Category: Autism News

In this week’s PSA episode, we dive into the inspiring collaboration between Easterseals SoCal and Angels Stadium with Alyssa Kavner, VP of Clinical Training and Quality at Easterseals. Explore how this partnership is revolutionizing the game-day experience, creating a more sensory-friendly environment that ensures baseball, America’s favorite pastime, becomes a more inclusive and accessible event…

NOSI noise: The new Notice of Special Interest has set off a flurry of activity, researchers say. Jasmin Merdan / Getty Images In January, Kristina Johnson participated in a two-day workshop on promoting communication in minimally verbal and nonspeaking autistic people, hosted by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a member…

Autism and haircuts often do not mesh well together. As an autistic mother raising two children, each on opposite ends of the autism spectrum, I have gained experience in understanding and addressing the diverse struggles autism can bring. My oldest son, Charlie, 10, has been diagnosed with Level 3, severe autism, while my younger son,…

America’s current Amish population is around 400,000 and rising. Increasingly more people are adopting the Amish way of growing clean food and herbs and avoiding Big Pharma poisons like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine schedule for children. The states with the highest concentration of Amish residents are Pennsylvania with around 90,000…

Do you find yourself struggling to fit into the world around you and all the unwanted stimulation it provides? Are you longing for a way to feel at peace and at ease in a way that allows you to be yourself in your own personal way? Being on the spectrum is one of those things…

A South Florida nonprofit is working to get young adults with autism workforce-ready through a new pilot program called Summer of Success. The program began Monday and is set to wrap up on July 21 with a job expo for the students. “My son is 26, and basically, he is at home — like a…

Emotional regulation is a commonly acknowledged challenge for many autistic individuals, with the majority (67 to 79 percent) of children on the spectrum experiencing comorbid symptoms of anxiety and many (42 to 54 percent) depression (Mayes et al., 2010). Autistic individuals’ experience of emotional regulation is impacted by numerous variables. Some variables relate to autistic…

The concept of vacationing has always been a challenge for our family. As a single parent, it’s a lot of planning and prep for one person and at times can be very overwhelming. I decided over the years to do what feels right. Not to hold back from making memories and experiencing new things with…

I don’t know if my son has anyone who considers him their friend, besides his cousin. If you ask Jesse who his best friend is, he says, “Lukas.” It’s not always mutual though. Although, it used to be. My son is autistic and eight years old. He is 18 months older than his cousin. When…

Your browser does not support the video tag. Pause Expanded possibilities: Expansion microscopy involving an objective lens typically used in electronics can image the entire mouse brain. By bloating brain samples and imaging them with a powerful microscope, researchers can reconstruct neurons across the entire mouse brain, according to a new preprint. The technique could…