What’sa Good Autism Education?
A recent article in Forbes magazine focuses on Jacob’s Ladder Center, a “neurodevelopmental learning center” in Roswell, Georgia. Reading about this center, I’ve wondered what is different about its approach, and what might be the main ...
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Learning What it Means to Have Autism
Being that this Saturday is the Beyond the Limits Walk for Autism, I am focusing alot of the attention on my blog on learning about autism. Trying to let people know what it means to have autism, what it is all about. ...
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Special preschool for children with Autism
Many of the children aren't talking when they arrive at school. The earlier they learn to speak — rather than use behaviors to convey what they want — the better, says Angela Telfer, the principal of the school.
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Myths & Misconceptions About Autism
Asperger's syndrome (AS) is a type of high functioning autistic spectrum disorder in which there is no clinically significant delay in language and an IQ of at least average (often higher). Although people with AS learn to speak at or ...
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Autism Awareness - Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by ...
Firstly, join a good autism forum and learn from the experience of others, you probably have more options available to you than you think. Don't be afraid to think creatively. If it hasn't been done before, but you know it's the best ...
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Testing Infants For Future Language Problems
“Our hope now is that we will be able to gently guide the brains of infants who are at the highest risk for language learning impairments to be more efficient processors so they can avoid the difficulties that result from struggling ...
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Autism Awareness - Kites rise highest agianst the wind, not with it
I tried to phone the school and speak to someone to come up with some solution to the problems that Ashleigh was experiencing, but my phone calls were ignored; so, Eric and I went together to the school and refused to move from ...
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Newest Autism Testimonials
Megan is 13 years old and was diagnosed with Autism at the age of 2.5. Megan didn’t speak. She wanted to be left alone in her own world. I tried everything. Megan started having seizures 6 months ago and was placed on antiepileptic ...
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Learning to speak up
Nothing came of that trip to help us medically but I learnt that I had to ask for help from then on as our trip through life was not going to be a pleasant one and to make it easier I needed to speak up. I wasn’t used to pushing myself ...
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Don't Cure or Try to 'fix' Autism ...
The autistic activists say they want help, too, but would be far better off learning to use their autistic strengths to cope with their autistic impairments rather than pretending that either can be removed. ...
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