Running the session was Kate Movius, founder of the consultancy Autism Interaction Solutions. She paired the sensory experiments with practical tools deputies can actually carry on patrol. Her message ...
RIDGEWOOD, New Jersey (WABC) -- Police officers know plenty about training for certain situations, and now a police department in New Jersey is learning a new playbook when encountering individuals ...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Jim Elliott—a long-time reader contributor to Notes and one of the core ...
Facilitated communication is a form of alternative communication developed to help individuals with severe autism or other individuals who cannot express their thoughts and feelings vocally.
Autism spectrum disorders are associated with difficulties in social communication, long attributed to individual socio‐cognitive deficits. As a consequence of this perspective, stigma and pressure to ...
Autism is clinically defined by impairments in social communication, leading to assumptions that individuals with autism are less effective communicators. But a new study challenges this notion. The ...
Communicating can be a challenge for certain individuals with autism. In “Communication Innovations for Individuals with Autism,” Howard C. Shane, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, associate professor at Harvard ...