Insights & The World Around Us
As we continue through the holidays of December on our way to the New Year, this week we’re going to take a look a trio of news stories involving the dangers of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), an initiative to build a Yelp-like website for families with members with autism, and the increase of early diagnoses.…
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This week two different research teams made headway in their efforts to track the lives of children with autism in addition to developing a new questionnaire to help adults with autism. In addition, a new study has identified young mothers as being at a higher risk for having a child with autism. First up, the…
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When we report on genetic research related to autism, it can be easy to get overwhelmed quickly. After all, there are thousands of potential genes that could be associated or have something to do with autism at some level. More so, it seems that every few weeks there’s a new study reporting on new genes,…
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Going through a monstrous amount of stress is a given when going to the Emergency Room, from the long lines to nurses and doctors who are overwhelmed to the patients themselves, the ER is a perfect recipe for sensory overload for children with autism. In fact, the feeling of stress that comes with going to…
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If you do not live in Canada or some of the more chilly and lake-surrounded areas of the Midwest, you might have never even heard of Broomball. The sport, which is particularly popular in Canada, does not exactly demand enraptured viewing, with the majority of the action involving a “pitcher” tossing a heavy and metallic…
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While it might not always have its own section in your local Barnes & Noble, autism as a subject of study and advice has kept hundreds of books on the subject in publication for decades. We’ve taken a close look at a couple of the more scholarly tracts here—including the work of Temple Grandin and…
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In this week’s autism news round-up, we scour the web to find the newest and most exciting autism-related news stories, including autism’s relationship with gender variance, the role of B12 in autism and schizophrenia, and how a new donation to the University of Northern Texas will help that area’s citizens with autism to gain access…
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In this week’s look at autism in popular and mainstream culture, we look at a unique new look at how to care for kids wth autism, an event in Ohio that seeks to harness the soft power of acoustic guitars in the name of autism, and a restaurant in England who recently made quite a…
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In taking our weekly surveys of autism and culture, we regularly see the influence of autism on film, art, and technology. This week, we’re looking at two of these areas in particular—film and technology—to highlight a successful documentary that showed at Sundance this year as well as a new autism-focused app designed by a young…
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In this week’s round-up of autism-related news stories, we take a look at what it means to design a building with autism in mind, a young woman setting a course for herself in autism education, and a new study identifying the differences in autism in girls. First up, New York-Presbyterian Hospital is embarking on creating…
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