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Each individual may experience the overlap between anxiety and autism differently. Researchers delve into these issues.
Consult the research on destructive behaviours, repetitive behaviours, insistence on sameness issues and more.
Multiple studies confirm an overlap between autism and gender diversity. Find out more here.
Carol Turkington presents this as “Any behavior that damages the person’s own tissues, such as that which causes bruises, redness, and open wounds”. What can be done to better understand it, prevent it or treat it?
Overwhelming sensations due to external input are a chief complaint of autistic people. Various phenotypes are the topic of research.
Autistic adults are at a much higher risk of suicide than neurotypical people. Consult the latest research here.
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Since 2005, ACT has devoted much of our energy into organizing our online resources to be accessible to B.C.’s large autism and diverse needs community – wherever they live. Families, and the community professionals who support them, use our comprehensive range of evidence-informed information, as well as links to local resources from dentists to horseback riding, 24/7, 365 days a year.
While ACT’s expertise is in the area of autism, autism is rarely ‘just autism’, so we have gathered information, relevant across the lifespan, that can be keyword searched, including information on other diverse needs and in multiple languages.
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