Purdue University

Apps may open communication door for children, families affected by severe, non-verbal autism

Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...
Purdue University

Purdue-based startup wins R&D 100 Award for app to increase communication in children, families affected by severe, nonverbal autism

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – SPEAK MODalities, a Purdue-affiliated startup commercializing technology that helps communication and language development for children and families affected by severe, ...
Yahoo

Man with Severe Autism Was Told He Would Never Understand Language. Now, He’s a Published Author and College Grad

A California man with severe autism, whose family was told he would never understand language, has just published his first book. Woody Brown was diagnosed with autism when he was a toddler. Doctors ...

A Louisville mother hid a camera in her son’s locs. Now, she’s fighting for answers

Tiphanee Lee says she placed a recording device in her 7-year-old’s locs after growing concerned about how the nonverbal autistic ...
Newsweek

I Have a Child With Severe Autism. RFK Jr. Gets One Thing Right About It | Opinion

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last Wednesday, the health and human services secretary made reference ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

'I love you, mom': Keyboard lets son share words local mother never thought she'd hear

MILFORD, Ohio (WKRC) - A simple keyboard is giving a local young man a voice he has never had. Jakob Jordan, 24, has nonverbal, severe autism and apraxia, making it difficult for him to speak and ...
The New York Times

Facing the Realities of Severe Autism

Readers react to a woman’s account of raising her autistic child. To the Editor: Re “Kennedy Described My Daughter’s Reality,” by Emily May (Opinion guest essay, April 27): Ms. May said what too many ...
Yahoo

Groundbreaking study claims severe autism can be reversed. Experts say it's 'deeply insulting'

A groundbreaking study that claims its subjects had their autism reversed through dietary and therapeutical interventions has been blasted by advocacy groups and experts on the neurodiverse condition ...
NBC Connecticut

Nonprofit focused on teens with severe autism partners with boxing coach

New Haven nonprofit Legacy Developmental Services is actively working to develop more options for teens and young adults with severe autism. Legacy Developmental Services was founded by Brenda Moore ...
Wall Street Journal

Don’t Forget Americans With Severe Autism

I don’t begrudge Bill Gates’s musings that he would have been put on the autism spectrum if he were a child today. Yet as a parent of a young adult who is nonverbal with severe autism, I’d like to ...
MM&M

RFK Jr. exaggerates share of autistic population with severe limitations

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a news conference on April 22. Credit: Getty Images / Andrew Harnik Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Teacher knocked out special needs students with melatonin at the start of each day, causing severe nosebleeds and loss of motor functioning: Suit

A Maryland public school teacher secretly fed her special needs students melatonin at the start of each day, a lawsuit claims — alleging that her "entire class was found sleeping" multiple times. The ...