What is it really like to grow up as a young woman with Asperger Syndrome? Olley Edwards, a UK born actress, model and mother to three young girls decided to use her own experiences to help others. Olley, herself has Asperger Syndrome and two of her daughters are on the autistic spectrum. Honey was diagnosed with Aspergers at age 6 and Cherish with Autism at age 2. Olley recently published her book ‘Why Aren’t Normal People Normal? A Girl’s Survival Guide To Growing Up With A

According to an opinion article written by Laura Geggel in the Simons Foundation Autism Research initiative over 70pc of autism research studies do not record the ethnicities of their subjects. She bases her opinion piece on a review was published in Journal of Developmental Disorders on February 4, and argues that ignoring the ethnicity of the children used as primary test subjects in research could mean that some vital trends or patterns could be missed, and correlations c

Find your local Day of Mourning vigil site February 21, 2017 In the past five years, over four hundred people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents, relatives or caregivers. On Wednesday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the nation to remember these disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. In the year since our last vigil, our community has lost 100 more people to filicide. These are j