CALL 4 AUTISM ACTION: Help this School Win $500,000 from Kohls
Kohl’s Cares (Kohl’s community giving and volunteer program) is celebrating its 10th anniversary in a selfless and utterly generous fashion: by giving $500,000 to twenty different schools who all have important projects in need of funding. Kohl’s Cares raised the money through their Kohl’s Cares cause merchandise program. This program Full Article
AMC Theaters Do Autism-Friendly Screenings
Many parents of children with autism decide to wait until movies hit store shelves before they let their child see them. Going out to the movies simply isn’t feasible. Their child might have a tantrum, or get too excited and disrupt the movie for others. It can be tragic to watch a child get excited Full Article
Salk Institute Draws Link Between Language and Autism
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, located in San Diego, California, has been studying language and sociability in an attempt to uncover more about autism and Williams Syndrome. Both autism and Williams Syndrome are neurodevelopmental disorders that have great impacts on the social interaction of those affected by them. The specifics Full Article
Interpret Autism: Written Interaction Can Provide Clarity
According to reports and research, individuals with autism have a tough time building and maintaining friendships because they are unsure of how to respond to social cues. Part of the difficulty, likewise, comes from ambiguity and intonations of spoken language. To alleviate this situation and facilitate friendship building I encourage, parents of Full Article
Consumers with Autism Seek Gluten Free Products
Recently, I spoke with Matthew Cox of Bob’s Red Mill manufacturers. This company is the maker of the natural line Bob’s Red Mill products. Matthew is committed to the company’s goal of changing the way people eat and has played an instrumental role in the growth of Bob’s Red Mill as a leader in whole Full Article
Review: Glide Bikes for Children with Autism
Learning how to ride a bike is a big step for any child, let alone a child with autism. Further, figuring out how to teach a child with autism to ride a bike safely can be a nightmare for a parent. In many cases, this is something that is never mastered by their child with Full Article
Brain Scanning and Autism Diagnosis: More Than Meets The Eye
Many stories have been covered recently regarding potential breakthroughs in autism research. While many trials are being done testing the brains of infants, and some researchers are trying to extract and isolate certain genes, researchers at King’s College London have been doing things differently. After testing 40 adults, they were able to Full Article
Jewish Boy with Autism Completes Rite of Passage
Preparing for a Bar Mitzvah can be extremely time consuming for a young boy. Besides preparing for the Bar Mitzvah itself, boys must attend Hebrew School for a minimum of 4 years. However, 14-year-old, Jesse Martinez, a boy who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, was not going to let that stand in his Full Article
Seeing Past the Surface: Vision Abnormalities and Autism
The cause of autism is still not clear, but as we continue to research, we are finding that there is more to this disorder than what meets the eye. A recent study discovered that close relatives of people with autism have a higher tendency to suffer from abnormalities in their vision. This could mean that Full Article
Apple’s iPad Helping Children with Autism
Since its release in April 2010, Apple has sold over 3 million iPads. The iPad is a “tablet computer”, which is geared to be used for reading books, listening to music, accessing media online, playing games, and watching movies. The product was received well critically, and obviously was a commercial success. Over the last few Full Article
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