Sentences with phrase «other autistic people»

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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.

Learning to 1st connect with a dog or cat will help an autistic kid in their interaction with other people.

«In light of these and other deeply worrying findings, we are urging more people to join our new autism research network, Discover, that will link the local autistic community with top UK research centres such as Coventry University.

Autistic people have a difficult time figuring out what other people are feeling.

Dogs» and other mammals» responses to and offerings of displays of affection, which are so unlike an autistic person's relationship to other people, completely undermine the model proposed in the article for interspecies understanding.

Mirella Dapretto, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, may have nailed down the source of some of autism's key symptoms, the social and emotional deficits that make it so difficult for autistic people to interact with others.

Autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome are both neurodevelopmental disorders but their manifestations couldn't be more different: While autistic individuals live in a world where objects make much more sense than people do, people with Williams syndrome are social butterflies who bask in other people's attention.

It's also not clear that all autistic people would welcome a drug which aimed to improve their social ability, especially if it had other side - effects.

Autistic people and carers of children with autism should not consider using the drug other than for its approved use as a cancer treatment.»

But a helpful fellow autistic called me out on my language and pointed out that I was both unfairly dismissing and hurting other people on the spectrum and ignoring my own fluctuating needs with that terminology.

[13] She is also conducting research on the benefits of camel's milk for autistic children and people with other diseases.

Other people began watching the lessons and sending Khan adulatory notes («First time I smiled doing a derivative,» wrote one) or thanking him for explaining fractions to an autistic son.

Being autistic means you see, hear and feel the world in a different, often more intense, way to other people.

And intriguingly the parents of autistic kids were largely dependent on reading the emotions on others faces via their mouths and not their eyes, as is the case with most people who are not afflicted with the condition.

A small number of individuals with autism will experience extreme aptitude with savant skills (calculating, memorizing, musical talent and others) While the range of total effects will vary, most autistic people will have the following symptoms in common: