For example, some individuals with neurodivergent conditions may experience significant challenges that can impact their ability to function in certain environments, such as if they are nonverbal or experience significant learning difficulties. All this being said, we’d like to reemphasize the fact ...
The change to the DSM entry for Asperger's is controversial to some, as people who do not experience intense autism traits and who may have been previously diagnosed as having Asperger's now receive the same diagnosis as those who are non-verbal, intellectually challenged, and in need of sig...
Do autistic babies sleep more? Children with autismare more likely than typical children to have had problems falling asleep as infants, according to a new study1. These infants also have more growth in the hippocampus, the brain's memory hub, from age 6 to 24 months. ...
The team found that mothers passed only half of their structural variants on to their autistic children—a frequency that would be expected by chance alone—suggesting that variants inherited from mothers were not associated with autism. But surprisingly, fathers did pass on substantially more than ...
Science hasn't been able to answer that question definitively, but there are some interesting theories about the reasons for blushing. Theories of Blushing Embarrassment and the propensity to blush appear to develop around kindergarten age -- as these children in Nanjing, China, are discovering -...
There’s a movie that’s going to come up, that’s going to show what happens when you take this kind of junk food away. The child in the movies is five, and she’s a nonverbal autistic girl, and you get her on a real food diet, get the vegetable oils and sugars out of her...
kittens—and even then, it has formed no conceptual understanding. in contrast, even small children are actually very good at forming hypotheses and learning from a small number of examples. autonomous vehicles must make do with algorithms that cannot reliably extrapolate beyond the scenari...
things the other typical children were expected to do, such as sitting in their seat and not talking to classmates. They aren’t being allowed to do “whatever they want”–an assumption some people will jump to when anyone raises the notion that autistic children should be allowed...
Since 2013, people who were once diagnosed as having a PDD-NOS autism disorder are now placed in the overall autism spectrum disorder (ASD) category. The PDD-NOS diagnosis is most often called atypical autism, autistic tendencies, or autistic traits in a person. ...
she wrote. "His name is BJ & he is autistic. While he has the body of a 21-year-old, he loves Halloween." She added, "Please help us keep his spirit alive and happy. So when you see the blue bucket, share a piece of candy. Spread awareness! These precious people are not ‘...