Sentences with phrase «n't neurotypical»

Teachers today have unprecedented tools at their fingertips to assist and encourage students who aren't neurotypical.

It can be even harder when you're not neurotypical, when you seriously can't remember people's names from one playdate to the next.

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Finch tries to overcome those tendencies — his self - involvement, obsessions, inflexibility and lack of empathy — by developing a guide to help him become if not «neurotypical,» at least easier to live with.

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

Over the past decade or so, a growing autistic pride movement has been pushing the idea that people with autism aren't disabled, they just think differently to «neurotypicals».

In other provocative research, Jill James, director of the Autism Metabolic Genomics Laboratory at the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (and professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) has found that many children with autism do not make as much of a compound called glutathione as neurotypical children do.

The company paid scientists at Duke University School of Medicine and Florida Clinical Research Center to run a four - week study involving 80 children ages eight to 12 — 40 with ADHD who were not taking medications and 40 neurotypical, or those whose functions were within a normal range.

So is the stigma attached to people who aren't «neurotypical» starting to disappear?

These children become sensory - seeking because, although they need stimulation, they can not endure hugs and squeezes that neurotypical kids enjoy.

For example, you can emphasize how you have a detailed child care plan, are on top of the children's medical and educational needs, are stable in your work life, and may be able to interact productively with any of the children who share your tendencies in a way that a more neurotypical person might not.

Marcia wrote «We have a determination process and SOME HOOPS for the tenant to go through to demonstrate they have a qualified disability» Ableists attitudes really anger me, though I suppose I should be used to NTs» [neurotypicals] seeing only what they wish to even when it is right in front of their faces.