Category: Autism News

Anchorage School District Chief Academic Officer Sven Gustafson speaks to hundreds of people gathered to hear about the district’s change to career academy high schools. (Tim Rockey/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage School District officially launched their “career academies” initiative for area high schools during a conference at the University of Alaska Anchorage on Thursday. Hundreds…

Leadership of an anti-violence nonprofit that runs programs within the Allentown School District is calling for the removal of a school board director over what they called “unprofessional” behavior. Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley staff said they filed a formal complaint with the district about Director Phoebe Harris and want her removed from the…

Experts and parents of special needs children hail these moves as a good first step, but in practice, how far does it address their needs? And does it bring Singapore closer to being an autism-friendly society? “I was a bit afraid just now because Dzakwan was getting a bit agitated. But because he had some…

Cell spectrum: Single-cell techniques identify subtypes of interneurons that have distinct shapes and firing patterns. Allen Institute for Brain Science New catalogs detail thousands of cell types that populate the human brain and that of our closest primate relatives. The findings appear in 21 papers published today in Science, Science Advances and Science Translational Medicine.…

Sometimes we forget how much simple acts of kindness mean to others or how they can transform a day. But leading with compassion is so important because we never really know what other people are going through beneath the surface. And often, people are going through more than we think. This story from Florida reminds…

When we think of autism, our frame of reference can be limited to students with ASD in our school systems. While it is true that autism is an important topic of discussion in relation to thinking about how to teach children with autism, what is often overlooked is the effect that ASD has on adults…

“Garden Party” by George Zuniga at Project Onward As a university professor in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders, I conduct various research studies. For several years, I included the study of people with autism who are visual artists in my research agenda. Cleveland State University funded my research with a Faculty Scholarship Initiative…

New research suggests that nearly 40% of children diagnosed with autism as toddlers may no longer qualify for the label within a few years. The findings come from a study published this month in the journal JAMA Pediatrics that looked at 213 children who received a clinical diagnosis of autism between 12 and 36 months.…

Below is a press release from New England Dental Group, which has a location in Wilmington on Ballardvale Street: WILMINGTON, MA — New England Dental Group, a leading dental practice known for its commitment to high-quality oral care, has opened the Smigel Supersmile Dental Clinic at The New England Center for Children (NECC) school in…