Sentences with phrase «boy with autism says»

The mother of a 17 - year - old - boy with autism says her son was punched four times by a police officer while he was at a friend's house in Northampton.

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«Based on our research criteria, parents report that the girls in our study with autism seem to have a more difficult time with day - to - day skills than the boys,» says Allison Ratto, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a clinical psychologist within the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's Natautism seem to have a more difficult time with day - to - day skills than the boys,» says Allison Ratto, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a clinical psychologist within the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's NatAutism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National.

Maybe it's not as prominent as boys in the statistics, but girls do have autism and there is significant research that shows that girls with autism have a very different type than boys do,» says Silverman.

Some autism awareness campaigns want you to «Light It Up Blue» because they say that autism disproportionately affects boys, but the fact that white heterosexual cisgender boys are more likely to be diagnosed with autism doesn't mean that they're more likely to be autistic.

«We've found that while boys and girls with autism are facing similar problems in school and at home, some of their underlying brain functions are different,» said Kevin Pelphrey, a leading autism researcher and director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute at George Washington Univeautism are facing similar problems in school and at home, some of their underlying brain functions are different,» said Kevin Pelphrey, a leading autism researcher and director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute at George Washington Univeautism researcher and director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute at George Washington UniveAutism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute at George Washington University.

Girls tend to camouflage their autism symptoms more and engage differently with peers and adults than autistic boys, she says.

Mother of student with autism says Montessori school violated law when it said boy could not return for 5th grade.

She said she had a young boy who was a client and, because of his autism, was terrified of dogs to the point of being a danger to himself if presented with an animal.