Research shows that young autistic children have more typical behaviour (89%) than atypical behaviour, for example, they look at people’s...

by Peter Myers Savant syndrome is the condition in which individuals with serious neurodevelopmental disabilities or other central...

When Wednesdays are blue, numbers are as cities, and 5 + 2 = yellow … After one of the ‘incidents’ (panic attacks), Alyosha attempted to...

Seeing or tasting sounds, hearing colours, being touched by sights… Alyosha was about 9 years old when he tried to account for a panic...

- ‘Mum, on my way home from school I met a very nice lady. We chatted. She sent you her best wishes.’ - ‘But who was this nice lady?’ -...

During a science lesson, the teacher shows a picture of a plant and explains what different parts of the plant do. ‘The root holds the...

Heel-to-toe, here we go When my son started walking (at the age of 12 months), his posture and gait was very strange: Alex started...

“[After the assessment] I was surprised to learn that most of [the infantile reflexes] were still present and uninhibited in me at the...

April is Autism Awareness Month. 30 years ago, parents of autistic children were doing their best to bring autism awareness 12 months a...