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Young adults everywhere have heard familiar sayings about their future. “You’re perfect just the way you are.” “You’ll be good at anything.” But these and other statements are not always true—and don’t need to be. As part of a newer generation, many young adults are not given the opportunity to grow individually, to recognize that […]

For most teens, becoming 18 years old is a life-marker that usually means so many things—opportunity, independence, and adventure. But if you are a young adult on the Autism spectrum, the age of 18 might not be much different from any of their other ages before. Two new studies insist that we are reaching a

For many families with children who have Autism, a new stage of life is about to emerge.  According to an article published in the New York Times, titled “A Generation of Autism, Coming of Age” in less than a decade, the children who were diagnosed with autism in the 1990’s will be moving into the

Imagine having a beautiful, bright-eyed child who is born with all 10 fingers and toes. This child babbles, learns to crawl, count to 10 and say their ABC’s. Then at about the age of two, this child stops talking, and stops making eye contact with anyone. For all of us that know and love someone

He’s speaking of his son, and many other parents will likely nod, understanding that communicating with their own children, especially teens, is not an easy task. But Ron’s son, Owen, isn’t like most other children. He’s autistic, but even that fails to convey the entire picture, as Owen’s autism is different than most” It’s regressive.

Raising an autistic child can be a challenge. Many people seem to believe that autism is something that develops over time, but new studies show that autism actually develops before birth, and in the early stages of infancy. So all you parents who have possibly blamed yourselves that your kid has some form of autism,

Dr. Drew Rubin

When parents first get their children diagnosed with autism, they are often devastated to learn that there is no real cure to this disorder. There are a number of behavioral therapies that are effective at increasing how well an individual with autism can function, but there is no simple cure. Because of this, many parents

As a holdover from the 40s and 50s when autism research came into its own, the condition was characterized by symptoms such as hallucinations and unconscious fantasy life in the minds of infants. Some controversies arose as researches struggled to resolve whether infant hallucinations could be confirmed. Essentially, autism research began by exploring childhood psychosis.

It’s always been plain enough to observe that children with autism may be more interested in objects or ‘things’ than they are in the presence or behavior of others. This lack of ‘joining’ behavior is one of the defining characteristics of autism. Most humans are naturally hardwired to gain pleasure from shared experiences and emotions.