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Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEiS), which owns software company Specialisterne, has become a force in autism advocacy. Previously known for recruiting workers with autism, Specialisterne has been awarded a humongous grant of £407,036, or the American equivalent of approximately $616,492 by the BIG Lottery Fund to expand its company program to Glasgow in the [...]
A bio-pharmaceutical company, Cellceutix, has released details about a study that could be a milestone in the fight for a cure along the autism spectrum.
In the study, Dr. Krishna Menon compared two groups of rats that were both injected with a serum that induces autismlike symptoms, and one group was injected with the compound KM-391.
According [...]
As if autism weren’t hard enough to identify, a U.K. study has recently discovered that children with autism were being punished and excluded for their aggressive behaviors prior to diagnosis. Most of the children were thought to have had rude behavior, when they really were afflicted with autism. As a result almost 4,000 school children [...]
The University of Utah’s department of Family and Consumer Studies is utilizing a complex architecture computer program to help treat children with autism.
The program, originally constructed by two Colorado software designers in 2000, is called SketchUp and features cutting-edge 3D modeling that is found to stimulate autistic children’s creativity and enhance their learning abilities. SketchUp [...]
Today, The American Psychiatric Association has released a draft of its fifth handbook that discusses the official definitions and data of mental disorders. The official title of this handbook is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and is referred to as DSM-V, the ‘V’ of which stands for the fifth Roman numeral.
Particularly, [...]
By James W. Partington, Ph.D., BCBA-D
Parents of children with a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), often feel frustrated and disappointed by their child’s inability to develop friendships and participate in daily interactions that most families take for granted, such as discussing the day’s events, and listening to their child interact with siblings or [...]
by Dr. Ernst VanBergeijk
Deciding what to do after high school is a daunting task for any young person, but for students on the autism spectrum, the thought can be paralyzing. Additional questions need to be asked and answered to insure a goodness of fit between the student’s strengths, goals, and weaknesses and a post secondary [...]
By Eric Chessen, M.S.
I have this magnet on my car that advertises my company, Beyond Boundaries Fitness. The magnet reads “Fitness Builds Futures.” I think about that statement a lot. I do not have it on there because it is a good marketing gimmick. I do not have it on there because it is catchy, [...]
