Autism

New York TimesBy Anahad O'ConnorConnie Anderson didn’t know what was bothering her 17-year-old son, a Baltimore-area high school senior with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. He was usually a diligent student, but his grades began to plummet.“He was starting to go downhill fast,” Ms. An ...

THE IEP: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWWith the school year fast approaching, FACT Oregon has scheduled several IEP trainings throughout the month of August! We are excited to announce that ASO is partnering with FACT Oregon and NWAF on an IEP training in Oregon City on Tues, August 28 from 6-9pm, at 519 15t ...

Sebastian Bludau at Research Centre Juelich in Germany has discovered two new brain areas, Nature News Blog reports.They’re at the very front of the brain, in a region called the frontal pole that we know is involved in such tasks as processing social information and working memory. He has chr ...