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Understand that someone with autism sees the world in a different way, writes the CEO of Friends Life Community. Opinion: 'We are not broken.' People with autism want a community that embraces them
People on the autism spectrum can help themselves manage situations by being aware of what they are feeling and thinking — and expressing their thoughts to important people in their life. Other tools are being aware of when they need help and asking for it — and thanking people when they have received assistance or a gift.
Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...
Joshua was born in Florida, and he and his family moved to York when he was 1, before he was diagnosed with autism. Joann’s mother lived in York, and she moved north to be closer to her.
A 2009 study [156] separated 27 students with conditions including autism, dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder, ADHD, and having suffered a stroke into two categories of self-view: "A 'difference' view—where neurodiversity was seen as a difference incorporating a set of strengths and weaknesses, or a 'medical/deficit' view—where ...
Large, high quality research has found small differences in the brain between ADHD and non-ADHD patients. [1] [15] Jonathan Leo and David Cohen, critics who reject the characterization of ADHD as a disorder, contended in 2003 and 2004 that the controls for stimulant medication usage were inadequate in some lobar volumetric studies, which makes it impossible to determine whether ADHD itself or ...
Many people feel that autism causes them to have a very different understanding of their gender than is expected of them. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Autistic people can struggle to infer social expectations, intentions and abstract concepts which lack tangible rules and reasons, [ 31 ] such as socially constructed expectations like gender, which can vary ...
For some parents of autistic children, a vaccine-autism relationship is tantalizing because it nurtures the hope of recovering from autism. These parents recognize that the U.S. is not going to ...