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Autistic people are also less likely to graduate from secondary school, college, or other forms of higher education, further contributing to high rates of unemployment and lower quality of life. [8] [9] This failure to successfully complete education can be in part attributed to a lack of support from educational institutions.
The Dayton Public Schools worker can be seen chasing after the child as he runs down the hall. Then, the man strikes the child on his head, causing him to fall and hit his head on the floor, video ...
Autism Friendly sticker, indicating places accessible to people with autism. Employers rarely take measures to adapt workstations. [ 209 ] Specific adaptations for autistic people are often refused, [ 111 ] such as an individual desk rather than an open-plan layout , keeping office doors closed, or moving away from an elevator , on the grounds ...
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
The neurodiversity paradigm is a view of autism as a different way of being rather than as a disease or disorder that must be cured. [39] [41] Autistic people are considered to have neurocognitive differences [33] which give them distinct strengths and weaknesses, and are capable of succeeding when appropriately accommodated and supported.
An autistic child. The struggle for services. The 911 calls. This is the harrowing story of how one mom scrambled to get help for her son and keep her head above water.
The AGRE was established in the 1990s by a predecessor organization, Cure Autism Now. [34] Autism Speaks funds the Autism Tissue Program, a network of researchers that manages and distributes brain tissues donated for autism research. These donations are rare and are a vital component of research into the causes of autism. [35]
Holly Madison recently learned that she is on the autism spectrum. “I’ve been suspicious of it for a while because my mom told me that she was always suspicious that that was a thing ...