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…

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…

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…

In looking at technology in terms of how we arrange and build spaces, speakers Cathy Lord and Jacques Black gave a recent talk at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference entitled “Healthy Environments for Autism” in which they discussed how the increase in the number of cases of autism is necessitating a need for us…

One theme that often comes up in our weekly reporting is the tension between the bountiful amount of research, thinkpieces, and community activism working to increase awareness about autism in children and the lack of support structures in place for adults with autism. After all, the vast majority of autism research is focused on children…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Last week, we looked at a couple of ways families and local communities have been using the holiday season to raise awareness about autism and to use the spirit of the season to encourage recognition of those with autism and the challenges they face. This week sees something of a sequel to that article since…