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Young Adults With Autism More Likely To Be Unemployed, Isolated
More than half of young people with autism had neither a job nor educational plans in the first two years after high school, a study finds.
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Massive Study Proves Measles Vaccine Still Doesn't Cause Autism
A massive study of 95,000 children finds no link between MMR vaccines and autism spectrum disorders.
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The corrosive cult of compliance in our schools
Rise of zero-tolerance policies strips school officials of the ability to exercise common sense
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Why Autism Is Different in the Brains of Girls Than in Boys
The reasons why girls are less often diagnosed may be both biological and social
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Who Decides Where Autistic Adults Live?
For many intellectually disabled people, large campuses or farmsteads may be better options than small group homes. But new state laws could make it hard for big facilities to survive.
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Ecstasy may soon be a treatment for social anxiety among autistic adults
Researchers are planning the first pilot study of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of social anxiety in autistic adults. In a recent review in press ...
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Study finds children with autism don't react to good and bad smells
Children with autism spectrum disorder often have either an exaggerated or a numbed response to sight, sound and touch. This behavior is so common that it’s one of the diagnostic criteria for the disorder. Now, a new study suggests that children with autism might also experience smells differently from children who have typical development.
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Can autism be measured by a sniff?
Imagine the way you might smell a rose. You'd take a nice big sniff to breathe in the sweet but subtle floral scent. Upon walking into a public restroom, you'd likely do just the opposite -- abruptly limiting the flow of air through your nose. Now, researchers have found that people with autism spectrum disorder don't make this natural adjustment like other people do.
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Mom Creates Clothing Line for Children With Autism
For most people, getting dressed every morning seems like a simple task.
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Brainlike Structures Made from Stem Cells Shed Light on Autism
Brain “organoids” made from the stem cells of autism patients could help researchers determine the factors that lead to the disorder.
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Mind Games
When my husband and I set out to find a nursery school for our daughter, Faith, nearly ten years ago we took the decision seriously. I looked at large parent-run cooperatives and visited small home-based operations. Jeff studied the pink towers and chiming bells at the Montessori school on the hill... By Sandra Steingraber. (2011)
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Which terms should be used to describe autism? Perspectives from the UK autism community
Recent public discussions suggest that there is much disagreement about the way autism is and should be described. This study sought to elicit the views and preferences of UK autism community members – autistic people, parents and their broader support network – about the terms they use to describe autism.
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Understanding of The Disability Rights Movement: On The Washington Post’s Neurodiversity Article
I just read “How autistic adults banded together to start a movement,” Sandhya Somashekhar’s Washington Post article on the neurodiversity movement. While I was reading it, I realized...
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What We Can Learn from Programming a Computer to Be Autistic
A new neuro-simulation framework offers insights into the physiological roots of autism and maybe even schizophrenia and aging.
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Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney
Owen barely communicated with my wife and me. But he opened up to the parrot from “Aladdin.” By Ron Suskind. (March 2014)
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Wizard Mode
Wizard Mode is the story of Robert Gagno as he rises up the ranks of the international pinball circuit while striving to gain his independence and transcend the label of autism. This is a short film version of our debut feature length documentary of the same name coming out in September.
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This Odd-Looking Clothing Is Designed to Help Autistic Kids
Sensewear isn't ordinary apparel. It's a wild-looking line of prototype clothing designed to help treat people with sensory perception disorders.
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Rewriting The History of Autism
How newly discovered documents show that the work of a crucial autism researcher was ignored, perpetuating misinformation about autistic children. By Elon Green.
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‘NeuroTribes,’ by Steve Silberman
The history of science is studded with stories of simultaneous discovery, in which two imaginative souls (or more!) turn out to have been digging tunnels to the same unspoiled destination. The most fabled example is calculus, developed independently in two different countries by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.
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'NeuroTribes' Examines The History — And Myths — Of The Autism Spectrum
Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans and a discredited scientific paper about childhood vaccines shaped our current understanding of autism.
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