Autism and Dementia: (2)
Overlaps in biological pathways, clinical features and behavioural expression Although Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and ASD are etiologically...
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- Mar 18
- 4 min
Autism and Dementia: (1) Prevalence
- Hello, where are you? - I am at home. - At home? Where? - I have one home, in England. Why? What’s happened? - Why did you leave...
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- Feb 11
- 4 min
Telepathy:
Is it a supernatural or natural phenomenon? It depends. For example, if we see ‘telepathy’ as something ‘unscientific’ and ‘not worthy’...
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- Dec 9, 2022
- 3 min
Conscious and subconscious perception and how it is reflected in memory and thinking
The way we perceive the world affects the way we store and use information. The conscious mind is not the only way of receiving...
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- Nov 4, 2022
- 4 min
Autism: Sensations last too long
A painful truth Sensory stimuli can be experienced very differently by autistic individuals. Just because we may not feel something, it...
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- Sep 16, 2022
- 5 min
Communicative echolalia in autism
Though echolalia can be non-communicative, in many cases it is used for communication. Parents of autistic children (with echolalia) can...
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- Apr 15, 2022
- 2 min
Guidance 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...
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- Apr 1, 2022
- 5 min
Fluent Speakers – So What’s the Problem?
Some individuals with ASD (especially those with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome) possess well-developed spoken language,...
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- Mar 4, 2022
- 4 min
The 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...
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- Oct 29, 2021
- 5 min
Lack 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...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 4 min
Non-Verbal Languages in Autism
We assume that language is necessary verbal (i.e., comprising of words). That is why we say that children are verbal if they can talk (no...
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- Oct 8, 2021
- 4 min
Is Atypical Cry an Early Biomarker for Autism?
At about the same age all typically developing children, no matter what culture they are born into, manifest similar patterns of speech...
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- Sep 3, 2021
- 4 min
Looking for triggers of ‘challenging behaviours’ in autism.
It is not as simple as ABC When we come across a behaviour that’s difficult, there’s a popular method that’s used to help parents and...
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- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
Many faces of catatonia in autism
Thomas, a 12-year-old autistic boy has a long history of some features of anxiety and depression. For the past several months, he has...
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- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
Tourette syndrome and Autism
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome or Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by sudden, brief, repetitive,...
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- May 14, 2021
- 3 min
Face Blindness: ‘Hello, whatever-your-name-is’
- ‘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?’ -...
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- May 7, 2021
- 3 min
Attention! – Pay Attention to Attention in Autism
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...
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- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
Infantile reflexes in autism
“[After the assessment] I was surprised to learn that most of [the infantile reflexes] were still present and uninhibited in me at the...
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- Apr 9, 2021
- 4 min
Motor problems in individuals with ASD are the rule rather than the exception
Why motor problems are a sign of ASD and how identifying them at a young age can lead to better results for the child.
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