One in five Americans is estimated to have a mental health condition at any given time. But getting treatment remains difficult — and it’s worse for children, especially those who identify as black or Hispanic. That’s the major finding in research published 12 August in the International Journal of…

Brain areas that spring to life when a person is at rest are less coordinated in girls with autism than in typical girls1. This asynchrony may be associated with problems recognizing emotions. The so-called default mode network is a set of brain regions that are involved in daydreaming, rumination a…

Creating opportunities for interactions is key when working with any child, but it is especially important when working with children with autism. ABA often gets a bad rap for being staid or leaving a kid stuck at a table doing discrete trials for hours on end. In reality, it should be neither! Whil…

It occurred to me suddenly the other day, my daughters aren’t babies anymore. I know this may sound ridiculous. Of course I know the ages of my own children. I have two teenagers and a tween. As we near the middle of summer and I start to ponder the back to school schedule, I realize now that …

A new imaging technique allows researchers to illuminate the junctions between neurons in a living person’s brain1. The method may reveal shifts in the distribution or number of these connections, called synapses, in individuals with epilepsy and other brain conditions. Previously, scientists could …

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“I am a 10 year old boy trapped in a body that does not follow my instructions.  I am a boy with the same dreams and aspirations as any other boy.  I am not defective or flawed, I am ever evolving.  I am not an ordinary boy, I am autistic and apraxic and I am a fellow human…I am not a pr…

Look at those darling eyes! He's looking a little like Puss 'n' Boots, just before he attacks. :)Source: The Autism Site

Although there may be a genetic or biological predisposition to acquire the “schizophrenic trait” of expanded experience, it is really only allowed full expression in the willingness to learn about the unconventional. This willingness alone might be enough to acknowledge and engage in the little gat…

By Mikey Allcock My journey is through my years in my mind. It is my poem. I have put photographs with it so others can make a dream. FORT I saw dark tunnels It was an adventure I opened the door to an empty roomI climbed the stairs I found darkness I opened the door to an empt…

Children who have an older sibling with autism are 14 times more likely to have the condition than are those without a family history of the condition. This finding is based on a large study that relied on health records in California1. The study also confirms that younger brothers of children with …

Eye tracking is about where we look, what we look at, how much time we spend looking at it, how our pupils react to different kinds of visual stimulation and when we blink. Put most simply, eye tracking refers to the measurement of eye activity. More specifically, eye tracking implies the recording …

Remember the inexpensive portable Braille printer made from Lego blocks Braigo? invented by a then 12 year old Shubham Banerjee, it created quite a lot of noise in the technology world! Braigo Labs, the company founded by Shubham, has come up with another neat invention that can be quite beneficial …

Stephen and Geeta have been married for twenty years. Watch as Stephen, a man on the spectrum, describes his personal history with her!Source: The Autism Site