Autism Science Foundation

That didn’t take long. RFK wants to be White House Health Czar. The Autism Science Foundation will continue to serve as a voice for scientific truth, as we do in this article and as we will in the many more likely to follow. https://lnkd.in/ehhXPwsd

ASF is on the move in #Canada. Last week, Alycia Halladay spoke at the @Geneva_Centre in Toronto about the science of #profound autism. Thank you to all who attending and shared their insights and experiences.

Saturday the 3rd was a great day for music at @worldcafelive! #Sharethestage was a complete success with dozens of musicians and almost 200 attendees. Thank you to the Bak family, all of the amazing volunteers, @MusicianImmpossible, the sponsors and family members who supported these amazing artists. You can watch it on the live stream here, and enjoy some of the photos which captured the excitement of the day: https://lnkd.in/ek2KUurn

Despite many years fighting it, families with autism still experience societal #stigma. The experiences depend on many factors, summarized in the October 21st#ASpodcast. This week, @MiaKotikovski explores cultural factors involved in stigma. As examples, she explores the literature from Asia, the Middle East and the United Kingdom, how they are different, and how families cope with that stigma in different areas of the world. https://lnkd.in/ekAnfHSU

Our Share the Stage Event in Philadelphia is sold out! The next best thing to being there live is watching the livestream. Make a plan to join us from wherever you may be on Saturday 11AM eastern. Link here: https://lnkd.in/eVufN4yj

Our Share the Stage Event in Philadelphia is sold out! The next best thing to being there live is watching the livestream. Make a plan to join us from wherever you may be on Saturday 11AM eastern. Link here: https://lnkd.in/eVufN4yj

The group of neurodiverse musicians who will be performing at Share the Stage at @WorldCafeLive have been rehearsing and getting ready for a great afternoon of music. Please join us! https://lnkd.in/exkMUy8R

#hotoffthepress and #openaccess. @GiacomoVivanti from @Drexel summarizes challenges in designing and implementing evidence-based interventions for autism. These include the marginalization in research for those with #profoundautism. He states: "Notably, the response from the workshop participants focused not so much on deploring the lack of services available to my brothers, but on questioning the reality of their impairments. This included the suggestion that my brothers chose not to use spoken language because they were misunderstood or abused from neurotypical family members, that their “apparent” communication and cognitive disabilities resulted from the double-empathy problem, whereby other autistics would be perfectly equipped, unlike their family members, to understand and address their needs, and finally, if their intellectual or language challenges were real, then their problem was not “the autism”, but unrelated cognitive and language impairments. This episode, offered here as an example for what has become a common experience, deserves a closer examination because it gives insight on the challenges of redressing the escalating trend towards unequal representation of profound autism in research." https://lnkd.in/gNGPcRiq

Model systems for psychiatric disorders have led to discoveries that have helped millions with psychiatric disorders and conditions from ADHD to schizophrenia. However, there has been some backlash about their use in autism. Why? This week's #ASFpodcast is a conversation with @JillSilverman from @UCDavis about the importance of model systems in research and scientific discovery. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gGw5ez5K

#sharethestage is only a week way! Join us at @worldcafelive for an afternoon of music with talented neurodiverse musicians. Tickets are going fast, buy yours now! https://lnkd.in/exkMUy8R