I'm grateful to the friendly_crips member who led me to this article about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Its author, Amy Sequenzia, sounds assertive, bright and articulate doesn't she? I can relate to that ( Read more... )

You might be interested in this. One third more appeals lodged than in the previous year ( Read more... )

The last few days I've been seeing a lot of posts from people who are not autistic who want to create some sort of dividing line between those autistic people who are deemed "high functioning" (mostly those who have Asperger's, those who can talk, and those who can live independently) and those who are deemed "low-functioning" (those who are non- ( Read more... )

Most of the autistic people I know seem comfortable with terms like 'the spectrum' and 'high/low functioning' so I hesitate to give a different opinion. But I'm not comfortable with those terms. ( Cut for mention of self-harming )