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RECIPES THAT WORK: Awesome Despite Autism

November 2, 2016
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Do you love sandwiches? At the Autism Academy, we love them and at a restaurant located in Gilbert, AZ, people are loving them too. The Autism Academy is a school for children with autism and similarly to the Autism Academy, this restaurant encourages people with autism to go above and beyond. Both the Autism Academy…

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TURNING HELP INTO HOPE: Autism Twists and Turns

October 26, 2016
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The Autism Academy a school for children with autism, located in Gilbert, AZ, allows students to excel at education by giving them support. The upward journey from adolescence to adulthood is crammed with unexpected twists and turns. Parents Most parents feel a sense of anxiety, uncertainty, and frustration about helping their children with autism transition.…

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Understanding Different Behaviors: Stages of Stigmatism, Shame, Embarrassment, and Denial

October 19, 2016
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By Anthony KaDarrell Thigpen Email: Anthony_Thigpen@aol.com The Autism Academy a school for children with autism located in Gilbert, AZ, wants to share Shawn Davis’ story. Shawn Davis is an experienced principal that was clueless concerning her own child’s struggle with autism for 10 years. Despite earning a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Augusta State…

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How to Prepare Your Child for the School Year

October 12, 2016
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School is starting back up again soon, so we’re going to focus solely on how nerve-wrecking going back to school for any a child with autism and their family can be. Luckily at Autism Academy, we are very accomplished with teaching autistic children and knowing the proper teaching techniques for children with autism. We are…

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Autism and Genetics: Tracing the Pathways Between Genes and the Brain

October 5, 2016
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While we try to dedicate this space to keeping track of the most significant advancements in autism research, often it can seem like an endless parade of potential answers. After all, as we’ve discussed at length, scientists remain divided along three areas of focus as it relates to the cause of autism, choosing to focus…

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Autism and Genetics: SPARK, MSSNG, and TBR1

September 28, 2016
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At Autism Academy, a school for children with autism, the focus is on the most current research in this field. As any person who follows autism-related research, there must be awareness of the genetic analysis that has emerged. Alongside neural research and the studies on environmental factors, the facts that are known about autism have…

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Autism and the Theatre: The Case of The Curious Incident

September 21, 2016
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While theatre fans tend to make it a point to see as many musicals and theatre performances as they can throughout the year, the end of the year is when it seems that the rest of us catch the bug as well. After all, whether you live in New York and get to see The…

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Essential Oils and Autism: Treating Autism with Only a Drop

Essential Oils and Autism: Treating Autism with Only a Drop

September 14, 2016
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While there is an increasing number of essential oils aimed at actually improving mental and physical health — thieves oil, for example, is an antimicrobial, antiviral, antifungal, and anti-parasitic that can be placed in a diffuser, helping individuals who are sick with the flu — perhaps one of the most interesting developments has been an…

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Scanning the Future: Autism and Brain Scans

September 7, 2016
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As many parents will surely agree, one of the most challenging aspects of having a child with autism is that period where they begin exhibiting certain symptoms that might indicate some degree of autistic behavior and yet the parents are unable to have it conclusively diagnosed. After all, when diagnosing any psychiatric disorder in a…

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Autism in the Workplace

August 31, 2016
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Part of the goal in providing children with autism the best possible education is to help prepare them to live as comfortable and normal of a life as possible. While the concept of “normal” is always going to be a tricky one, especially for a young adult dealing with autism, it can generally be agreed…

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