Cedar Park hosts water safety event for children with autism

A Cedar Park event offered swim lessons, life jacket fittings and water safety education for children with autism, aiming to ...

For children with autism, Pinellas pool’s swim lessons aim to save lives

The sliding glass door leading to Natasha Lim’s backyard pool has a lock and an alarm. A fence around the pool also has a ...
Nature

Visual statistical learning and social attention in neurotypical, minimally speaking and speaking autistic preschoolers

Autistic children experience atypical patterns of spoken language acquisition, yet the mechanisms underlying these differences remain poorly understood. In typical development, spoken language ...
Nature

New intelligent music therapy method for applications of enhancing social skills of autism children based on TL-GCN and deep learning

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development. It is primarily characterized by impairments in social interaction, ...
Medical Xpress

Challenges with motor coordination drive differences in imitation and learning in children with autism, research reveals

The ability to imitate gestures is key to learning from others and it helps foster social interactions. Children with autism, however, tend to imitate less often and less accurately than peers without ...
The Conversation

Learning from autistic teachers could change schools for the better

As a researcher in autism and education and a former secondary school teacher, it took me a while to realise that autistic school staff were rarely included in conversations about inclusion and ...