Insights & The World Around Us
With the increasing amount of autism diagnoses and advocates around the world working together to increase autism awareness in their communities, it comes as little surprise that autism is starting to be better represented in the performing arts. While we have talked in detail in the past about autism-friendly movie screenings—the AMC movie theater chain…
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As any parent of a child with autism can attest, autism is an extremely expensive condition to care for, requiring regular visits to specialists alongside medical services, special education, and many other expenses. And as the number of cases of diagnosed autism continues to skyrocket, there has been an increased amount of legislation at the…
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Over the past several years, we’ve watched the rate at which autism is diagnosed raise exponentially from 1 in 150 children in 2000 to 1 in 68 as of 2014. However, a new number being batted around that was calculated by the government paints an even direr picture: according to the report, 1 in 45…
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When tracing the lines and currents of autism’s effect on culture and our efforts to better understand something seemingly incomprehensible through art, it’s easy for one to find him or herself heading in multiple different directions at once. For instance, while there is no obvious throughline drawing together this week’s three stories, each one speaks…
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As you might expect, we tend to have a particular interest in any news relating to autism and education. After all, our daily work is centered on better understanding of how children with autism learn and how we can alter our curriculum to better serve our students. We mention that because in this week’s research…
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For decades, doctors have long believed that diet played an important role in curbing the symptoms of autism and might even help to decrease the severity of the symptoms in some individuals. As such, doctors have focused on putting children with autism on special diets that would reduce their digestive symptoms, such as casein-free and…
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Over the past year, the discussion on autism has tended to focus on its rapid increase in diagnoses, with the popular statistic of 1 in every 68 children being diagnosed with autism recently receiving an update, going up to 1 in 42 boys. While many experts have been quick to point out that this increase…
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Looking back at the week in autism-related research, two different studies popped up that look at two separate problems in the existing autism diagnosis process while a team of scientists is looking to see if a search engine can help them to better understand autism. First up, a new report from the Center for Health…
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When it comes to the staples of childhood, Sesame Street and video games are regularly favorites of most children’s activities. In the past week, both platforms have made exciting announcements that point to a greater awareness about autism in our culture. In addition, this was also an exciting week for autism in television, with two…
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As we like to do here, especially when there’s a surplus of autism-related news floating around the internet, is to collect it altogether right here and highlight some of the more interesting pieces of news. First off, in an announcement that feels perfectly timed following our look at the autism app, Autism & Beyond, a…
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