Sentences with phrase «as people with autism»

«That's not the same as experiencing little or no feeling upon seeing someone else in pain, as some people with autism do.»

Such symptoms are common in people who have fragile X syndrome, as well as people with autism.

They say that auties, as some people with autism call themselves, don't merely think differently: in certain ways they think better.

Jim Rehg of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who has worked on the SenseGlass project, says those who have trouble recognising or expressing their emotions, such as people with autism, might benefit by being able to use the device's measurements to communicate how they are feeling to others.

«There is so much going on behind the scenes but at the forefront of people's minds is creating a home and an atmosphere where someone can be treated as an individual, not as a person with autism, and that is wonderful to see and to be a part of.»

She labels herself first, as a scientist and college professor, and second, as a person with autism.

Many dogs will react aggressively to someone who walks with a limp or other some other disability, such as a person with autism.

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Independent Home and Health Services provides supported and independent living services and support to persons with developmental delays, physical challenges, mental disorders, as well persons on the Autism Spectrum.

Become familiar with the classic symptoms of autism, such as social issues including not looking at people or connecting, sensory issues like being overly sensitive to tactile things, sounds or tastes, repetitive actions like rubbing things in their hands or rocking, or loss of developmental skills.

The coalition, known as bFair2DirectCare, was disappointed in January when Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 152 billion spending plan did not include the funding, which aims to provide adjusted salaries for those who provide services to the developmentally disabled, including people with autism, serious brain injury, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome.

«But people with autism are often sensitive to sensory input and as a result they can struggle to maintain concentration in interviews.»

On a further positive note, related research shows that there are simple and effective strategies that can enhance the evidence that people with autism give and improve their credibility as witnesses.

Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara is a Democrat from the 111th district: «As an advocate for people with disabilities and as a father of a son with autism, I know that the long - term cost for care can be quite significanAs an advocate for people with disabilities and as a father of a son with autism, I know that the long - term cost for care can be quite significanas a father of a son with autism, I know that the long - term cost for care can be quite significant.

Many people with autism spectrum disorder also have an enhanced sensitivity to stimuli such as sounds or touch, and there's mounting evidence that abnormal brain connections — more in some regions, fewer in others — might play a significant role.

We think of people with autism as having a deficit in cognitive processing — but their distractibility could also result from having enhanced perceptual capabilities

That can beget a sense of isolation: Depression and anxiety are more than three times as common in adults with autism as in people without the condition.

For example, a person with autism who is viewing a movie of people in a room will spend a relatively large amount of time looking at non-social objects — such as chairs — and is more likely to look at the mouths or bodies of the characters than their eyes.

«While it was the same rate as people with other types of disabilities who used the program, the wages, hours worked and range of job types for people with autism were low — placing them at risk for poverty.»

In the works are computerized conversation coaches that can improve speech and communication skills among people with developmental conditions such as autism and mediate business meetings in ways that encourage everyone to participate in decision making.

The largest of its kind, the study examined genetic data in 100,000 individuals including 40,000 people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and also found that some of the genes identified as increasing risk for schizophrenia have previously been associated with other neurodevelopmental disorders, including intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders.

Some of the artworks relate to the frustration the artists experience in trying to interact with others, as many people with autism have difficulty reading other people's facial and emotional cues.

Christianson said his team uses neuroscience techniques «to investigate the biological basis for social cognition with the hope that we can better understand and treat people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition such as autism or schizophrenia.»

Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.

• 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.

If part of the reason for the discomfort is that it is impossible to pin down the emotional state of such robots, then it is possible that people with autism might not experience as much discomfort.

«In light of these and other deeply worrying findings, we are urging more people to join our new autism research network, Discover, that will link the local autistic community with top UK research centres such as Coventry University.

«As technologies become more available in schools and homes, we have to keep abreast of the advantages they can have for people with autism,» she said.

About 10 to 15 percent of people with autism have a disorder linked to a known single - gene mutation, such as fragile X syndrome, or chromosomal alterations.

While the condition varies in severity, about three - quarters of people with autism are classed, in the official language of psychiatrists, as mentally retarded.

The same change is seen in patients with neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, Down's syndrome, and autism, and in people with poor impulse control.

(Most people with autism are diagnosed as children.)

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.

Dawson's field of research is the cognitive abilities of people with autism — people such as herself.

When collaborators blind to the participants» diagnoses evaluated the videos, they consistently ranked people with autism as less socially adept than those with schizophrenia.

He served as her postdoctoral mentor and, like Foss - Feig, says autism researchers can learn a lot by studying people with psychosis.

Wandering can act as a substitute form of communication for people with autism who can not speak and might deal with overwhelming situations by walking away.

And the new findings examine basic deficits unclouded by social tendencies, such as the aversion many people with autism spectrum disorder have to looking at faces.

This technique has been shown to improve symptoms in people with brain disorders such as autism and depression.

They were less likely to school and swim along with other tadpoles (a tadpole proxy for socialization, which is impaired in autism); they weren't as good at avoiding contact with animated images projected on to the bottom of their petri dishes; they didn't habituate to startling noises (another analog to autism in people); and induced seizures were more frequent and shorter than in normal tadpoles.

Estimates of the proportion of people with severe learning disabilities who harm themselves in some way range from one in eight to one in three in those whose learning disability is combined with autism and a sensory disability such as loss of sight or hearing.

One of the challenges individuals with autism face is not having a large enough network of people who can provide advice about everyday situations, such as home upkeep, financial planning or relationships.

So it stands to reason that as time goes on, more people with Asperger's or autism will look, to all the world, as if they are «cured» without actually being so.

«The results of our much larger study suggest caution should be exercised in recommending nasal oxytocin as a general treatment for young people with autism.»

They also speculated that the biomarker could be used as a tool in the clinical diagnosis of people with autism spectrum disorder.

As well, although most of the discussion has focused on persons with difficult - to - treat depression, legalizing assisted dying for psychiatric disorders would mean that persons with schizophrenia, autism, eating disorders, PTSD, personality disorders, and even prolonged grief would be eligible to receive assisted dying.

FRIDAY, March 30, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Neurons in a brain area involved with social and emotional behavior normally increase as children become adults, but this does not occur in people with autism, new research contends.

«Here this has been modelled in mice, and there is a big scientific leap to consider this as a treatment to help people with autism.

Autistic people and carers of children with autism should not consider using the drug other than for its approved use as a cancer treatment.»

People with [autism] want to be accepted as part of the team.»