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New robot therapies are based on the assumption that autistic behaviour is robotic. Critics argue that this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the condition

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The male sex bias in autism may in large part be a product of how common diagnostic tools measure traits in boys versus girls at a single point in time, according to a new study.

Funding cuts and growing demand have left hundreds of thousands of Texans to struggle with mental illness without adequate support.

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This article is a reflective account of a researcher’s journey whilst embarking on a study which was political in its intentions and participatory in its orientation. Learning from feminist writing...

This article is a reflective account of a researcher’s journey whilst embarking on a study which was political in its intentions and participatory in its orientation. Learning from feminist writing...

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It is estimated that nearly 90% of children on the autism spectrum exhibit sensory atypicalities. What aspects of sensory processing are affected in autism? Although sensory processing can be studied along multiple dimensions, two of the most basic ones involve examining instantaneous sensory respon …

News Written by: Panda Mery, Dinah Murray & Kabie Brook Last month, the Autism Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials (AIMS-2-Trials) was launched as the largest ever grant given to autism resear…

The state of Illinois paid for a $3,000 assistive device for speech apraxia. It was trash.

This is part 2 in a series about sensory sensitivities and atypical sensory processing. Read the other parts:    Part 1  |  Part 3  | Part 4 —— I don’t like pistachios. I have a s…

Imagine having no choice but to zoom in on life.  The trash dumpster whose rancid odors assault you from across the parking lot.  The (false) car alarms in that same parking lot.  The children scre…

Autistic meltdowns and temper tantrums are not the same thing. Autistic meltdowns typically occur as a response to being overwhelmed.

Elizabeth Bartmess elizabethbartmess.com This is a three-part series. Part II explores Diversity in Autistic Characteristics and Demographics. Part III explores Setting, Plot, and Character Growth. “A lot of writers and actors seem to be able to get their heads around what autism basically is, in terms of language, sensory, and social communication difficulties. But then it’s as if they don’t know, or can’t extrapolate to, the full range of experiences that autistic people actually live. That things have happened to us, and things have happened in certain ways for us all our lives, and those things have had consequences for who we become and who we are….[T]he autistic characters [readers and viewers] are used to seeing have no depth of experience. They are people without history.” —Chavisory, at Chavisory’s Notebook This series is about what autistic characters look like when they’re written well, when they have the depth of experience…

**Disclaimer – I am not an autism expert. I am only talking from my experience of autism, and also from what I have learned from conversations with other autistic people close to me. I am not…

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Solving societal problems such as climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers from varying disciplines could work together collaboratively—through an "undisciplinary" approach, a new Cornell study suggests.