MARTHA HALLORAN IS 26 YEARS OLD, AND SHE’S BEEN PART OF THE NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP FOR MOST OF HER LIFE. WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO ON FRIDAYS AND ON TUESDAYS? WARREN CHILL. VOLUNTEERING. YOU GOT IT.

The local nonprofit LifeWorks for Autism is expanding to commuters its postsecondary academy: a two-year program that aims to help young autistic adults live independently. Since fall 2020, LifeWorks ...

BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Though it was winter vacation, 17-year-old Yangyang started his day early, walked to the supermarket on his own and returned home to whip up a bowl of seafood noodles for ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Autism Foundation of Oklahoma (AFO) has received a grant to support social programming for neurodivergent adults in Oklahoma City. According to AFO, the grant from Expand ...

For years the treatment of autism has been dominated by a single treatment modality called applied behavioral analysis (ABA). ABA is a treatment modality that was designed for children in the early ...

Many of the autistic adult clients who come to my organization for coaching didn’t know they were autistic until their 20s, 30s, 40s or even later. For most of them, learning they are autistic later ...

Restricted and repetitive behaviors, along with strong preferences for sameness in both behavior and environment, are noted as hallmark features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Structured routines ...