The word “stimming” refers to “self-stimulating behaviour,” one of the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder. When laypeople think of autistic stimming behaviours, they tend to think of ...

People with autism often face a stigma for stimming — a repetitive behavior to regulate emotions that can sometimes look like someone flapping their hands or wiggling their fingers. The children’s ...

Stimming is short for self-stimulation. It means doing the same movement, sound, or action again and again. Many people stim. You might tap your pen, bounce your knee, or twirl your hair. Many parents ...

Jessi Brown said she never wants to stop her kids from being who they are. One mom is making it her mission to champion her kids with autism by sharing and not suppressing their stimming behaviors.

A Buckeye police officer mistook a boy with autism for a drug user when he detained him in July, but the teen's aunt says 14-year-old Connor Leibel was simply "stimming". "Stimming" is repetitive body ...

The word “stimming” refers to “self-stimulating behaviour,” one of the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder. When laypeople think of autistic stimming behaviours, they tend to think of ...

You probably already know that April is Autism Awareness Month. This is because autism is the developmental disability of our time. It’s rapid rise to an occurrence of 1 in 68 has made it an epidemic.

Aimee Grant receives funding from receives funding from UKRI, the Wellcome Trust and the Morgan Advanced Studies Institute. She is a non-executive director of Disability Wales. Stimming – short for ...

Many companies overlook workers with autism. Here’s why they miss out when they do so and what they can do to make sure that autistic employees thrive in the workplace. Companies seek a competitive ...

You probably already know that April is Autism Awareness Month. This is because autism is the developmental disability of our time. It’s rapid rise to an occurrence of 1 in 68 has made it an epidemic.