For a long time, many classrooms operated on an unspoken assumption: if you teach to the group, most students will figure out the rest on their own. For autistic students and students with ADHD, that assumption has caused a lot of unnecessary struggle. A 2026 review...
Last week, my youngest suggested we see a high school play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, because a friend of hers was in it. I had read the 2003 book when it came out, and I had forgotten most of the story. I remember it started with a bit of a...
Ever heard the phrase “It takes a village”? This quote could not be any truer, especially when considering autism. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder, a diverse manifestation of human experience, an identity, a strength, and often a challenge. When these...
Parents of children on the autism spectrum hear a lot about what their children “should” be doing socially. But according to Michigan State University’s Barbara Thompson, autistic children are not simply failing to process social information; they may be processing it...
Adhara Pérez Sánchez. Photo © 2024 Nuestro Stories..She was told she'd never fit in. Now she's aiming for Mars. The Latin phrase "ad astra per aspera" means "to the stars through struggle." It means that building resilience and overcoming challenges are necessary for...
If you've ever fallen down a rabbit hole of TikTok videos about ADHD, stumbled across an autism "awareness" post on Instagram, or asked an AI chatbot whether you might be dyslexic, you're not alone. Millions of people turn to the Internet every day looking for answers...
Armani Williams. Photo © Team Reaume..Armani Williams is proof that autism doesn't have to slow you down. Moving at speeds of nearly 200 miles per hour, there is no room for a wandering mind. For Williams, the first openly autistic driver in NASCAR, this high-stakes...
When most people think about helping someone learn, they picture teaching—explaining, guiding, correcting. But what if learning doesn’t start with teaching at all? Research shows that we learn through play, especially in early childhood. We also need to feel safe and...
Stories teach us how to see each other. When we watch a character struggle, laugh, love, or succeed, we carry something of that character with us into the real world. For the roughly 1 in 36 children in the United States diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, and...
If you have an autistic teenager or young adult, you may have seen them struggle to find employment, even if they are college graduates. You would think these problems were a thing of the past, especially given DEI initiatives and the many tech company billionaires...
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