Five Years of Autism Activism: Unifying Opposed Viewpoints
by Yuval Levental I started getting involved in autism activism five years ago by writing about autism and neurodiversity, the belief that autism is simply a difference, on Cortical […]
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New Guidelines for the Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
An update on the 2007 report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was recently published in the journal Pediatrics. Those wishing for more information can download the pdf of […]
Rastros de memoria y el autismo
La capacidad para realizar múltiples tareas al mismo tiempo es de gran importancia para poder sobrellevar las exigencias impuestas por nuestra sociedad, trabajo y amistades. Nuestro medioambiente nos bombardea con […]
Los antibioticos y el microbioma en el autismo
Los antibióticos se han utilizado durante cientos de años para tratar infecciones. De hecho, hace unos dos mil años, los egipcios aplicaron pan mohoso para tratar heridas infectadas. Sin embargo, […]
Margaret Creedon
I just received a “like” on a blog that was published quite a few years ago. At the end of the blog I had inserted the picture shown below: The […]
Terapia de integración auditiva y el autismo
Muchos tratamientos e intervenciones en el autismo se han centrado en métodos para reducir tanto comportamientos desadaptativos como aquellos síntomas relacionados a comorbilidades (e.j., convulsiones). A modo de contraste, ha […]
Autism: Are you being agreeable?
Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition diagnosed by how a person reacts to his or her environment. Living things respond or adapt to their environment as a characteristic of life. Whenever […]
El peso del cerebro en el autismo
Es realmente fascinante que incluso después de que una persona haya sido declarada legalmente muerta, las células del cerebro son aún capaces de reaccionar a estímulos ambientales. Tan solo unos […]
International Consortium of Autism Institutes
As President of the international Consortium of Autism Institutes (ICAI) I had the opportunity to open the VIII International Forum on Autism celebrated in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The theme this year […]
Autism burnout: challenging symptoms and ineffective therapies
Some hardly recognized problems of autism provide for the most common and severe disabling symptoms. When present, they serve to limit the senses, activities, and the joy of living of […]
