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"The battery’s dead": Burnout looks different in autistic adults

Beth Winegarner

Tyla Grant, 24, holds down a full-time advertising job, is trying to get a nonprofit off the ground and creates regular content for her podcast, YouTube channel and Instagram. Occasionally, she winds up so fried she can’t speak or get out of bed for days. Ms. Grant is also autistic. While most people undergo periods of burnout — physical, cognitive and emotional depletion caused by intense, prolonged stress — autistic people, at some point in their lives, experience it on a whole different level. A ..

Teaching the ABC's of crucial social skills

Emma Brown

The middle school years, when nothing seems more important or more impossible than fitting in, are rough for nearly everyone. But they are particularly brutal for preteens such as Will Gilbertsen, whose mild autism makes him stand out. Less than two months ..

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How to get early intervention autism therapy for your child

USN

The good news is that it looks like very early intervention programs for children with autism really do help. The bad news is that services can be hard to find, and expensive. Toddlers who participated in a study testing the Early Start Denver model for ear ..

Autistic kids do better with "trained" parents

New Haven Register

Giving parents of autistic children specialized training helps children with severe behavior problems better than medication alone, according to a Yale professor. “The conclusion is that for children with pervasive developmental disorders ... (they) will ..

Study: mothers of children with autism higher stress and other special needs

Advance

Researchers at the University of Washington Autism Center asked mothers about their experiences and found that moms of children with autism had higher levels of parenting-related stress and psychological distress than mothers of children with developmental del ..

Science hijacked to support alternative autism therapies

Chicago Tribune

Dr. Carlos Pardo was trying to head off trouble. The Johns Hopkins neurologist and his colleagues had autopsied the brains of people with autism who died in accidents and found evidence of neuroinflammation. This rare look inside the autistic brain had the ..

Parent training boosts medication effect for autism

LA Times

Life with a child who has a pervasive developmental disorder such as autism or Asperger's syndrome is often a storm of tantrums, irritability, impulsive behavior and obstinacy — a challenge that has child psychiatrists casting about for ways to help the stre ..

Study finds children with autism show specific handwriting impairments

Dr. Amy Bastian

Children with autism may have lower quality handwriting and trouble forming letters compared with children without autism, according to a study published in the November 10 print issue of the journal Neurology. The study included 28 children aged 8 to 13 ye ..

Survey: 90 percent of autistic children bullied

Boston Herald

A shocking new online survey has found that nearly 90 percent of autistic children in the Bay State have been targeted by bullying so violent and ruthless that a state lawmaker says teachers and school systems must be held accountable. The survey conducted ..

Research published: The Transporters, help autistic children recognize emotions

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The Transporters DVD is the result of a collaboration between Professor Simon Baron-Cohen at Cambridge University’s Autism Research Center, the UK National Autistic Society and the UK Government. A recent study entitled, Enhancing Emotion Recognition in C ..

Research published: The Transporters, help autistic children recognize emotions

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The Transporters DVD is the result of a collaboration between Professor Simon Baron-Cohen at Cambridge University’s Autism Research Center, the UK National Autistic Society and the UK Government. A recent study entitled, Enhancing Emotion Recognition in C ..

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