Sentences with phrase «on people with autism»

And Jon Wertheim reports on people with autism playing sports at all levels, including professionally.

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.

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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.

Benefits offered: Zoetis offers every employee one week of paid caregiver leave annually, an on - site child care center, assistance with covering treatments for children with autism spectrum and related issues and infertility benefits that averaged $ 35,000 per person in 2016.

Independent Home and Health Services provides supported and independent living services and support to persons with developmental delays, physical challenges, mental disorders, as well persons on the Autism Spectrum.

On April 2, World Autism Awareness Day, join in the effort to support those with autism by wearing or displaying a puzzle piece, symbolizing that through awareness, acceptance and inclusion, each person living with ASD can reach their full potential and enjoy a better quality ofAutism Awareness Day, join in the effort to support those with autism by wearing or displaying a puzzle piece, symbolizing that through awareness, acceptance and inclusion, each person living with ASD can reach their full potential and enjoy a better quality ofautism by wearing or displaying a puzzle piece, symbolizing that through awareness, acceptance and inclusion, each person living with ASD can reach their full potential and enjoy a better quality of life.

«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.»

I interact regularly with people who have autism, OCD, bipolar, anxiety, depression, and so on.

Religion will NEVER want ANYTHING to do with anyONE on the autism spectrum; Roman Catholicism, for the worst example, even excommunicates and anathematizes — and that is ETERNAL, in that such people are considered GUILTY of FINAL IMPENITENCE without having committed ANY other offenses — ANYONE AND EVERYONE who is NOT of sound mind!!!

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

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There seems to be an increase in the world and it may have something to do with our digitalized universe that we're now immersed in but it basically is mild form of autism is or Asperger's syndrome is people are not be involved with others, that they feel comfortable on their own, that they have difficulty picking up social cues, emotional cues from others, that they have a harder time imagining what the other person might feel and they oftentimes just need to be trained or especially early that this is what's going on so that they can begin to compensate and learn about the other person and how they might be feeling.

For example, a child who struggles with sensory motor integration or who has autism can be working on the very same four facets of Emotional Intelligence * (EI) right alongside a child for whom self - control, sitting quietly and / or perceiving another person's needs come easily, it's just going to look a little different.

And finally there are our Autism Friendly sessions that welcome those on the autistic spectrum with their families or carers to a session with half the number of participants and lower music alongside people who understand and share the same issues and concerns.

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 Philautism today by having five people with Autism Spectrum Conditions deliver the first responses in person to care services minister PhilAutism Spectrum Conditions deliver the first responses in person to care services minister Phil Hope.

«Autism Awareness Day helps to shed light on the need for person - centered services and supports for children and adults with autism and their families,» said QSAC CEO and Executive Director GARY MAutism Awareness Day helps to shed light on the need for person - centered services and supports for children and adults with autism and their families,» said QSAC CEO and Executive Director GARY Mautism and their families,» said QSAC CEO and Executive Director GARY MAFFEI.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scientists used CRISPR - Cas9 to shed light on why people with 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome — a rare human genetic disorder — are more likely to develop brain disorders like autism spectrum disorder, epilepsy and schizophrenia (Karun K. Singh, abstract 103.05, see attached summary).

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.

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.

That may be because a strong relationship depends on partners being both self - aware and aware of others, maintaining emotional stability and being able to learn from past experiences — three domains that prove challenging for some people with autism, Lerner says.

A smart glasses app may help children with autism to focus on and interact with other people by overlaying bullseye targets and cartoons on their faces.

People with the disorder, which falls on the autism spectrum, lack social intuition and may fixate on obscure topics.

• Living Arrangements have a range of outcomes because some, but not all, people on the autism spectrum will eventually live independently as adults with or without some degree of support.

Incidence rates for Autism and ID on a per - person basis decrease by roughly 99 percent in states with stronger regulations on diagnosis of these disorders.

It's essential that people feel they are in a safe, comfortable setting with someone who can oversee the experience, says Alicia Danforth, a clinical psychologist at the Harbor — UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, who is involved in MAPS - sponsored trials studying MDMA's effects on social anxiety in adults with autism.

On the other hand, anecdotal reports from people with autism suggest that they find eye contact unpleasant.

In people, autism is diagnosed based on behavioral criteria: abnormal social interactions, difficulties with communication and repetitive actions.

The new research, conducted on the day when children were first diagnosed, shows that young children with autism do not actively avoid eye contact, and it confirms that other people's eyes are not aversive to young children with autism.

In his article on the advantages of autism, David Wolman stated that some people with autism «can't see the wood...

Last week at the 23rd International Conference on Subterranean Biology in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he demonstrated how drugs that help people with schizophrenia and autism similarly affect the fish.

In addition, the company is testing its video game on people with Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI)-- conditions believed to share a common weakness in the brain system that integrates sensory inputs.

They were less likely to school and swim along with other tadpoles (a tadpole proxy for socialization, which is impaired in autism); they weren't as good at avoiding contact with animated images projected on to the bottom of their petri dishes; they didn't habituate to startling noises (another analog to autism in people); and induced seizures were more frequent and shorter than in normal tadpoles.

So it stands to reason that as time goes on, more people with Asperger's or autism will look, to all the world, as if they are «cured» without actually being so.

The writer seems only dimly aware how this half - hearted message will set off a bomb in the world where Jenny McCarthy lives — that she will turn on that wicked grin and brandish this study to launch another 40 years of vicious debate over whether autism is caused by environmental factors, namely vaccines, and thus can be cured by brave and dedicated parents like her, or whether it's just a condition people are born with.

Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 2 have found that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) don't make this natural adjustment like other people do.

People with this rare genetic disorder are overly sociable and visuo - spatially impaired — conspicuously opposite to the hypothesized Neanderthal propensities and more typical cases on the autism spectrum.

Previous studies have found that people with autism and anorexia tend to score lower on the Eyes Test.

For instance, some of the genetic alterations found in the study occurred in families with one person severely affected by autism and others on the milder end of the spectrum, Dr. Scherer notes.

People with autism were kept on task at work with an iPod Touch featuring various checklist and prompting apps.

As well, although most of the discussion has focused on persons with difficult - to - treat depression, legalizing assisted dying for psychiatric disorders would mean that persons with schizophrenia, autism, eating disorders, PTSD, personality disorders, and even prolonged grief would be eligible to receive assisted dying.

Her research work focuses on the neurocognitive basis of autism spectrum conditions, with a particular interest in why people with autism find the social world so puzzling, yet often excel at detail - focussed tasks.

While scientists have identified some genetic similarities among people with autism, psychiatrists mostly rely on behavioral symptoms for diagnosis, Grissom said.

«Most of the research on these products has been on people with developmental disorders, like children with autism,» she notes.