the autism crisis: science & ethics in the era of autism advocacy

There are real and fake smiles that can be distinguished visually, if you know how, and it turns out that there are real and fake laughs. Wi...

The press release for the 2009 Association for Behavior Analysis International convention claims that behaviour analysis "Reveals Meth...

You have seen the autism recovery story in the media . Bloggers have jumped in too. I was at IMFAR 2009 in Chicago and saw the educati...

The following letter was forwarded to an INSAR (International Society for Autism Research) official... To the INSAR Board of Directors: I a...

The International Meeting for Autism Research was held in Chicago this year, from May 7-9. This was the biggest IMFAR to date, with more th...

Last year, the British Academy and Royal Society held a two-day discussion meeting called " Autism and Talent " which became the b...

Dear Ms Svoboda, I've read your article about the so-called "autism culture movement," something I am not involved in. In thi...

A recently epublished paper reports autism epidemiology in Aruba ( van Balkom et al., in press ). The findings: autism prevalence of ~19/10,...

People First attended the recent autism conference in Halifax , where their work was featured in my presentation. Here is the information Pe...

Two UK sources, here and here , report the same story: a young autistic girl, Melanie-Rose Wichmann, was "shut in a tiny, windowless r...

A few days ago, Canada's senators were debating a law about autism . According to Senator Wilbert J. Keon, this proposed law, Bill S-210...

Michael Ganz of Harvard has published two papers about the costs of autism, a book chapter in 2006 and a peer-reviewed paper in 2007 . Medi...

This episode of Verbatim finds autism researchers and clinicians wrestling in various ways with the (apparently) elusive concept of autism ...

When it comes to behaviour analytic approaches to autism, the paper that started it all, and set the tone for what was to come, was Fuller (...

The MIND's recently published autism epidemiology ( Hertz-Picciotto & Delwiche, 2009 ) has been widely publicized (press release is ...

Of course there are bloggers blogging about autism, everywhere, in staggering if not epidemic numbers. But my question is about bloggers who...

Doreen Granpeesheh is a well-respected Board Certified Behavior Analyst who " serves on the Defeat Autism Now (DAN!) Executive Council ...

Here's a handful of interesting autism-related papers published in 2008, ranging across scales and subjects: 1. Autism and speech: Gerns...