Sentences with phrase «because people with autism»

Because people with autism are often unaware of social cues and peer expectations, clear, direct education is critical.

Some research suggests that because people with autism have a limited ability to decipher social cues, they may be more easily victimized or bullied than their typical peers.

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This is because a young child or a child with autism is still learning how the world works with respect to joint attention, back and forth interaction between people.

«Sexuality isn't taboo in the research community, but it's still kind of the last topic to the table — which isn't really fair because it could be key to understanding quality of life and emotional health in people with autism,» Gotham says.

That may be because a strong relationship depends on partners being both self - aware and aware of others, maintaining emotional stability and being able to learn from past experiences — three domains that prove challenging for some people with autism, Lerner says.

People with autism can struggle socially because they often find it hard to interpret facial expressions.

«I think that part of the reason Homo sapiens were so successful is because they were willing to include people with different minds in their society — people with autism or schizophrenia, for example.»

Some individuals with autism may injure themselves repetitively — for example, pulling their hair or banging their heads — because they're less sensitive to pain than other people.

• Living Arrangements have a range of outcomes because some, but not all, people on the autism spectrum will eventually live independently as adults with or without some degree of support.

People with autism may not be influenced in the same way because they are less able to deduce the opinions of the observer.

Some scientists have maintained that this is because people with a psychotic condition are sometimes wrongly diagnosed as also having autism.

The other explanation holds that children with autism look less at other people's eyes because the social cues from the eyes are not perceived as particularly meaningful or important.

It could explain why people with autism have restricted interests — because they find only very selective things rewarding — and it could explain the differences in language acquisition — because the neural circuitry involved in reward learning is the same circuitry that mediates both language learning and production,» says Abel, who also is the Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience and UI professor of molecular physiology and biophysics.

Because their focusing skills make them uniquely suited for certain tasks in the security industry, May Institute and its National Autism Center (NAC) will collaborate with Work, Inc., one of New England's leading agencies in providing employment for people with disabilities, to develop a program to identify and train adults with ASD to work in this field.

When I first started writing about autism, I thought that I had to describe myself in terms of function, because I had to acknowledge that I faced fewer challenges than people with more severe issues.

Because children with autism are perhaps the most sensitive and need the most nutrition, the principles that apply to them, apply to virtually everyone who wants to become healthy and heal including: healthy people like pregnant women and children, preconception women wanting to «stack the deck» in their favor, and children with developmental delays and digestive disorders.

People with autism often «struggle to make sense of social signals in real time» but because this meeting was so raw and uninhibited, Reynolds could make sense of her person right away.

I assure you, people with autism don't light your beds on fire because they have autism.