Sentences with phrase «at persons with autism»

Not exact matches

Working in groups is «the most important thing,» says her teammate Adelina Corina Cozma, 15, whose computer - based communication system for people with autism went on to win several awards at the May event.

«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.»

Since then, I've heard the word tossed at people with Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, people with autism and myriad other cognitive and physical disorders.

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.

«I taught at Eastern Suffolk BOCES, working with people who have autism and behavioral issues,» he said.

«Some of the repetitive behaviors, inability to read social cues, and restricted interests copy many of the symptoms we see in people with autism,» said co-lead author Alexandra Bey, an M.D. / Ph.D. candidate at the Duke University School of Medicine.

A final concern is more philosophical: Not all people with autism desire to be more at ease socially.

Those results square with another recent study, presented at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in October 2012, showing that after a dose of oxytocin, men with autism were better able to understand difficult - to - read emotions conveyed in photographs showing only people's eyes.

The exciting new study by the psychologist Deborah Riby and Peter Hancock at Newcastle University uses cutting edge methods in eye tracking to investigate the unusual social preferences and behaviors in people with Williams syndrome and autism.

Currently an assistant professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, he has dedicated the last decade of his professional life to helping people with autism in their families.

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.

«We found that over half of the people with autism who used Vocational Rehabilitation services got jobs,» said Anne Roux, lead author of the report and research scientist in Life Course Outcomes at the institute.

«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.»

«Not only can people with autism socialize more under the effect of oxytocin, they can understand the behaviors of others and respond accordingly,» explains study co-author Angela Sirigu, director of research at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Bron, France.

In a study published earlier this year, Jiang and other collaborators at Duke described a mouse model of autism in which they deleted a prominent autism gene called SHANK3, which is mutated in 1 percent of people with the disorder.

In 2013, researchers showed that in some cases, people with autism are unusually good at perceiving motion, and this counterintuitive result is actually consistent with weak normalization in the visual system3.

«People with autism at greater risk of attempting suicide.»

To examine whether normalization is unusually weak in people with autism, we are looking at their perception of visual motion.

However, this is the first study to suggest those who have not been diagnosed with autism but had certain traits typical of autistic people were also more at risk of attempting suicide.

Nugent, a journalist at Time magazine, also delves into the correspondence between nerdiness and people with Asperger's syndrome (a form of autism characterized by difficulties in social interaction and by restricted interests and activities).

It's essential that people feel they are in a safe, comfortable setting with someone who can oversee the experience, says Alicia Danforth, a clinical psychologist at the Harbor — UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, who is involved in MAPS - sponsored trials studying MDMA's effects on social anxiety in adults with 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.

The people in the 22q duplication group, who at risk for autism, had the opposite pattern, with thinner gray matter and larger brain surface area.

While reduced eye contact is a well - known symptom of autism used in early screeners and diagnostic instruments, why children with autism look less at other people's eyes has not been known.

The research, published today in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, looked at people who may not have a diagnosis of autism but who have high levels of behaviours and thought processes typically associated with the condAutism and Developmental Disorders, looked at people who may not have a diagnosis of autism but who have high levels of behaviours and thought processes typically associated with the condautism but who have high levels of behaviours and thought processes typically associated with the condition.

In light of such success, Nancy Minshew, his colleague at the University of Pittsburgh, approached him with a question: Might it also benefit people with autism?

«Brain anatomy differs in people with 22q genetic risk for schizophrenia, autism: Deletions or duplications of DNA along 22nd chromosome hint at biological underpinnings of these disorders.»

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.

Last week at the 23rd International Conference on Subterranean Biology in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he demonstrated how drugs that help people with schizophrenia and autism similarly affect the fish.

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.

Mirella Dapretto, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, may have nailed down the source of some of autism's key symptoms, the social and emotional deficits that make it so difficult for autistic people to interact with others.

Research at King's College London has revealed subtle brain differences in adult males with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which may go some way towards explaining why symptoms persist into adulthood in some people with the disorder.

The reported incidence of gut maladies in people with autism varies wildly between published studies — from zero to more than 80 % — making it difficult to establish just how commonly the two conditions go together, says principal investigator Sarkis Mazmanian, a microbiologist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.

People with autism were kept on task at work with an iPod Touch featuring various checklist and prompting apps.

Baron - Cohen has already seen the benefits in his studies of people with Asperger's syndrome at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, UK.

Her research work focuses on the neurocognitive basis of autism spectrum conditions, with a particular interest in why people with autism find the social world so puzzling, yet often excel at detail - focussed tasks.

LA JOLLA, CA — People with Williams syndrome — known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers — process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders — characterized by social withdrawal and isolation — found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological StPeople with Williams syndrome — known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers — process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders — characterized by social withdrawal and isolation — found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Stpeople with autism spectrum disorders — characterized by social withdrawal and isolation — found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

People with decreased life satisfaction probably aren't working at a place that has a fully developed autism support program.

I worked at a college, so there's people there that I know who have children with autism or ADHD and are in the same spot where I was, years ago.

Rich Smalley, a counselor at the school, also helped with the program after reading about yoga's benefits for people with autism.

And Jon Wertheim reports on people with autism playing sports at all levels, including professionally.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2016, Episode 11: 60 MINUTES SPORTS investigates the resignation of Patty Crawford at Baylor University, profile of Boston Celtics» head coach Brad Stevens and his coaching philosophy, and how sports and strength conditioning are helping people with autism.

[Director] Gavin [O'Connor] and I went around and spent time with people who were at various places on the autism spectrum, and observed behavior and talked to them and engaged with them in everything from what their daily life is like to what type of movie they'd like to see about someone with autism.

Pupils at London's Highgate School took part in a one day coding challenge this year and used the micro: bit to help people with autism recognise other people's emotional states, as people with the condition can often struggle to read expressions.

Young people with a different sexual orientation or in the autism spectrum (Bottroff et al., 2005) are at particular risk.

Cabell is a medical center, with the largest inland port in the US, many gorgeous parks, warm - hearted resilient people, and a stellar autism program at Marshall University.

Of course, better detection and early intervention strategies have led to more intensive and focused assistance at an earlier age, but the digital tools available for the patient's support community — especially tablets such as the iPad that have literally hundreds of apps that can enable special needs users — have also meant greater educational access, more inclusion in social settings, and unheard of independence for people with autism.

She felt authentic to me - and even reminded me of one specific child in particular - but I don't think we should assume her through process is at all the same as other people with autism.

We also provide dogs for children with autism, people living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and are excited to launch a new pilot working with people living at home with dementia.

-- Neuroscientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a video game that allows people with autism to practice social interaction in virtual reality.