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 this delay? How do we know what the problem is? Where do we go to determine? How extensively is he affected? What do we […]

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 Cambridge. Below you will find all the information about what this study entails and how you can participate. This project has received ethical approval […]

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 us investigate an important area which has been neglected for a long time: the cognitive and neuroimaging characteristics of females with autism spectrum conditions […]

“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 honor roll on her very first report card ever.” Much to my delight, she loves to play drums and keyboards and has found a […]

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 social skills and fitting into the world. The book was written by Mark Haddon, a non-autistic man who used to work with autistic people. […]

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, advocacy, especially self-advocacy is a very good thing and is highly encouraged within the disability community that I have encountered. Let’s start with the […]