The myth that children grow out of autism can prevent parents from seeing and accepting their child as the wonderful human being they are and recognising their strengths.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Autism
Displaying 101 - 120 of 287 articles
Asking clear, concise, direct questions in job interviews can help employers hire highly capable, skilled workers with autism.
The link between testosterone and empathy is complicated. We don’t have all the answers yet.
A new study has found a link between being born by caesarean section and having a greater chance of being diagnosed with autism or ADHD. But there’s no evidence caesarean sections cause them.
This is how to design schools for autistic children.
What adults with autism told us about their everyday experiences.
Children with autism don’t usually begin therapy until they’re given a diagnosis, which rarely occurs before the age of two. But new research shows there’s benefit to starting early.
Employers that make accommodations for workers with autism can help all workers and make our workplaces more just and productive for all.
To understand what we suspect, so far, about the way in which some people with autism may see the world, we need to examine how we use the bank of experiences we have stored in memory.
Attributes of autism can have a hugely positive role in society.
Lee, who is blind and autistic, upended the assumption, held by many, that people with disabilities lack rich interior lives.
A new technology has enabled neuroscientists to examine the chemistry of individual brain cells. The finding reveal how genes are regulated differently in brain cells of people with autism compared to neurotypical people.
Autistic and artistic, you can be both.
A six-province study of principals finds those who prioritize spending time boosting staff report high levels of effectiveness supporting inclusive schools.
A medical model tends to see disability as an individual impairment, but disability — including autism — is part of all of our precarious, precious lives.
Parents of autistic children in Wales face a choice between English-medium specialist education or Welsh-medium mainstream education.
An inclusive education researcher says the government’s consolation plan to boost school funding for autism services with no investment in early childhood education flies in the face of evidence.
This is just one example of how being ‘different’ can lead to being treated differently.
The very short list of winners, and a growing list of losers, in Doug Ford’s Ontario does not bode well for the government’s political future – or the province.
An autism policy researcher and the mother of an affected child weighs in on the recent changes announced to the Ontario Autism Program.
Top contributors
-
Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
-
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Bath
-
Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology, La Trobe University
-
Lecturer in Psychology, King's College London
-
Professor, Macquarie University
-
Professor, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
-
Doctor of Creative Arts; Writer and researcher, Western Sydney University
-
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge
-
Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Director, Krongold Clinic (Research), Monash University
-
Principle Academic in Psychology, Bournemouth University
-
Associate Professor of Educational Studies in School Psychology, University of Calgary
-
Lecturer in Inclusive Education, University of Glasgow
-
Professor of Inclusive Practice, Sheffield Hallam University
-
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
-
Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Sydney
