Whether guilty or not, the criminal justice system flounders when dealing with autism.
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Autistic defendants and prisoners are suffering at the hands of an out of date criminal justice system.
Researchers have identified a specific difference shared by most (but not all) brains of people who had autism.
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One of the big questions in autism research is whether autism is a single disorder or many different disorders that happen to present in the same way.
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Autism first began to be routinely diagnosed in children in the 70s. It is only now that we are beginning to understand how the condition changes with age.
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New research shows macaques can show autism-like behaviour.
Students with autism often need to take a break from the demands of the classroom.
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Teachers’ lack of confidence in supporting students with autism calls for a better understanding of the disorder and how it may affect learning.
Children express creativity through ‘pretend play.’
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Summer can likely be full of activities that you do with your child. Here’s what research shows on how to boost your child’s creativity.
The NDIS poses many more challenges to parents with children newly diagnosed with developmental delay.
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Informal early support through intervention programs helps parents understand their child’s newly diagnosed disability. But what will happen when, under the NDIS, these services no longer exist?
Unfortunately, there’s no ‘one size fits all.’
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There’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach. But a lot of little things – from colors to appliance noise – can make a big difference.
Deficiencies in a critical nutrient can lead to an abnormally wired brain. Illustration of a network of nerve cells in the.
brain.
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A gene mutation that causes problems for neural stem cells – the building blocks of the brain – could be corrected by adding carnitine.
Navigating work and stress can be hard for anyone, but especially so if you have ASD.
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The outlook can be bleak for people with ASD who have difficulty navigating the stressful work world. A trial project in Connecticut sought to find a new way to help them become truly independent.
Autism. It’s not just a boy thing.
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Many girls with autism go undiagnosed, perhaps because they’re good at camouflaging their autistic traits.
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The way children are assessed for special educational needs is still a postcode lottery.
The revelation that autism didn’t have one cause helped researchers change their thinking.
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One of the great and enduring mysteries of autism is what causes the brain to develop so differently.
Symptoms that can signify autism can also mean other things.
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A recent survey of paediatricians found they often lacked enough information to accurately diagnose an Autism Spectrum Disorder in children.
Mindfulness has been found to improve negative behaviours from intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder.
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A recent review of studies has shown that mindfulness meditation helps people with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder reduce their mental and physical problems.
Is normal behavior being pathologized?
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Autism has gone from a rare disorder to one that affects one in 68 children in a few decades.
Writing out a cure?
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In the age of the human genome, it’s tempting to think genetic research could solve every disease and disorder.
What are you looking at?
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Technologies that predict the possibility of a neurological disorder have the weight of affecting conceptions of not just “what” these children have but “who” these children will become.
Research found children with autism understand social cues when prompted, but they usually choose not to interact.
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People with autism spectrum disorder don’t get the same benefits from socialising with other people. So why force them to with methods that aren’t true to life anyway?
Words are important.
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The decision about whether to say a ‘person with autism’ or an ‘autistic person’ is never clear cut.