development Archives — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

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Which Therapies Actually Help Autistic Children?

July 8, 2022 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Why parents of autistic kids need to be cautious and thoughtful about the therapies they consider for their children.

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On “Energy Budgeting” and Acknowledging Internal Autistic Realities

May 28, 2021 • By Anne Corwin

All humans deserve to be able to do energy budgeting in ways that make sense for us, and I hope to see the day when support for autistic people toward this end is considered a matter of basic ethics and decency.

Elizabeth Torres on Autistic Neuromotor Differences: The TPGA Interview

January 31, 2019 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Photo © Shannon Des Roches Rosa [image: two white kids in bathing suits running on a beach towards some waves.] Elizabeth Torres is Director and Principal Investigator at the New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence, and a researcher at Rutgers University, where her lab “develops new methods for precision medicine and mobile health.” We spoke

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“Can My Child Ever Learn to Speak?” Authentic Communication and Autistic People

January 14, 2019 • By Ann Memmott

Trust that your autistic child can thrive alongside others, whether with spoken words, or not. Do not be afraid to tell the next salesperson, arriving with a false horror story about how your child will never achieve anything without their ‘Patented Treatment,’ that you have more confidence in your child than they do.

Can People Really Grow Out of Autism?

January 23, 2013 • By Jen Myers

Emily Willingham www.emilywillinghamphd.com www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham Let’s start with the headlines blaring the news about a recent autism study. They almost invariably use the phrase “grow out of autism,” even though the study itself does not use that phrase or even reference “grow” except to talk about head circumference. Instead, the authors of the report, published in

How I Know Vaccines Didn’t Cause My Child’s Autism

July 13, 2010 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Devon Koren Asdell community.advanceweb.com/blogs/ot_9/default.aspx Eleven years ago, as I lounged in my mother’s apartment at the tender age of twenty, overwhelmed by the heat of the summer combined with my final trimester of pregnancy, I finally settled on a name for the creature who kept poking her tiny feet into my ribcage, the creature