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A Parent’s Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

The National Institute of Mental Health in the U.S. has put out a short book (27 pages) to inform parents about Autism. A Parent’s Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder can be read online, downloaded as a pdf or purchased as a hard-copy. The book is broken down into chapters: What is autism spectrum disorder (ASD)? [...]

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Navigating College: A Handbook on Self Advocacy Written for Autistic Students from Autistic Adults

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

ASAN have launched a project on navigating college. This includes a website, NavigatingCollege.org and a book “Navigating College: A Handbook on Self Advocacy Written for Autistic Students from Autistic Adults” (available for download from the website, and in print from the New Hampshire University Institute on Disability bookstore. Leaving high school and going to college [...]

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App May Help Nab Handicap Parking Violators

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

From Disability Scoop: App May Help Nab Handicap Parking Violators. A smartphone app may soon be all that’s needed to crack down on illegal parking in handicap spots. Officials in Austin, Texas are set to vote this week on a resolution that would allow residents to use an app to report handicap parking violators directly [...]

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Autism: Faces and lungs

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Two stories out in the past couple of days point to physical differences in autistics: faces and lungs. One study found that facial features were quantitatively different in autistic children than in non-autistic children. In MU study links facial features to autism, Janese Silvey wrote: A new University of Missouri study shows that children with [...]

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