There was a time when I considered Andrew’s arm flapping to be a maladaptive behavior; a piece of the autism puzzle that needed to be solved and put in its place. I worried that those wild flailing ...

Last week, I saw another meme in my Facebook feed castigating parents for forcing their autistic kids to make eye contact and to sit with “quiet hands,” rather than flapping. It’s a common theme in ...

Repetitive motor behaviors such as hand flapping and rocking occur in more than one third of toddlers who do not meet ...