Quotes of: Autism Keyword

There should be no single representation in the autism world. Think about this if someone got up on stage and talked about having “non-autistic syndrome” and made the assumption every one with this syndrome is the same we would be in big trouble....

Living Through the Haze

What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language delays or lack of social engagement. Recent research suggests that autism can be detected during the first year of lif...

Thomas R. Insel

Children with autism are colourful - they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.

Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Practical Resource Book

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

Jenny McCarthy

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

Elizabeth Emken

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning Through Colour at Home and School

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. Al...

Temple Grandin

From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

Temple Grandin

The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.

Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning Through Colour at Home and School

Adapting our own perception, following rather than leading and building bridges are all keys to helping the child with autism learn.

Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning Through Colour at Home and School

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

Temple Grandin

As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.

Deron Williams

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Adrienne Bailon

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

Jenny McCarthy

We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will...

Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning Through Colour at Home and School

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Thomas R. Insel

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

Jenny McCarthy

I think that people with autism are born outside the regime of civilization. Sure, this is just my own made-up theory, but I think that, as a result of all the killings in the world and the selfish planet-wrecking that humanity has committed, a deep ...

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

autism is more like retina patterns than measles

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

For a long time our son was a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow rules, but are also the most l...

Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning Through Colour at Home and School