Sentences with phrase «autistic people who»

The prototype proved popular with autistic people who were invited to test it.

It may be that Sean is part of the one - third of autistic people who overcome the most disabling symptoms of their disorder» an improvement that can not be attributed to any particular treatment.

I know of many autistic people who are not only selectively aware of their surroundings, but who show evidence of prescience that is unnerving.

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Your post is insulting to the millions of people who suffer from this and related debilitating diseases — next month why don't you make fun of diabetics and autistics, and further your descent into idiocy?

I think of how every Latino kid taunted by classmates, every soldier sent to war, every autistic kid who will lose his therapy when ACA is repealed, every black man shot by police is somebody else's baby boy, somebody else's most important person in the world.

Most people who write and talk about autism are reluctant simply to describe the odd behavior and mysterious qualities of autistic people.

People meeting an autistic person almost invariably feel that within the strange creature they see there is a hidden person who is intelligent, who can recognize in another what he conceals in himself.

Now, 2 years later at age 4, the autistic - like symptoms have faded to reveal an affectionate, social and vibrant child who is very connected to the world and people around her.

And finally there are our Autism Friendly sessions that welcome those on the autistic spectrum with their families or carers to a session with half the number of participants and lower music alongside people who understand and share the same issues and concerns.

This growing alliance of autistic individuals, their parents and researchers, all of whom have embraced the concept of neurodiversity, proposes that autism be regarded as a valuable part of humanity's genetic legacy and that society needs to accept and adapt to people who think differently.

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.

People who generated four or more unusual responses in the task were found to have higher levels of autistic traits.

«Early diagnosis is critical in helping people with autism get the support they need,» says Caroline Hattersley of The National Autistic Society in London, who stresses that specialists are still needed.

So says Ari Ne'eman, whose organisation places people with autism with employers who value their fascination with patterns and ability to spot errors (see «Rise of the autistic workforce «-RRB-.

Autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome are both neurodevelopmental disorders but their manifestations couldn't be more different: While autistic individuals live in a world where objects make much more sense than people do, people with Williams syndrome are social butterflies who bask in other people's attention.

In a study published today by Royal Society Open Science, the international research team revealed that people who show evidence of autistic traits are more likely to suppress coarse (as opposed to fine) visual information when they move their eyes rapidly from one part of the world to another than those without autistic traits.

Imagine what could be possible for autistic people and their families if, instead of offering a $ 100,000 prize to anyone who can prove that vaccines are safe, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Robert De Niro invested that money in services that could improve the quality of the lives that they think are so tragically altered by autism?

The only thing that all autistic people have in common is that we're all human beings who deserve to be treated like human beings.

Well - meaning but hurtful «awareness» - raising stunts, mostly staged by people who aren't autistic, rarely bring much attention to the actual concerns and needs of our community.

Surviving and thriving as our autistic selves is far more appealing — not to mention more practical — than chasing a magic pill that would fundamentally change who we are, forcing us into harmful treatments geared toward making us look more «normal,» or pursuing prenatal testing that could prevent the next generation of people like us from being born at all.

But I can't help sharing that you also almost perfectly describe my (large and growing) chronic patient community as well Dr. Brogan, which includes persons of all types usually with hypermobility (often diagnosed as fibromyalgia, and occasionally but rarely with Hypermobile Ehlers - Danlos Syndrome), depression, anxiety, mild autistic traits (or related to people on the spectrum), driven, Type A (for adrenergic, smile), perfectionistic, high achieving, driven, artistic, and creative who eventually succumb to secondary aotuimmune disease and all manner of issues from chronic inflammation.

That's when Diane Sherman, who teaches autistic children, heard Pepperberg, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Media Lab, describe how she'd trained Alex: First, the bird watches a trainer give instructions to another person, who models correct and incorrect behavior; then Alex gets a chance to mimic the behavior.

And I want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to make the public and those who provide care and education are not just aware of the needs of autistic people, but their successes and contributions as well.»

Temple Grandin says this about empathy: «Normal people... don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload.

This powerpoint presentation provides a list of famous people who are thought to be autistic.

«It has been amazing to me how many autistic people, even ones who are not that verbal, can write on a computer or on the internet.

They also visit with people who are recovering from traumatic brain injuries, and autistic young adults.

Therapy animal handlers can tell many compelling stories of the powerful effect of their work: people in memory care that talk to the therapy animal after months of silence, a child in the hospital that doesn't appear to feel pain while the animal is visiting, autistic children who speak for the first time after petting a therapy animal.

SILBERMAN: Well, right at the moment that the true dimensions of what you might call the autistic community were becoming apparent — because the diagnostic criteria had finally been broadened enough to allow these people to become diagnosed — right at that moment, a guy in England named Andrew Wakefield, who was a gastroenterologist, released an instantly controversial paper blaming a certain form of autism that he claimed was novel on the MMR vaccine.

One of them is that in 1988, most people in the world who had never seen an autistic adult saw one for the first time.

And intriguingly the parents of autistic kids were largely dependent on reading the emotions on others faces via their mouths and not their eyes, as is the case with most people who are not afflicted with the condition.

The Legal Aid of Nebraska recently received a grant from the Autism Action Partnership in Omaha to provide free legal advice and assistance to people with autism and families who help an autistic relative.

There are many autistic self - advocates who strongly oppose these «treatment» approaches as they risk trying to «fix» the person's behaviours to live up to biased standards of what people view as «normal».