How Satoshi Tajiri’s autism helped create Pokemon
Is Satoshi Tajiri autistic? Satoshi has gone on record saying that he wanted the games to give children the same joy as he had…
The Art of Autism: honoring World Peace Day with art & poetry (2016)
By Keri Bowers In sharing poems & art for peace throughout the month of September, we support the belief that peace begins within each…
A Woman to Be Reckoned With: The Controversial Legacy of Suzanne Wright
by Amy Gravino I first met Suzanne Wright in New York at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh, just before I spoke at the United…
University of Chicago statement on trigger warnings and intellectual “safe places”
A trigger warning is a statement at a beginning of a piece of writing that tells the reader there may be potentially distressing material…
Letters between a non-speaking autistic and apraxic boy and his neurotypical therapist
“I am a 10 year old boy trapped in a body that does not follow my instructions. I am a boy with the same…
How emotional and somatic balancing techniques helped my autism
“I was existing, floating, drifting in my own bubble and couldn’t get out. Sometimes it felt like everybody else was in a bubble and…
Program Spotlight: Helping Hands Art & Exercise Program
New Jersey program serves autistic teens and adults by Colleen Hordichuk, Art Therapist Nine years ago, I joined the staff of my local high…