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...
He explains that Price differs substantially from other people with special powers of recall, such as autistic savants(自闭学者), because she uses no strategies to help her remember and even does a surprisingly poor job on some memory tests. It’s difficult for her to memorize poems or ...
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. ...
ARV, irrespective of awareness, may reveal atypical facial information processing patterns in autistic brains.A substantial contributor to mortality in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the occurrence of therapy-resistant viral reactivations. Trials at single centers have revealed ...
clinic and family, as well as inconvenience for the parents involved. However, in other instances the clinic ADOS assessment could be a more efficient and effective assessment tool than preschool observation. Conclusions and recommendations in this respect would have to be made on an individual ...
(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) ...