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Stigmatization of autism can also be perpetuated by advertising from autism conversion organizations, such as Autism Speaks' advertising wherein a mother describes having considered murder-suicide in front of her autistic daughter or the NYU Child Study Center's advertisements where autism is personified as a kidnapper holding children for ransom.
A Macon business owner selling natural soap has found a unique way to make his shop a vehicle for good deeds. Joshua Hess founded The Sassy Alpaca in 2019, a store that offers 100% natural soap.
Examples of these applications include: managing behavior of children in school settings; enhancing the abilities, and choices of children and adults with different kinds of disabilities; training animals; and augmenting the performance and satisfaction of employees in organizations and businesses. [3]
Autism advocacy made progress within the traditional media, making its way into influential business publications such as Harvard Business Review [50] [51] and Fast Company. [52] A comprehensive approach to inclusion in the workplace, the Canary Code, was developed in 2022 by Ludmila Praslova, specifically focusing on autistic talent and other ...
Disintermediation (development of employment platforms) is opening up new ways of organizing work, [62] of objectifying and valuing skills, making it possible to explore a number of experiments better suited to people with disabilities, [63] and in particular to the profile of people with autism. For example, telecommuting jobs are likely to ...
Donald Gray Triplett (September 8, 1933 – June 15, 2023) was an American banker known for being the first person diagnosed with autism. [1] He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner in 1943 and was labeled as "Case 1".
A 2021 pilot study found the mean number of current special interests reported was nine. [16] Intense special interests were written about by French psychiatrist Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol in 1827. [17] They were tied to a condition today considered autism by Soviet child psychiatrist Grunya Sukhareva (Груня Сухарева) in 1925.
Michelle Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, also known as Cedillo, was a court case involving the family of Michelle Cedillo, an autistic girl whose parents sued the United States government because they believed that her autism was caused by her receipt of both the measles-mumps-and-rubella vaccine (also known as the MMR vaccine) and thimerosal-containing vaccines.