Oversimplification:The puzzle piece, with its connotation of missing or incomplete parts, implies that autistic people are somehow incomplete or broken. Medicalization: The puzzle piece symbolizes ...

Long associated with autism, new research is questioning whether or not the ubiquitous puzzle piece serves as a pro or con for organizations tied to the developmental disorder. Dating to at least the ...

Our middle son was our first child to be diagnosed with autism. He was 4 at the time (2011), but we knew long before that. At the time, there was little information on the internet that we found to be ...

Nearly 70 years after autism was first described, one key question about the neurological disorder remains unanswered: What causes it. “It’s the still-unanswered smoking gun question,” said ...

Missing piece surfaces in the puzzle of autism Date: August 4, 2015 Source: CNRS Summary: A new gene that plays a crucial role during early development in humans and whose under-expression may ...

CHESAPEAKE Sometimes the pieces fit perfectly. Throughout high school, Derek Spohn dabbled with puzzles. The ones with 1,000 to 1,500 pieces. They were pretty easy, he said, because for years he ha… ...

Autism affects 1 in 68 children. That’s a number that’s talked about a lot in the media and in the scientific community as well. With more children being diagnosed, more families are in need of ...

Adult autism in women presents unique ... They spend decades being labeled “sensitive,” “dramatic,” or “too much,” without realizing that the missing puzzle piece has been there ...

A study carried out by the Laboratoire Neurobiologie des Interactions Cellulaires et Neurophysiopathologie (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université), in collaboration with clinicians from Marseilles ...