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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…

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…

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…

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…

One of the more compelling aspects of surveying news coverage is looking at local news outlets and how they cover autism in their communities. This week we’re looking at one particularly remarkable piece of local news alongside two stories about the roles of photography and video games in capturing and treating autism. First up, in…

As we continue to take a close look each week at the ways autism manifests in our popular and local culture, we first take a look at the ever-fruitful intersection between autism and technology. Most parents would be quick to admit that if they could track every moment of their child to ensure his or…

As we do every week, in looking back at the past week in autism news, we found one overriding topic connecting the major autism-related news stories: genetics. Both of the stories that we’ll discuss below posits a new theory about how autism interacts with an individual’s genes. Whether it be symptoms that had been previously…

While there are many wonderful aspects about the holiday, from the lights to the weather to seeing and being with family and friends, let’s not kid ourselves. If you’re under the age of ten, then the holidays can often be about one thing: presents. However, if you have a child with autism, finding the perfect…

First up this week in our round-up of the top autism-related news stories making the rounds, the autism research community hit upon a dour note recently when a series of promising drugs that have cropped up over the past five years have repeatedly failed. Just five years ago, researchers thought that a treatment for autism…