Autistic in a sentence

A musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.

Shelley Farnham set up her own business to support autistic children after noticing professionals looking after her autistic son were not getting to the bottom of his problems at school.

When the BBC medical drama wanted to cast an autistic actor to play an autistic character – possibly a first in TV history – Access sent Jules to audition.

Autism can also often remain invisible to medical professionals, who, under the influence of old stereotypes, tend not to see a person's autistic traits as they can be hidden because of autistic "masking".

Looking at the numbers, though, research exploring how to help autistic people navigate everyday life — the research many autistic people say they’d like to see — is still only getting about a quarter of the money allocated for autism research in the US.

Shamira Coye a teacher at the school and the parent of an autistic child spoke on the importance of parental support for autistic children and gave a special message to parents.

In the Embedded Figures Test, in which subjects have to find a target shape within a larger design, autistic people, both children and adults, perform faster and more accurately than non-autistic (“neurotypical”) people.

An autistic family boards a Delta Airlines CRJ-200 50-seat plane during the ‘Wings for All’ experience for autistic passengers at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport on Saturday evening.

If you are autistic, you are autistic for life; autism is not an illness or disease and cannot be cure.

The event will give autistic adults the chance to meet with other autistic adults, with tea and biscuits also available.

The National Autistic Society wants to find exceptional people, schools and services making a huge difference to autistic children and adults and their families.

Autism is a spectrum condition, approximately 1 in every 100 of us are autistic and it will mean something different to every autistic individual that you speak to.

So I put the question to many of the experts and autistic people I interviewed for the book: when should you tell a child they are autistic?

There is no amount of personal industry, vocabulary acquisition, nor any other attribute or trait, learned or innate, that will cause an autistic person to stop being autistic.

The percentage of autistic individuals who also meet criteria for intellectual disability has been reported as anywhere from 25% to 70%, a wide variation illustrating the difficulty of assessing autistic intelligence.

A father whose autistic son was killed as they both tried to flee the scene of a motorway crash on foot has “torn the family apart” with his “selfishness”, the boy’s heartbroken mother has said.

Ambitious about Autism is the national charity standing with autistic children and young people.

And autistic children should not receive harsh punishment for undesirable new behavior.

A new study suggests that the true number of autistic people in England may be more than double the official figure cited in national health policy documents.

A non-speaking autistic person may also feel challenged in understanding and responding to verbal instructions.