Sentences with phrase «of autistic girls»

As with Hamilton - Rohe's daughter, the experiences of autistic girls — both their diagnoses and services — often depend on what kind of classroom or school they're in.

But Park Row is already breaking that mold wide open; its first release will be The Improbable Flight of Ginny Moon, by Benjamin Ludwig, which takes on the tale of an autistic girl's search for her birth mother.

Not exact matches

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.

Whether they're of the autistic boy next door, the girl with Down Syndrome who was in your 2nd grade class, or the wheelchair sports team you saw practicing last week, these are the sort of images and thoughts that tend to stay with us long after the initial experience is over.

What we now know is that autistic girls and women can have very distinctive experiences of autism and how it affects... more

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

«This could mean that girls who meet the same clinical criteria as boys actually are more severely affected by ongoing social and adaptive skill deficits that we don't capture in current clinical measures, and that autistic girls, in general, may be camouflaging these types of autism deficits during direct assessments.»

This is the story of a man meeting with the autistic mother of a hitchhiking girl who died in his car after an accident.

Due for release on PSN in June, AMY is a survival horror / action adventure game, where players must protect, and escort the eponymous Amy - an enigmatic eight - year - old autistic girl with curious powers - as they try to get her out of a city overrun with wild creatures and dangerous enemies.

When a girl is black, Latina, trans, lesbian, queer, disabled, autistic, poor, immigrant, etc. — or any combination of these — her relationship to power is different.

Pelphrey, who encountered these disparities among his own children — two of whom are autistic — is part of a team conducting ongoing research devoted to uncovering what autism looks like in girls and how best to treat it.

And researchers, reacting to the apparent prevalence of autism among males, may have unknowingly created a gender bias in the science itself — by conducting their research predominantly on autistic boys and men, and then forming conclusions about the condition that have been applied to girls and women as well.

While the more than 4 - to - 1 ratio of boys to girls diagnosed with autism applies in MPS, the district reports differences in how autistic boys and girls interact socially and what they're interested in, affirming the new research.

Autistic girls are also more likely to be obsessive and have a harder time regulating emotions, leading to diagnoses of other problems like anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) instead of autism.

Even after working with autistic teenagers, I appreciated the authors version of how and why a young girl with autism would think and feel.

Writing poignantly and yet starkly believably from an autistic girl's point of view, he allows us to see the world in all its glorious mess, full of people trying to do their best and often failing, but heroically so.»

In asking us to identify with a developmentally delayed, autistic teenage girl and her peculiar obsession, Ben Ludwig set himself an Olympic degree of difficulty, but he succeeds with the extraordinary Ginny Moon.»

In late October, CBC News reported the story of Emily Ainsworth, an autistic nine - year - old girl who was asked to leave a store called Winners back in July because she was accompanied by her service dog, Levi.