The way we perceive the world affects the way we store and use information. The conscious mind is not the only way of receiving...

Sometimes sensory hypersensitivities are misinterpreted as extrasensory perception (ESP) as ‘normal’ people not only fail to see, hear,...

A painful truth Sensory stimuli can be experienced very differently by autistic individuals. Just because we may not feel something, it...

There are other types of echolalia that are difficult to explain, for example, involuntary echolalia , when the person blurts out words...

Though echolalia can be non-communicative , in many cases it is used for communication. Parents of autistic children (with echolalia) can...

If it’s not for communication, what’s the point? As I didn’t know much at the time, I made a mistake thinking that as soon as my son...

Which is better for autistic individuals? Although sign language was first developed as a means of communication for the deaf, it has...

I am happy to announce that the 2nd Edition of Communication Issues in Autism & Asperger Syndrome has now been published. In this book, I...

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...