Category: Autism News

One Spectrum Academy student was restrained 99 times in one school year. Another was restrained or secluded at least 40 times over two years. They missed so many hours of learning that the school violated their right to a free and appropriate public education, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced this week.…

Psychiatrist Meng-Chuan Lai has observed the recent rollout of laws restricting gender-affirming medical care in the United States with concern, he says. Some legislators have justified these bills, at least in part, by pointing to his work: In 2020, Lai co-authored a study that found transgender and other gender-diverse people are three to six times…

It’s been a little while since I’ve opened up here. Honestly, it’s been a little while since I’ve written anything here at all. Sometimes I feel like it’s because I don’t have much left to say but other times it’s because I have too much to say and don’t know where to start. I guess…

‘I’m sorry I’m crying…this is so unlike me. This has just never happened before.’ Those were the words I said to a fellow mom today. I didn’t know her. I just knew it was her children on the raft that my son Cooper was swimming out too. It took me a second to catch my…

“We have a wide variety of seating, so students can choose how they learn.” This was a statement I wasn’t expecting to hear when I met my son’s teacher. I grew up when all the desks were the same, and students were expected to sit quietly and follow along with the teacher’s lesson.  But when…

As I pour boiling water onto little flakes of dried coffee, the sun begins to shyly glimmer on the horizon as it makes its daily journey. Flycatchers have just begun to skim over the lake in front of me and a soft breeze ruffles the tips of subalpine grasses, sending tickles up my neck. The…

ABA Centers of Florida recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the unveiling of its Florida flagship autism care center in Boca Raton. During the ceremony, guests received exclusive tours of the premises, allowing attendees to explore the cutting-edge facility and learn about its sensory-friendly designs, which cater to all levels of the autism spectrum. The play…

Temple Grandin spent her early life, as she says, “goofing off” until a science teacher made her brain light up. She was born with autism during the 1940s, when people didn’t understand it well. But Grandin has done a lot since those days of goofing off. She became a professor of animal science at Colorado…

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Two scientific research studies published today reveal that the Marcus Autism Center, a subsidiary of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, has developed the first “biomarker-based, eye-tracking diagnostic technology” now available to help diagnose autism. The tool, called EarliPoint Evaluation, is authorized for use in children between 16 and 30 months of age to aid in the diagnosis and…