Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum

What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-teen and Teenage Years Growing up isn’t easy, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager can be particularly confusing for girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). This book covers all the concerns commonly faced by girls with ASDs...

Visual Pattern Preference May Be Indicator Of Autism In Toddlers

Using eye-tracking methods, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that toddlers with autism spend significantly more time visually examining dynamic geometric patterns than they do looking at social images – a viewing pattern not found in either typical or...

Helping the Child with Autism Develop a Sense of Agency and Initiative

God, I feel like I have no mind to use with others.  I know I have a mind.  It thinks.  It sees.  It reads.  But this mind is different than others.  This mind disappears in the presence of others.  Others’ minds are the boss of my mind.  I am at the whim of everyone.  I feel like a ball being...

Learning for Life: What You Need To Know About Autism

By KING5 NewsAbout one out of every 110 children is diagnosed with autism.Sixty years after being identified as a disorder, scientists still don’t know what causes autism. And, just like snowflakes, no two individuals with autism are alike. On one end of the spectrum is Asperger’s Disorder, a high...

Thinking About Autism as a State of Dissociation

Through the lens of an “Incomplete Attachment” I have previously described that the child (teen or adult) with autism is experiencing dissociated states.  What does this mean?  From my perspective, the child has many parts of himself that have not become integrated as a whole.  These aspects...