Sentences with phrase «many autistic»

In addition to Focus in Vancouver, there's also Meticulon in Calgary and Specialisterne in Toronto — agencies that help place autistic candidates in permanent jobs.

Because autism is a largely invisible condition, misunderstandings can arise unless co-workers know what their autistic colleagues are capable of and what they aren't; the latter category may include simple things like greeting co-workers in the morning or keeping their shoes tied.

«If computers were human,» Lenat told us, «they'd present themselves as autistic, schizophrenic, or otherwise brittle.

Autistic people are known for thriving in repetitive tasks, which is an especially valuable skill set in today's data - driven work environments.

Outfits like Roses for Autism help compensate for what the famed autistic animal - science professor and writer Temple Grandin believes is unhelpful parental coddling.

He had heard Patch's daughter Kilee had been diagnosed autistic and thought Patch might be able to help with his fledgling research effort.

Meanwhile, other researchers are using the device to enhance vision for those with poor eyesight and even the near - blind, to understand how humans handle heavy workloads and multitasking — and, perhaps, most intriguingly, to better engage autistic individuals with the world around them.

El Kaliouby and Picard, an MIT professor and Affectiva's chief scientist, were developing a device that could respond to users» emotions, with the aim of helping autistic children communicate better.

The two hit it off, and soon after they teamed up at MIT's Media Lab, armed with a near - million - dollar National Science Foundation grant, to prototype a sort of emotional hearing aid for autistic people — essentially a wearable camera that scanned people's facial expressions to interpret social cues, in real time, for the person wearing the device.

What it's about: When a father dies, his spoiled son inherits only a fraction of his small fortune while his autistic savant brother inherits the bulk of it.

«Social robots have already redefined the landscape when it comes to, for example, teaching autistic children how to identify facial expressions and non-verbal cues, leading to more appropriate socializing,» she says.

Large portions of the articulate class consider most of the people involved in these pursuits to be autistic.

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?

Retired Broward teacher Joe Carrier taught a woodworking class at Cross Creek while Cruz attended the school, and remembers Cruz as «a quiet kid» who kept to himself and appeared to be «mildly autistic.»

If you consider a woman trying to find a way to cope with her son being autistic and reaching out to friends and family for support «sick», then yes, she is a very sick person.

My autistic daughter is a wonderful presence in a life that occasionally gets defined by silly expectations of the right kinds of accomplishment and status.

Its innovative programs for autistic children and homebound elderly people are models for the new Russia.

My son is 9 yrs old and Autistic with Development Delay.

To even SUGGEST and make a general statement that if someone is autistic or has seizures or.tourrwttez that they are possessed by the devil.us both irresponsible and VERY UN CHRISTIAN.

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.

Best Storytelling: Matthew Moore at The Atlantic with «Growing Up with An Autistic Brother in the 1990s»

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«Some of the most important applications have been to the training of retarded children, to the elimination of sexual disorders, to the large - scale amelioration of adult psychotic behavior, to the training of autistic children, to the re-education of delinquent adolescents... to marriage counseling, to weight control and to

It does not bode well for the country that millions of Americans» most regular interaction with a person on the autistic spectrum is Big Bang Theory's Sheldon, for example.

Together they raise two sons, one of them autistic and the other gifted.

When the article mentioned «theory of mind» it reminded me of a population which typically has an impaired sense of it: Autistic children.

There appears to be a widespread concern amongst parents that not only can't they get their autistic kids to go to church without a fuss (the change in routine, and sensory overload contributing greatly to this), but they just can't get their kids to believe in an all - watchful God.

I had a neighbor who sent their blind, autistic son to a boarding school for blind kids.

It turns out, her son is autistic and eats alone almost every day.

Like most parents of autistic children, I cherish my daughter.

He is also diagnosed autistic and has verbal apraxia which severely limits his ability to speak.

When Bruno Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990 at the age of 86 he had a towering and broadly based reputation: as a wise and humane child psychiatrist in whose Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago hundreds of severely disturbed children had been restored to normal life, as an expert on child - rearing in the Israeli kibbutzim, as a survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau whose writings had established him as an authority on life in the concentration camps, and as a specialist in the treatment of autistic children.

They called the economics they were being taught «autistic» — divorced from reality — and called for a post-autistic economics that would «rescue economics from its autistic and socially irresponsible state».

I hope that doesn't sound uncaring but as an Autistic person I often don't quite «get it», but that story is amazing.

None of the non-believers I know exhibit any autistic symptoms at all, and the one person I know well with aspergers attends church.

I have the right to criticize China since a lot of autistic children end up in the orphanage.

Do you describe a boy as an «autistic child»?

This morning, I sat next to an autistic man on the metro.

She was nominated by her friend Nicole Hardy on behalf of her 11 - year - old autistic son... More

I think it's very likely that she was autistic; you can get a sense of it from her characters, but it seems to be the case on you've looked into her personal life.

You see one of my girls is a brilliant autistic and the other is a satiric genius who is a quick with a comment as Zorro was with a blade.

He tries to explain to the officers that the autistic man he was helping are both unarmed and he only had a toy truck in his hands.

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

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

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.

It was his desire to help other families that made him decide at age twenty - five to write a book about what it is like to be autistic.

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.

As is frequently the case with autistic people, Sean has an unusually complete and accurate memory of his past, and he has analyzed his childhood memories in an attempt to explain behavior that was incomprehensible to other people.

The parents of autistic children in the 1960s faced a world that was largely ignorant and uncaring.

Autistic people spend a good part of their energy keeping the world at bay, holding off intimacy in any form.