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Playground Study: Making Recess More Inclusive for Kids with Autism
Recess, for most children, is synonymous with freedom. A break from class that has nothing to do with learning and everything to do with play. For children with autism, the playground can be an isolating experience. The spontaneous soccer games, Read more >>
Stanford Researchers Develop a Smartphone App to Simultaneously Treat and Track Autism
Diagnosing autism can take half a day or more of clinical observation, and that’s the quick part – often, families wait years just to get to that point. Now, in hopes of speeding things up, Stanford researchers are developing a Read more >>
Study: Reworked Autism Definition Prompted Drop In Diagnoses
Five years after a sweeping overhaul of the diagnostic criteria for autism, research suggests that the changes have led fewer people to be identified with the developmental disorder. Read more >>
Donkey Therapy Helps Kids with Autism
At Cultivate Care Farms, an outpatient care farm in Bolton, Mass., clients with mental health, addiction and communication disorders come to connect with animals and agriculture as a form of therapy. Care farming is a centuries-old model that originated in Read more >>
How to Support Mental Health in People with Autism
Mental health among autistic individuals is an underdeveloped area of research—a situation that many autistic people are advocating to change. This is especially crucial since rates of depression and thoughts of suicide are higher among autistic people than in the Read more >>
Autism Research and The Wall Lab at Stanford
Dr. Dennis P. Wall of the Wall Lab at Stanford University discusses current autism-related research projects (such as Autism and the Microbiome) and novel wearable technology that helps children recognize emotions. Read more >>
Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder and OCD: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment
Interventions shown to be highly effective in treating symptoms of autism are already limited, but the options shrink even further in the presence of anxiety comorbidities, particularly obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Research has been focused not only on identifying a Read more >>
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