Life on the Autism Spectrum
A new book, Life on the Autism Spectrum: A guide for girls and women by Karen McKibbin, appears to nail the female ASD experience. This book is filled with clinical…
A new book, Life on the Autism Spectrum: A guide for girls and women by Karen McKibbin, appears to nail the female ASD experience. This book is filled with clinical…
Check this out! Google Glass is being used in clinical trials at Stanford, helping individuals with autism improve their ability to read facial expressions. The clinical studies ask participants to…
Bodies need exercise, particularly bodies with Autism and Asperger’s. For many parents raising a child on the spectrum, your first concern is perhaps not exercise (I get that!), but maybe…
SPARK Autism (Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge) is collecting DNA samples from families with Autism to better understand the genetic contributions of Autism. Happily, JFK Partners in Denver…
The Spark Program is a curriculum designed to teach business and entrepreneurial skills to individuals with developmental disabilities. (In fact, you MUST have a developmental disability to access the program.) …
The Economist ran two articles about ASD this week and ASD captured the cover! The first article is titled Beautiful minds, wasted: How not to squander the potential of autistic…
I’m not a fan of celebrities; I don’t really think they are “just like the rest of us.” Shonda Schilling’s book might actually change my mind. Ends up Shonda and…
I frequently hear clients talking about life events that somehow, by the end of the discussion, have become life and death, make it or break it moments. For example, a…