Sentences with phrase «many people with autism»

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.

For SAP's largest Canadian operation, in Vancouver, that meant reaching a target of 13 people with autism on the payroll.

Roberta Scherf, CEO of PrioHealth, company focused on helping people with autism, says that her unique perspective is the reason for her success.

SAP plans to hire a «whole bunch» of people with autism.

«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.

Most people don't understand how devastating changes in routine are to people with autism.

Nor a word from the «black leaders» of J.Cole's insult to people with autism in his rap «Jodeci Freestyle».

Stacey Gordon used to do therapeutic work for people with autism, and her own son is on the spectrum.

1 % of all Adelina Madelina sales are donated to the Autism Research Institute, a non-profit organization that pioneers and advocates for people with autism.

The Help Group's 2018 Advance LA Conference, Thriving Through Transitions: Finding Strengths in Differences, will feature 20 internationally prominent experts whose research and practice support young people with autism, learning differences and ADHD in their transition to college, the workplace and beyond.

New research has proven what plenty of parents already know: people with autism can have good creativity.

Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat dozens of diseases and are being tested in FDA - regulated clinical trials to help people with autism, brain injury, and other conditions.

Each person with autism is different; there is no one size fits all for the steps to take to make playtime more inclusive.

The government launched a new consultation on autism today by having five people with Autism Spectrum Conditions deliver the first responses in person to care services minister Phil Hope.

National Autism Awareness Month is an opportunity to raise awareness about autism, promote inclusion and self - determination for all and assure that each person with Autism Spectrum Disorder is provided the opportunity to achieve the highest possible quality... Read more

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.

There's a crucial need to get findings to practitioners to help them obtain the best evidence possible from people with autism.»

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

Officers reported, for example, finding it hard to build rapport with people with autism, which usually plays an important part 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.

The bill hopes to improve local planning of services by bolstering information about people with autism, improve inter-agency working for those moving from child to adult services and ensure access to appropriate support and services for people with autism in adult life.

If Albany doesn't step up now, the impact on people with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and other developmental disabilities will be like nothing anybody wants to experience,» said former Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, who served in the Assembly for 25 years and has a son, Ricky, with a developmental disability.

Congress is considering legislation that would make it easier to track people with autism who wonder off from educational institutions.

His comments came during Seven Days of Action, a campaign led by families to shine a spotlight on the thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties currently detained in some form of in - patient setting.

National Autism Awareness Month is an opportunity to raise awareness about autism, promote inclusion and self - determination for all and assure that each person with Autism Spectrum Disorder is provided the opportunity to achieve the highest possible quality of life.

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

«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.

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.

Jiang said autism researchers worldwide could use the mouse model to study ways to compensate for the gene and improve symptoms in people with autism spectrum disorders and Phelan - McDermid Syndrome, a more profound developmental condition caused by mutations to SHANK3 and other genes in chromosome 22.

Parents or siblings of people with autism are more likely to have some of the same visual - tracking problems that their affected relatives have

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences followed a small group of high - functioning people with autism and found that they responded more to social cues when given the hormone oxytocin.

A special retelling of The Tempest shows how people with autism may be able to tap into the rhythmic heart of Shakespeare's plays

UNSETTLING it may be, but following the gaze of a virtual face during a brain scan is helping to unravel brain activity that is key to complex human social interactions: activity that may be atypical in people with autism.

ASD is usually defined by impairments in social interaction and communication, but many people with autism and Asperger's syndrome (in which symptoms are milder) also tend to fixate on and remember seemingly irrelevant information in their world.

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

THE jury is out about the ability of drama to help people with autism, and plays by Shakespeare would seem to be unlikely candidates.

Since then, researchers have wondered whether the hormone could have similar «pro-social» effects in people with autism, who often struggle to understand and respond to social cues.

My colleague Rosalind Picard has been working on technology for people with autism, creating emotional - social prosthetics.

These observations jibe with those from a study of 26,000 adults with autism and 130,000 controls in Sweden, which found that most people with autism prefer partners on the spectrum.

Previous work has shown that people with autism pay less attention to socially relevant parts of scenes.

Although eye tracking has been used in earlier studies of social attention in people with autism, Riby and Hancock's study is the first to use eye tracking to study gaze behaviors in people with Williams syndrome.

The sounds and sensations of physical intimacy can overwhelm some people with 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.

One program in the Netherlands, called Tackling Teenage Training, individualizes sex education for young people with autism.

«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.

The intricacies of dating — striking up a conversation with a stranger or trying to gauge another person's interest based on body language or facial expressions, for example — aren't specific to people with autism, but they're more difficult for people with the condition to navigate.

The first factor comes naturally to people with autism who feel positive about their sexual function.