Diagnosed with Autism at the Age of 2, This 14-Year Old Boy Was Told That He Would Never Learn to Read. Now He's a Graduate Student in Quantum Physics.

Therapists didn't think much of Jacob Barnett's future. But his mother saw him demonstrate a prodigious memory, pattern recognition skills and an intuitive grasp of astrophysics:One day, his mom took him stargazing. A fe...

http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/10/Diagnosed-with-Autism-at-the-Age-of-2-This-Boy-Was-Told-That-He-Would-Never-Learn-to-Read-Now-Hes-a-Graduate-Student-in-Quantum-Physics/

"Quiet Santas" Serve Kids with Special Needs...

Spending a few minutes with Santa at a mall or a C... ...eat joy for young children. But for children with autism , a busy setting with bright lights and loud noise...

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/16/Quiet-Santas-Serve-Kids-with-Special-Needs/

The New Face of Autism Therapy

This is Bandit, a robot specially designed by a te... .... Yet there is increasing evidence that kids with autism respond more naturally to machines than they do t... ...ychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, the director of the Autism Research Center at the University of Cambridge in... ...versity of Cambridge in Eng...

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/29/The-New-Face-of-Autism-Therapy/

Are Geeky Couples More Likely to Have Kids with Autism?

What is a geek? For many people the term is perjor... ...s. But what the hey does this all have to do with autism ? That's what researchers Simon Baron-Cohen and Sa... ...re more likely to have children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Most revealing were statistics... ...upations:12.5 percent of f...

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/09/Are-Geeky-Couples-More-Likely-to-Have-Kids-with-Autism/

The Autism Epidemic

The CDC estimated that rate of autism for 8-year-olds in the United States is one in 88... ...in 88 children. Why are there so many people with autism today? Consider that no one was autistic before 1... ...nosis had “threatens to become a fashion.” Is autism over-diagnose...

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/13/the-autism-epidemic/

Williams Syndrome: The Super-Social Genetic Disorder...

To 7-year-old twins Tristan and... ...s think that this may be the key to understanding autism : Williams syndrome is the perfec...

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/25/williams-syndrome-the-super-social-genetic-disorder/

High Tech Specs May Change The Way We See The World...

Imagine glasses that can read body language and offer suggestions about how you should respond, or goggles which can scan faces and call up criminal databases to find a real time match. These snazzy high tech specs aren'...

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/07/high-tech-specs-may-change-the-way-we-see-the-world/

Probo the Robot...

(YouTube link) Scientists at Vrije University in Brussels, Belgium have developed a robot that looks like a cartoon elephant. Probo has fully articulate features and a flexible trunk that can display a variety of resp...

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/11/probo-the-robot/

Four Radical Cures on the Frontiers of Medicine...

Popular Science has an article describing medi... ...blic in a few years. One is an effort to reverse autism : While studying mice, he learned that the dise... ...could be a first step to treating other causes of autism .[...] Fragile X neurons lack the ability to mu...

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/02/four-radical-cures-on-the-frontiers-of-medicine/

Ten Year Old Bonds With Elephants...

Winston in southern Oregon is where many tourists stop on their journeys north and south along Interstate 5; it's where Wildlife Safari is. Recently the park acquired some help in the form of Wylie Malek, an autistic y...

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/26/ten-year-old-bonds-with-elephants/

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