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2 Utah children with autism get help from canine companions
Service and companion dogs have helped bring better lives to people with physical difficulties. But dogs can also be a big help to kids who are trying to cope with mental and emotional needs.
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LARPing Saved My Life
LARPing, or live-action roleplaying, is a game in which people create characters and act out storylines within fictional worlds, in real time, in costume. We go LARPing and meet Jon Gallagher, a LARPer with Asperger's syndrome, and see how LARPing helps him make friends, learn social skills, get a job, and in many ways, saves his life.
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Does Universal Autism Screening Make Sense?
It’s also worth remembering that education is kind of economically weird. It’s not just another thing you buy. Education isn’t only about individual gain. There’s a social aspect as well. We want everyone to have access to quality education because having an educated populace benefits all of us. We’re not there yet. (throw to inequality?)
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The effect of oxytocin nasal spray on social interaction deficits observed in young children with autism.
A world-first study has found a hormone commonly used to induce labour in pregnant women, oxytocin, has significant benefits for some children with autism.
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Blind photographer debuts photos of his nonverbal autistic sons
Bruce Hall,a legally blind photographer from Santa Ana, California, has taken 150,000 photos of his sons, Jack and James, as a way to bond with them since they are unable to communicate.
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Preparation for the workplace - Aspergers Test Site
Useful information. Wish I'd known this before I started work.
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Study finds altered brain chemistry in people with autism
MIT and Harvard University neuroscientists have found a link between a behavioral symptom of autism and reduced activity of a neurotransmitter whose job is to dampen neuron excitation. The findings suggest that drugs that boost the action of this neurotransmitter, known as GABA, may improve some of the symptoms of autism, the researchers say.
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The Invisible Women With Autism
Misdiagnosed and misunderstood, autistic women and girls frequently struggle to get the support they need. By Apoorva Mandavilli.
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The Doctor and the Nazis
Pediatrician Hans Asperger is known worldwide for the syndrome he first diagnosed. The rest of his story—in Vienna during WWII—has only recently come to light. By John Donvan and Caren Zucker.
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Donald Grey Triplett: The first boy diagnosed as autistic
The fulfilling life of Donald Grey Triplett offers an important lesson for today. Donald Grey Triplett was the first person to be diagnosed with autism. The fulfilling life he has led offers an important lesson for today, John Donvan and Caren Zucker write. After Rain Man, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, the next great autism portrayal the stage or screen might want to consider taking on is the life of one Donald Grey Triplett...
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To Find Autism Treatment, Chinese Scientists Create Transgenic Monkeys
Scientists in China say they used genetic engineering to create monkeys with a version of autism, an achievement that could make it easier to test treatments but that raises thorny practical and ethical questions over how useful such animal models will be. Neuroscientist Zilong Qiu of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences says his team has generated more than a dozen monkeys with a genetic error that in human children causes a rare syndrome whose symptoms...
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Gluten- and casein-free diet makes a meal of autism science
In some cases, clinicians recommend special diets; in others, they're instigated by parents eager to find anything that may help their child.
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My Autistic Brother’s Quest for Love
He’s still searching. By Danielle Bacher.
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Autism–It’s Different in Girls
New research suggests the disorder often looks different in females, many of whom are being misdiagnosed and missing out on the support they need
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What Does it Mean to ‘Look Autistic?’
A writer’s reflections on the pain of “passing” for neurotypical. By M.Nicole.R.Wildhood.
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To diagnose autism, we should be watching the eyes
Two separate groups of researchers have uncovered similar techniques for figuring out whether children have autism that's quick, cheap, easy, and highly accurate: tracking the way their eyes move using a webcam and software. The new procedures...
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To diagnose autism, we should be watching the eyes
Two separate groups of researchers have uncovered similar techniques for figuring out whether children have autism that's quick, cheap, easy, and highly accurate: tracking the way their eyes move using a webcam and software. The new procedures could ultimately lead to an earlier and more accurate diagnosis for affected patients. Until now, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been identified using parental reports, clinical observations and interviews with the children themselves.
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What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ From Autism After Magnetic Stimulation
For a long time, it was thought that people with autism spectrum disorder lacked emotion, that even the higher-functioning among them navigated the world like logical robots oblivious to “real” feelings. More recently, research has shown their social issues are more likely to stem from difficulty expressing emotion or reading the emotions of others. Though he wasn’t diagnosed with autism until he was 40, John Elder Robison felt isolated and disconnected throughout his entire...
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This nonspeaking teenager wrote an incredibly profound letter explaining autism
For the first 14 and a half years of Gordy’s life, Evan and Dara Baylinson had no reason to think their son could comprehend anything they said.
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Understanding Autism Through Stardew Valley
In the role-playing farming simulator Stardew Valley, building routine is a tool that helps you progress further, and I draw comparisons between this gameplay style and autism.
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