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" ...
Even with very young children, we attempt to teach the foundation skills for as much independence as possible in the areas of self- care, communication, vocational skills, leisure and recreational interests, and community living. So we focus our educational day on very concrete events: using the...
The Walk to School Campaign, however, support the view that parents should be responsible for deciding when their child is confident and capable to walk unaccompanied to and from school (https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/walk-to-school). There has been a greater reduction in the number of ...
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- ...
(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...
autistic child as being non-verbal; oblivious to his surroundings including the people in it; indulging in repetitive movements and mentally retarded. This stereotype is still considered ‘classic autism’ today. But while both Kanner and Asperger acknowledged that these children existed both of them...
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'...
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. ...
Hustyi KM, Hall SS, Quintin E-M, Chromik LC, Lightbody AA, Reiss AL. The relationship between autistic symptomatology and independent living skills in adolescents and young adults with fragile X syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord. 2015;45:1836-44....