In 2003, Susan Senator first wrote in Education Week about the personal and educational challenges facing her autistic son. The mother of three boys, and then a Brookline, Mass., school board member, ...

Reading Firefighters Local #1803 raised more than $1,250 for autism awareness with its annual T-shirt sale, city officials announced this week. The proceeds were used to purchase essential items for ...

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There have long been reports of minimally verbal and nonverbal autistic people precipitously displaying advanced reading, writing, and other skills not previously evident. Nearly invariably, these ...

MindSpec proudly announces the public launch of its new science outreach website, Autism Reading Room (http://readingroom.mindspec.org). Autism Reading Room is the ...

Nicholas V. Johnson’s friends tell him that all it takes to be rich is to roll up your sleeves and work hard. Johnson tells them that that’s a load of hooey (he used a different, unprintable word).

Children with autism may be good at reading a text one word at a time, but simultaneously have problems in understanding and retelling the content of what they read. Research now shows the importance, ...

The idea of reading great literature with people with autism may surprise some, but not Ralph James Savarese. The father of a son with autism, and a professor of English at Grinnell College, Savarese ...

Repeated reading sessions with animals at a library Tartu has made Mattias Manfred Reinlo more open and willing to talk, his older brother Karl said. Anneli Aim said her son Toni normally did not like ...

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