Autism in sentence

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That is, we exploit the fact that the healthy partner, playing somebody with major depression, or playing somebody with autism spectrum disorder, or playing somebody with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, we use that as a kind of biosensor, and then we use computer programs to model that person, and it gives us a kind of assay of this.

And across the world, every 20 minutes, one new person is diagnosed with autism, and although it's one of the fastest-growing developmental disorders in the world, there is no known cause or cure.

And I cannot remember the first moment I encountered autism, but I cannot recall a day without it.

As we heard from Dr. Insel this morning, psychiatric disorders like autism, depression and schizophrenia take a terrible toll on human suffering.

Now what you need to do, if you're trying to develop a new treatment for autism or Alzheimer's disease or cancer is to find the right shape in that mix that will ultimately provide benefit and will be safe.

Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said, "When parents say, 'I wish my child did not have autism,' what they're really saying is, 'I wish the child I have did not exist and I had a different, nonautistic child instead.' Read that again.

Jini's younger brother Kimong has autism.

I work with children with autism.

Now, many of the problems that children with autism face, they have a common source, and that source is that they find it difficult to understand abstraction, symbolism.

So it's essentially a completely abstract, a completely arbitrary representation of something which is in the real world, and this is something that children with autism have an incredible amount of difficulty with.

So if a child with autism wanted to say, "I want soup," that child would pick three different pictures, "I," "want," and "soup," and they would put these together, and then the therapist or the parent would understand that this is what the kid wants to say.

And I realized something interesting: Avaz helps children with autism learn words.

So there is another hidden abstraction here which children with autism find a lot of difficulty coping with, and that's the fact that you can modify words and you can arrange them to have different meanings, to convey different ideas.

And so after I developed Avaz, I worried for a very long time about how I could give grammar to children with autism.

I happened to chance upon a child with autism conversing with her mom, and this is what happened.

And by putting these two pieces together, the representation and the engine, I was able to create an app, a technology for children with autism, that not only gives them words but also gives them grammar.

So I tried this out with kids with autism, and I found that there was an incredible amount of identification.

So what's interesting about FreeSpeech is that when you create a sentence or when you create language, a child with autism creates language with FreeSpeech, they're not using this support language, they're not using this bridge language.

Is it possible to use FreeSpeech not for children with autism but to teach language to people without disabilities?

This is a photograph of my collaborators, my earliest collaborators when I started working on language and autism and various other things.

"Why did my child develop autism?"

But autism is not a single condition.

That same diagnosis of autism, though, also applies to Gabriel, another 13-year-old boy who has quite a different set of challenges.

Yet both of these boys have the same diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.

One of the things that concerns us is whether or not there really is an epidemic of autism.

These days, one in 88 children will be diagnosed with autism, and the question is, why does this graph look this way?

Or is it because we have now started labeling individuals with autism, simply giving them a diagnosis when they were still present there before yet simply didn't have that label?

And in fact, in the late 1980s, the early 1990s, legislation was passed that actually provided individuals with autism with resources, with access to educational materials that would help them.

With that increased awareness, more parents, more pediatricians, more educators learned to recognize the features of autism.

In addition, we've changed our definition over time, so in fact we've widened the definition of autism, and that accounts for some of the increased prevalence that we see.

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