Supporting Adolescents with Autism Using Technology to Interact with Peers

• By: Nicole Anthony, PhD Fayetteville State University
• January 1st, 2022
• adolescents, bullying, depression, internet safety, isolation, peers, social cues, social media, social-communication challenges, technology, Winter 2022 Issue
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Friendships are a vital part of adolescence. Friends provide advice and help with navigating through tough topics. As children grow into adolescence, they begin to rely more on the opinions of friends than parents to make sense of the world. Thus, adolescent friendships are an important resource...

Facilitating Plugged In: Helping Teens with ASD Navigate Life with Technology

• By: Danielle Francois, MS Shana Nichols, PhD ASPIRE Center for Learning and Development
• April 1st, 2017
• internet, parenting, social media, spring 2017 issue, technology
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Technology use is ubiquitous among today’s youth (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010). This probably does not come as a surprise because it seems that kids and their gadgets are everywhere. The current generation of youth has even been referred to as the iGeneration or the app generation. From...

The Dangers of Social Media for Individuals with Autism

• By: Nora Baladerian, PhD The Disability and Abuse Project
• January 1st, 2016
• bullying, hate crime, internet, predator, safety, social media
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The Disability and Abuse Project publishes a weekly news feed of all articles that have been published in the past week on abuse of people with disabilities. These focus on intellectual and developmental disabilities. Recently there has been an increase of articles describing solicitation by...