Answers, Autism, and Acceptance
She felt different from other people for as long as she could remember. After years of wrong diagnosis, and failed treatments which never felt right, Lori began to feel like her …
Court Sanctioned Child Abuse: Taking a Look at the Ugly Truth [VIDEOS] Included
Not only do I have personal connections to others who have suffered this kind of tragedy, but I have become increasingly aware of these issues since the Autism Women’s Network Forum went online …
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Missing 3-Year Old Found Dead of Apparent Accidental Drowning
(Osage, AR) — The search for 3-year old Aiden Bell ended in tragedy when his lifeless body was found shortly after 1pm on Tuesday afternoon less than a mile from his …
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Autism Women’s Network E-Mentoring
Autism Women’s Network [AWN] has been working hard behind the scenes to put together a program that will enable women on the autism spectrum to support each other through a peer mentor program …
Catch 22: Society and Acceptance, but Your Child is More Than Autism
Article originally posted at: Raising Asperger’s Kids There is a wonderful blogger I follow, Mae, who writes, Autism Is Not the Boss. She has written an interesting post ASD terminology: ‘autistic’ vs ‘individual …
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The Proposed DSM-V Changes: Is it a Step in the Right Direction?
Lately, the online communities have been talking about the recently released proposed revisions for the the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version 5 (DSM-V). The proposed revisions embody quite …
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Finding Answers
The population of children with developmental delaysis growing at an epidemic rate. Parents and teachers are facing many unknowns: Is this child affected by a developmental delay? If so, what is …
The ARC Mental Well-Being and Social Cognition Project
Please consider participating in our research study about people’s personal characteristics, mental well-being, and social perception and judgements. This study is conducted at the Autism Research Centre at the University of …
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Cambridge Female Autism Imaging Multicentre Study
We are looking for adult female volunteers aged 18 to 45 with a confirmed diagnosis of high functioning autism or Asperger syndrome to participate in this project, in order to help …
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Caroline Sings
“Caroline? She’s my little girl. Why, what about her? Oh, you want to know about her. Well, she’s six, she’s in first grade at a great public school, and just made …
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book about a 15 year old autistic boy named Christopher. He is a genius at math, but he has trouble with …
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Self Advocacy and Disability
In the autism community, the term self-advocate and advocacy gets used to describe people, sides and positions. But advocacy relates to disability community as a whole as well. And in general, …