For example, when someone with an oversensitivity to sound is exposed to a loud and bustling train station, AAC may provide a way to let a communication partner know that they feel uncomfortable and would like to leave. Therefore, having AAC in an autistic person’s communication toolkit can...
As a Autistic person I can say this, foods don’t affect us or make our Autism “worse”. Before you nut-jobs go off your rails, vaccines don’t cause Autism, foods don’t affect Autism, and we’re sick and tired of you idiots treating us as if we have Ebola or that we’re br...
The correct reaction to hearing about systematic injustices or oppression experienced by an autistic person is not to turn to the autistic person explaining this and exclaim: “but I would never!” That this response is in any way considered a legitimate one will never cease to baffle me. I’...
Autistic adults also suggested that non-autistic people could develop their own compensatory strategies to help create a society that is more autism friendly: "Communication is a two way street, so as much as I can understand the need to compensate in certain situations, non-autistics should deve...
In Lauren Belfer’s absorbing Ashton Hall (Ballantine, digital galley), there’s a secret room in an English manor house — and there’s a skeleton walled inside. The discovery by a curious, autistic boy sparks his mother, a frustrated academic, to research the house’s history going back...
When Karla Akins hoped that her autistic sons could learn to read and function independently, doctors warned her that those expectations would never be met. She set out to prove that, despite those warnings, all things are possible through God. ...
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(b) enrollment of two or more full-time therapists who had at least a Bachelor’s degree, 2 years of experience treating children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), ages 12–60 months; (c) completion of written informed consent; (d) participation in all training activities; and (e) ...
such as employment and socializing. The Digi-ID PLUS study was established with a team of seven people with an intellectual disability. Team members were hired as a diverse group to give insight into their lived experiences in reviewing and validating research findings. Their insights were key to...
As a liminal figure the autistic person does not fit the human stereotype. When I (Martine) was sixteen, I wrote in my diary that "I felt like Ariel with the dinglehopper". In this particular scene, the little mermaid sits on the royal banquet and starts to comb her hair with a fork...