Insights & The World Around Us

This week in our round-up of autism in popular and mainstream culture, we take a look an anti-bullying musical aimed at youth with autism, a mother-and-son team working to make hospital visits less stressful, and a local ball hockey league that is serving as outreach to a small community’s young population with autism.   First…

With the Internet more prevalent than ever and smart phones more ubiquitous than desktop computers, more of those special moments in our lives are being captured than ever before. This week we take a look at one of those special moments while profiling a Jersey teen who raised over $10k for autism, cover Australia’s “agile”…

With Autism Awareness Month entering its final week of 2016, the news wire is replete with countless stories of children with autism educating others about the realities of living with autism and we highlight three especially moving letters and speeches. Elsewhere, we take a look at the Atlanta International Airport, which is taking unprecedented steps…

Following a similar lead as our weekly news round-up, in celebration of Autism Awareness Month, we are taking a look throughout the month at some of the smaller, less newsworthy stories that are just as important and affecting as the news on Page One. This week, we take a look into the world of dating…

First up in our weekly news roundup, a story that stands in direct opposition to one we ran a few weeks back: contrary to a recent report citing increased risk of cancer amongst those with autism, a new study is claiming that individuals diagnosed with autism are 66% less likely to get cancer in their…

This week we’re looking at three new studies that go a long way towards adding much more nuance to our understanding of how children and individuals with autism learn new words and process optimism. Furthermore, we look at a remarkable new study that has developed mice without an autism-related genetic aberration present. First up, a…