Category: Autism News

The writer was hosted. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is part thrill ride, part animal park and all fun, even for families with kids on the autism spectrum. Find out everything you need to know about visiting the theme park with kids, including which park ticket to buy, whether the all-day dining plan is a good…

Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): design, participant selection, and clinical characterization The present study was performed under the framework of the “European Autism Interventions—A Multicentre Study for Developing New Medications (EU-AIMS)” project. Funded by the European community, EU-AIMS was designed to identify ASD markers to enhance earlier and more accurate diagnosis and prognosis as well…

At first there were words, so many words. “Chrysanthemum!” was a favourite. He used to like saying that one. And “Dahlia” too—he liked that one so much he would repeat it: “Dahlia! Dahlia! Dahlia!” The five-year-old Donald Triplett had non-floral favourites as well. Sometimes, he sounded like an irate grammarian: “Semicolon, capital, slain, slain,” he…

A 13-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder was abandoned by his father at UCHealth Longs Peak emergency department for several weeks and received little to no help from state and county agencies, according to email correspondence obtained by the Times-Call. It isn’t clear if the 13-year-old boy is still staying at the hospital. Citing patient…

For any parent of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it’s essential to keep up with some of the fantastic research findings connected to ASD. Much of it is innovative, and almost all of it is informative. Autism research has come a long way from when those in the autistic community were shunned. But…

An investigation by  Lead researcher Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, a palliative care specialist and a member of Kingston University’s Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education, along with her team of researchers, analyzed documents related to 900 legal euthanasia cases released by the Dutch government’s euthanasia review committees. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands have…

Credit: Unsplash+ So, you’ve never been diagnosed with autism. But could autism-associated genes be affecting you in subtle ways? You might be surprised by what the brilliant minds from France’s Institut Pasteur have found. Autism Genes: Not Just for Autism Anymore In a riveting research paper, the team unpacks how genes linked with autism can…

Paper-tearing soothes this Wisconsin man with autism. It has also made him an artist Amy Schwabe   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel In the children’s book “Grant, the Eco-Friendly Artist,” a young child is hyperfocused on tearing paper. The book says that Grant “would draw, paint, and tear paper for hours and hours, over and over!” Combined…

Here is a book that may be of interest to you, whether or not you are autistic around different aspects of Buddhist practice. It includes a chapter from our very own Prajnanandi. It would be of particular use to those looking to articulate more about their autism and how it works with Buddhism, or those…