People do not see the scope of autism…Ford Motor Co was seeking to hire those on the Autism spectrum b/c of attention to detail/focus.55:11 One of the goals of GCP is to raise awareness of what an autistic person looks like which has spread by word of mouth, inspiring others to ...
Autistic people have larger responses to single light flashes in the retina of the eye and this new study shows that increasing GABA activity can reduce this response. Finally this week, a study by the University of Sheffield has cast doubt on the efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation ...
or actors portraying autistic behavior31,32, we examined impression formation based upon authentic behavior under conditions in which first impressions are truly formed. Here, we present three studies conceived and conducted independently by three research groups assessing observers’ first impressions of—...
We tested three competing hypotheses: (1) that gaze patterns of autistic individuals are less reliable or noisier than those of controls, (2) that atypical gaze patterns are individually reliable but heterogeneous across autistic individuals, or (3) that atypical gaze patterns are individually reliabl...
is socially highly able. He exhibits no unconventional personal oddities (aside from any he consciously _choose_ to take on for effect). He has no autistic traits, but not having so many of these special intelligence-enhancing genes or mutations, the majority of such people are of quite ordin...
How do the characteristics of autism spectrum disorders impact teaching and learning? 2 Impairments in social behavior Communication difficulties Stereotypic or unusual behaviors 3 Autistic Disorder Childhood Disintegrative Disorder Rett’s Disorder Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherw...
5. Just doing whatever you feel like.Some PAs really don’t get that even if someone is developmentally disabled, or especially if they’re nonverbal, they’re still your boss. Just because they can’t say “I want to go to a movie” doesn’t mean it’s okay to take them with you...
Dogs communicate well without language. So, for an autistic child that struggles with verbal communication, a dog can be a great ally. Dogs are very good listeners! A dog can offer sensory support for a child with sensory needs. The reassuring pressure of a dog’s head in a child’s lap...
54. Hobson RP (1986) The autistic child's appraisal of expressions of emotion. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 27: 321–342. 55. Celani G, Battacchi MW, Arcidiacono L (1999) The understanding of the emotional meaning of facial expressions in people with autism....
In what Mahler (1968) described as anomnipotent autistic orbit, the malignant dissociative contagion becomes a field of the totalizing knowledge and our war rhetoric transforms the whole of society into a field of perception that is manipulated by the media in regard to what we are “allowed”...