some cases of autism. The findings, published 6 April in Neuron, call out this subset of i…

If you use Google products like Android phones or Chromebook, you probably already know how well their accessibility features work. Google is constantly working on improving existing features and adding new ones to make their devices much more accessible and friendly for people with disabilities. Re…

For anyone seeking a career in the assistive technology realm, there are various educational options available that they can pursue to start their assistive technology careers. However, technology, especially assistive technology, has seen a paradigm shift in recent years, and continues to make grea…

If Cookie Monster could play any math literacy game, we’re sure this free Cookie Jar Number Matching activity would be the winner! This free printable from Totschooling.net includes three representations of numbers one through ten to help build counting and number recognition skills. To play, …