Young children with autism tend to look less at faces and more at background details than their peers do, but taking objects out of their environment changes how they observe others. Removing toys from a social scene increases the amount of time all children spend looking at people, which could inform better designs for clinical…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s autism panel touts a communication method popular among parents of severely autistic people. Critics warn of abuse — and fake “telepathy.” Elizabeth Bonker, right, a self-described “speller” who cannot talk, sits on a federal autism panel. (Arthur Allen/KFF Health News) By Arthur Allen | KFF Health News Elizabeth Bonker is a silent…
A 4-year-old autistic, non-verbal boy was found dead a day after disappearing in Kansas. JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — Police said they found the body of an autistic, non-verbal child a day after he went missing in Kansas. Axel, 4, was reported missing June 5. The Geary County Sheriff’s Office announced a search around 8 p.m. that same day, asking…
A partially deaf Auckland woman has spoken of the devastatin .. A partially deaf Auckland woman has spoken of the devastating moment she discovered the body of 8-year-old Gurshabad Singh in her backyard swimming pool, saying she never heard the autistic schoolboy enter her property before he drowned. Gurshabad died in November last year after escaping…
CUMBERLAND, Ind. (WISH) — A child died early Sunday morning after wandering away from their home and being struck by a car in a hit-and-run incident, police say. According to the Cumberland Metropolitan Police Department, an officer was flagged down around 2:35 a.m. by a passerby in the area of East Washington Street and German…
AI voice of Kazakh singer Zhasulan Bazarbayev’s nonverbal daughter sparks ethics debate / Photo: instagram.com/jbazarbaev, photo editor: Serikzhan Kovlanbayev Zhassulan Bazarbay, a Kazakh singer, became emotional during an interview on Khabar TV after hearing an AI-generated version of his daughter’s voice. The moment left the artist visibly moved, forcing him to pause the broadcast as…
A mother says her son with autism has dealt with a series of incidents at Grandview Elementary she believes the district failed to address. A Rockland County mother says she has spent most of the school year battling the East Ramapo School District over what her son, who has autism, has experienced at Grandview Elementary….
Parents and caregivers have long reported that when some autistic people run a fever from an infection, their autism-related symptoms ease for a while. MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers, backed by $2.1 million in grants from the Marcus Foundation, want to work out the biology behind this “fever effect” and eventually mimic it as a…
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Tinley Fire’s Michelle Boone (center) led an autism awareness t-shirt sale fundraiser, with proceeds going to Advocates of Acceptance, founded by Jeanine Kozlowski (left), and Super Celtics Special Needs Basketball Camp, founded by Jenna Maziur. (Courtesy of Jeanine Kozlowski) TINLEY PARK, IL — A Tinley Park special needs mom and fire department employee seeking to raise…