UW Lecture Series: Coping with Holiday Stress
17 November 2009
Autism 203: Holidays Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 (different room location W3747A, see instructions on back) Instructor: Steve Becker, PhD “Coping with Holiday Stress”
Adults with Autism Inspire Worries and Action
16 November 2009
Each year, tens of thousands of children diagnosed with autism, from mild to severe, enter adulthood and leave the safe confines of schools and their services behind.
Autism Moms Have Stress Similar To Combat Soldiers
11 November 2009
Mothers of adolescents and adults with autism experience chronic stress comparable to combat soldiers and struggle with frequent fatigue and work interruptions, new research finds. These moms also spend significantly more time caregiving than moms of those without disabilities. Researchers followed a group of moms of adolescents and adults with autism for eight days in a row. Moms were interviewed at the end of each day about their experiences and on four of the days researchers measured the moms’ hormone levels to assess their stress.
A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis
11 November 2009
It is one of the most intriguing labels in psychiatry. Children with Asperger’s syndrome, a mild form of autism, are socially awkward and often physically clumsy, but many are verbal prodigies, speaking in complex sentences at early ages, reading newspapers fluently by age 5 or 6 and acquiring expertise in some preferred topic — stegosaurs, clipper ships, Interstate highways — that will astonish adults and bore their playmates to tears.
Twin Study Underscores Role of Genes in Autism
23 October 2009
When one identical twin develops the developmental disorder autism, the risk of the other developing it is high -- substantially higher than it is for fraternal twins, a new study confirms
Mercury Levels Similar in Autism and Normal Children
20 October 2009
Children with autism have mercury levels similar to those of other kids, suggesting the mysterious disorder is caused by a range of factors rather than "a single smoking gun," researchers said on Monday.
New Pfizer Unit to Take on Autism
12 October 2009
Diane Stephenson of Groton has three tangible reasons for wanting to know as much as possible about autism.
University Of Washington & Seattle's Children Center Lecture Series
04 September 2009
Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009 Instructor: Steve Becker, PhD “Sexuality and Relationships”
Alaska State Resources
27 August 2009
A list of organization and state departments to help find information about resources in the state of Alaska. Click the title above to see them all.
Theory of Mind and Perspective
27 August 2009
One of the most difficult things “neurotypical” (a term used by some adults with AS to describe people without AS) educators to understand is the effect of deficits in theory of mind and perspective-taking on the behavior of students with AS. The term “theory of mind” (ToM) was original used in relation to the psychological [...]
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