Hi, friends! Couple of publication updates this month: I’ve got an essay, “Women Alone,” out in the Summer 2026 issue of Wordgathering. It’s about autism and loneliness and …

When I read that three former employees from Greensburg Salem School District's Nicely Elementary School pleaded guilty and received only probation for abusing disabled students, my heart sank. This w...

So I see… a lot of complaints lately about the state of the online autism community and the quality of the information and discourse being shared these days, from…pretty much everyone. And I do thi…

So I see… a lot of complaints lately about the state of the online autism community and the quality of the information and discourse being shared these days, from…pretty much everyone. And I do thi…

So it’s been a little while since I wrote a “hey, parents of autistic kids!” post, but I’ve been seeing viral social media posts and even headlines like this from time to time lately, and I think w…

TURNOUT Sunday coordinates civic engagement and public policy information sharing among denominational and independent church leaders facilitated through the Skinner Leadership Institute and the Natio...

[I've been asked to put a disclaimer on this post letting people know that they can repost it as part of the blogaround on the subject of th...

Emily Paige Ballou is an old Millennial, Off-Broadway stage manager, hiker, and stationery junkie. She has work forthcoming in the Champagne Room and blogs at chavisory.wordpress.com.

Unmasking Autism meets Notes on Being a Man in this one-of-a-kind reimagining of contemporary masculinity in the autism community.Society’s definition of m...

Dear Senator Gillibrand, I received your New York Minute e-mail on July 3 which included NBC’s recent story1 regarding your efforts to ensure that ABA is covered by the Department of Defense as a b…

By Emily Paige Ballou | My guess is that if you have a child or family member on the autism spectrum or have been involved with the special education system or disability services as a professional…

With the recent announcement of the Trump administration’s plan to shift certain functions of the Department of Education, including that of oversight of disability education, into the Department o…