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Coping with Autism: A Mother’s Journey
…Group of the Association of ABAI, at dddc.rutgers.edu/autismsig/ ASAT Association for Science in Autism Treatment, at asatonline.org BACB Behavior Analysts Certification Board (find BCBAs in your local area at www.bacb.com)…
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Examining the Challenges Service Providers Have Faced as a Result of COVID-19
…of the agency; they insist that staff come to work even though they have not been tested; and insist on staff coming to work even though they have family obligations…
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Autism Plus Wandering
…injury or death. An Attraction to Water Given the high number of wandering-related drownings, some in the community have come to speculate as to why those on the spectrum are…
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Simons Foundation: Funder of Basic Science Research, Early Mover in Autism Science
…gather 50,000 families (in which at least one member is diagnosed with autism) in an online research community. Seen through that lens, it is not surprising that few in the…
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Support and Social Groups: An Essential and Vital Need of the Autistic Community
…our community. After a while, however, its members realized that there was even greater interest in matters relating to socialization, to which the focus of the group was changed. Over…
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PEERS: A Parent-Supported Evidence Based Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with ASD
…evolve as common areas of struggle for young people with ASD (Laugeson, Frankel, Gantman, Dillon & Mogil, 2012). Specific social deficits in persons with ASD often involve “poor social communication,…
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Affordable Housing Advocacy: An Approach to Success
…municipality The genesis of a chapter housing committee Housing Committee Our housing committee is the lynch pin of our affordable housing advocacy efforts. The primary focus is education (first the…
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Assessment and Understanding of Fear in Children with an ASD
…an ASD is a challenge for caregivers as well as service providers and researchers. Common deficits in ASD such as poor communication skills and difficulty with emotion identification and labeling,…
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Boys with Regressive Autism Have Larger Brains than Age-Matched Health Counterparts
…not early onset autism, have larger brains than their healthy counterparts. The study is published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition. It was…
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Using Gene Editing, Neuroscientists Develop a New Model for Autism
…of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders have yielded drug candidates that have been tested in clinical trials, but none of them have succeeded. Many pharmaceutical companies have given up on…
