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Addressing the Transition to Adulthood

In the past few years, Autism Speaks has responded in several ways to the challenge of addressing the transition to adulthood. These efforts include maintaining quality of life across in all of our research emphasis are…
Dealing with Loss

I received a call today from a friend of mine asking me a rather simple question for which I had no simple answer:
Gamesmanship

Remember the old saying, that the ends justify the means? Well that tends to resonate a lot with parents of children on the autism spectrum.
Why does autism coincide with mitochondrial problems?

There’s a lot of discussion among researchers these days about why so many people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have mitochondrial issues.
Religiosity and Autism

A review of Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Notpublished in Psychology Today reported a lack of ability of those with autism to believe in God. Researchers have suspected: “that religious belief and under…
Doing Christmas: Little Man Style

At long last I write a positive post… And I’m loving it The blog has been full of doom and gloom this past year! Ok there has been a happy post here and there… But only a small handful at the most.…
When the Government Lies

I just finished reading Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders which is a government report that claims there is little scientific evidence supporting current autism treatments for…
My Boy is Incredible!

So he did it!!! Yesterday was the big day, Little man was all set to take part in a new study for children with autism spectrum disorders & ADHD at Kings college London’s Neuroimaging Centre, Institute of Psy…
Harnessing Obsessions

From Dinosaur Timeline One aspect of autism that we all learn to live with is the fixation on one topic or idea. For CM1 when he was little his object of fascination was dinosaurs. In fact it even went so far that…
An Hour Of Autism

A week or so ago I had an appointment to go to the endodontist. You know, that friendly dentist guy that specializes in our all time favorite medical procedure: THE ROOT CANAL. My dentist referred me since I went to hi…