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  2. John Elder Robison - Wikipedia

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    Robison is active in the autism rights movement. He volunteered at Autism Speaks as a member of their treatment and advisory boards, saying that he was interested in helping remediate the disabling aspects of autism. He resigned in 2013 following an op-ed released by Suzanne Wright, a co-founder of Autism Speaks.

  3. Employment of autistic people - Wikipedia

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    Job interviews, based on social skills, are particularly discriminating for adults with autism. The job interview is cited as probably "the most difficult part of the job search for people with autism", [166] [167] [168] and negative perception of autistic candidates by non-autistic interviewers is frequently cited as a major barrier to gaining ...

  4. Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication ...

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    In 1993, Jones et al. [10] stated that there was insufficient use of the TEACCH approach in the UK to include it in their study of interventions. [11] In 2003 it was reported that Gary B. Mesibov and Eric Schopler describe TEACCH as the United Kingdom's most common intervention used with children with autism. In Europe and the United States, it ...

  5. Autism therapies - Wikipedia

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    Educational interventions attempt to help children not only to learn academic subjects and gain traditional readiness skills, but also to improve functional communication and spontaneity, enhance social skills such as joint attention, develop cognitive skills such as symbolic play, reduce disruptive behavior, and generalize learned skills by applying them to new situations.

  6. List of schools for people on the autism spectrum - Wikipedia

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    The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), [Fresno] - A specialized institution providing educational and therapeutic services to individuals with autism spectrum disorder. [ 2 ] Connecticut

  7. Assessment of basic language and learning skills - Wikipedia

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    The revised assessment of basic language and learning skills (ABLLS-R) is an assessment tool, curriculum guide, and skills-tracking system used to help guide the instruction of language and critical learner skills for children with autism or other developmental disabilities.

  8. Chemistry education - Wikipedia

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    Chemistry education (or chemical education) is the study of teaching and learning chemistry. It is one subset of STEM education or discipline-based education research (DBER). [ 1 ] Topics in chemistry education include understanding how students learn chemistry and determining the most efficient methods to teach chemistry.

  9. Savant syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The estimates range from "exceedingly rare" [18] to one in ten people with autism having savant skills in varying degrees. [1] A 2009 British study of 137 parents of autistic children found that 28% believe their children met the criteria for a savant skill, defined as a skill or power "at a level that would be unusual even for 'normal' people ...