Take a break and listen to some beautiful songs. www.youtube.com/playlist?list

Your child pobably loves music like many other children with autism. You have also tried to satisfy his musical interest and got disappointed with people’s looks and whispers. Your dream is to take your child to a concert and be able to enjoy listening and participating in a concert without being sigmatized. Watch the video. Please

“A revision to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is proposed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version 5 (DSM-5), which will be released in May 2013.[8] The new diagnosis will encompass current diagnoses of autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, and PDD-NOS. Rather than categorizing these diagnoses, the DSM-5 will adopt a dimensional

Dear Parents, You are working so hard to make your dream come true. Your dream of seeing your child losing her/his autism. Alternatively, your second best dream, to see your child inspite of her/his autism happy, independent, and successful. Most importantly, you work so hard to secure your child’s future, more than any other parents

A new resarch in the Time magazine hinting to a new therapy that didn’t get the chance it deserves to be tested. Some researchers believe that with “time”  some autistic individuals grow out of autism. Deborah Fein lead a research in the University of Connecticut including 34 individuals ranging from 8 to 21 year-old who

A recent research studies both types of connectivities in individuals with ASD. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130114153422.htm

This question keeps relentlessly imposing itself on my mind. To answer this question I decided to ask myself even more questions. 1- When can I talk to my child about her/his condition? At what age? 2- Is sooner better than later? 3- Should I introduce the subject and discuss it as a general topic and

A research that proves once again the importance of early intervention to change the course of the disorder of autism. http://ti.me/Vth7VU Read more about early interverntion: http://bit.ly/M83tEy nadia shanab

A recent research on the impact of traffic air pollution and early childhood autism. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-raj-persaud/traffic-pollution-elevates-autism-chances_b_2485239.html

Today’s Anecdote While so engaged in working with a student on a math assignment I made one of the most common mistakes. I’ve spontaneously used an idiomatic metaphore that I don’t finally regret -at all- having used it. It is up to the reader to tell whether this was a mistake or not. The student