In 1996 Martijn Dekker of the Netherlands founded Independent Living on the Autistic Spectrum (InLv), an e-mail list for autistic people. First run by hand on dial-up, InLv was also the first fully autistic-run, self-hosted online autism community. With forums on topics from "advocacy" ...
Historically, it is accepted that individuals displayed autistic behaviour before Leo Kanner’s discovery.Victor the “Wild Boy of Aveyron” who was found in the early 1800s living wild in some woods, he was mute, liked sameness, etc. (Wild Boy of Aveyron, by Harlan Lane. pb book)1809,...
(horses, carriages, railroads, roller skates). The visual density, the telling of the story through movement and sound, the moral ambiguity of many of the characters – those alone are worth seeing the film for. Again, I felt like I was living in Wyoming over a century ago. I wasn’t...
Both autistic (44%) and comparison (47%) groups were enriched for PNMS exposure to examine sex steroid-related biomarkers across a stepwise change from the absence to presence of autism and PNMS: autism-/PNMS-, autism-/PNMS+ , autism+/PNMS- and autism+/PNMS+ . For the autism- ...
unaccompanied to and from school (https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/walk-to-school). There has been a greater reduction in the number of primaryschool aged childrencompared to secondary school aged children walking unaccompanied to and from school since 1970 (Shaw et al., 2012)....
Why do young adult children become independent so much later than they did in 1970, when the average age of independent living was 21? Why have reduced class sizes and increased per-pupil expenditures(花销) not resulted in higher academic achievement levels? Why is the mental health of today'...
Mr. C. was a deaf man referred for outpatient psychotherapy. He had had great difficulty making friends throughout his life and complained of loneliness and wanting a friend. He was very dependent on his job coach for helping him through the demands of daily living. He also had some difficu...
Secondly, and these are my own insights: While I did not work in ECE but with adolescents, some of my kids were autistic or on the spectrum. It was helpful to engage in play WITH the child or engage in parallel play with the child as close as tolerable (to the child). If not, th...
The Tokyo Electric Power CompanyFukushima Daiichi plant remains highly radioactive, with some 160,000 evacuees still living in temporary housing, and some land will be unfarmable for centuries. The difficult cleanup job will take 40 or more years, and cost many tens of billions of dollars, ...
To examine the (a) differences in independent living skills (ILS) and executive functions (EF) between autistic and neurotypical young adults, (b) the relationship between novel self-report and performance-based assessments of ILS and EF to criterion standard assessments in autistic young adults. ...