The Senate should support the Safe Interactions Act and the HELP Act to make our cities and towns safer for both law enforcement personnel and people with disabilities.
Autism Fast Facts
Here is a look at autism.
ASD can be found among all races, ethnicities and socioeconomic groups.
Diagnosis
There is no definitive medical test to diagnose autism. Instead, the disorder is diagnosed by observing a child’s development.
According to the CDC, signs of autism may include deficits in social communication and interaction in a variety of contexts, difficulty engaging in back-and-forth conversation and an absence of interest in forming friendships with peers.
Vaccines and Autism
The debate over whether autism spectrum disorders are caused by vaccines started in 1998 when the medical journal The Lancet published a now-retracted study by researcher Andrew Wakefield linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
Autism Fast Facts
Here is a look at autism.
ASD can be found among all races, ethnicities and socioeconomic groups.
Diagnosis
There is no definitive medical test to diagnose autism. Instead, the disorder is diagnosed by observing a child’s development.
According to the CDC, signs of autism may include deficits in social communication and interaction in a variety of contexts, difficulty engaging in back-and-forth conversation and an absence of interest in forming friendships with peers.
Vaccines and Autism
The debate over whether autism spectrum disorders are caused by vaccines started in 1998 when the medical journal The Lancet published a now-retracted study by researcher Andrew Wakefield linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
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People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have had unique burdens during the pandemic. “COVID-19 has been devastating to the autism community, as well as the greater intellectual and developmental disability community,” says Christopher Banks, the president of the Autism Society of America. “We’ve seen service interruptions, failure of the education system to provide services, isolation, and we ve even seen higher death rates.”
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability associated with social, communication, and behavioral challenges.
In fact, people with developmental disabilities such as autism are more than three times as likely to die following a diagnosis of COVID-19 than others, according to a report published on March 21, 2021, in
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This April, the Autism Society of America, in cooperation with other disability organizations, tried something different.
Normally, the month would be branded as “Autism Awareness Month.” Instead, this celebratory and informative period will be known as “Autism Acceptance Month.”
The change represents a long-held belief by autism advocates, specifically within the neurodiversity movement, that in order to create a more inclusive future, society must help autistic people lead more fulfilling lives rather than treat the condition like an illness.
Autism has often been misunderstood by those outside the spectrum. How should we be thinking about autism?