Even though April is National Autism Awareness Month, all year 'round we should be educating ourselves about what autism actually is and what it looks like. According to data collected by the Centers ...

Words of wisdom from those who have lived, researched and written about autism When my son was diagnosed with autism at age 4, I had mixed emotions. I was relieved to finally have an explanation for ...

A friend of mine told me of his work overseas. For the first two or three years he lived there, the people he worked with assumed he was of borderline intellectual functioning. They scratched their ...

Facilitated communication is a form of alternative communication developed to help individuals with severe autism or other individuals who cannot express their thoughts and feelings vocally.

Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to ...