4 days ago3 minAutism: Becoming a Professional Parent For more than 30 years, I’ve been researching autism. It all started, when my son, at the age of 2 and a half, was diagnosed (no, not...
Apr 283 minPlacebo and Nocebo EffectsThe placebo effect can be defined as the power of the mind and the unconscious to heal in response to something (whether sugar pills or...
Apr 142 minGuidance for communicating and interacting with autistic people Autistic people have unique ways of communicating and interacting that are rooted in their unique ways of thinking and experiencing the...
Apr 15 minFluent Speakers – So What’s the Problem?Some individuals with ASD (especially those with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome) possess well-developed spoken language,...
Mar 44 minThe Role of Sensory Perceptual Differences in Autism: The Intense World Syndrome and other ‘sensory theories’ Although already in the very first descriptions of autistic children, researchers...
Jan 223 minBilingualism in Autism:To speak (another language) or not to speak (with an autistic child)? Typically developing children in multilingual families tend to pick...
Dec 3, 20212 minLaughing is not always a laughing matterIn autism, there is laughing/giggling and ‘laughing/giggling’. There can be numerous reasons to laugh, which are difficult to understand...
Nov 5, 20212 minLate talkersNot much is known about the language trajectories of non-verbal and minimally verbal children yet. However, the number of research...
Oct 29, 20215 minLack of expressive verbal language – ‘autistic muteness’: Why can’t my child speak? It was estimated that about one third (Bryson 1996) to one half (Lord & Paul 1997) of autistic people never...