Sensory Processing Disorder and Autism
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), formerly known as Sensory Integration Dysfunction, is a neurological disorder causing difficulties with taking in, processing and responding to sensory information about the environment and from within an…
NonPareil Provides Tech Training for Adults with Autism
Parents of children with autism often experience life as a matter of making it through each day. But no matter where we are in our journey with our child's autism, we wonder what lies ahead for them as adults. Reports of children aging…
YouTube Video from Autism Father Going Viral
Known for being fierce advocates, parents of children with autism have done an excellent job in recent years at tapping into social media to make their voices heard. And as the prominence and influence of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube…
Vaccines, Autism and the Squelching of the Non-Believers
A couple of interesting news reports on vaccines and autism were recently juxtaposed.
The Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy (EBCALA) has conducted extensive research on the vaccine compensation program as it relates to…
Cheerleading Squad Benefits Individuals with Autism
Disability Scoop brings an uplifting story of a teenager named Sarah Cronk of Bettendorf, Iowa, who started the nation's first school-based cheerleading squad including students both with and without disabilities. Sarah was inspired to do…
Study Finds Ten Percent of State Hospital Patients Have Autism
The number of diagnosed cases of autism is exploding. Children with autism will grow into adults and society is nowhere near ready to support them. In order to prepare for that eventuality, current adults on the autism spectrum need to be…
New Batman Comic Features Autism
My sons with autism have always loved comics. Now teenagers, they still gravitate towards graphic novels. Having a story broken down into small illustrated segments is inherently appealing to individuals with autism.
A comic book writer…
Trains and Autism
Many children with autism have a well-documented interest in trains, enthralled by their motion and predictable patterns. They tend to prefer trains to planes because of their back-and-forth motion, in contrast to the variability of flight…
Tragic Autism Police Encounter Demands Attention
A tragic situation we previously reported on involving a police encounter with a teen on the autism spectrum deserves immediate attention. On the morning of May 24, 2010, 19 year-old Reginald “Neli” Latson sat in the grass outside the…
Improvisation for Autism
One thing I've learned over the last fifteen years of raising my twins with autism is the power of being oblique.
After one son bombed out of a series of social skills classes, I felt like I may as well make a little pile of money and…