Sun, 13 May 2007 03:16:26 +0100
by Autism @ Sun, 13 May 2007 03:16:26 +0100
I am the mother of a 20-year-old with autism. Her differences, however, do not require me to be so selfish as to want other parents to have children with a disability so that there is no impact on my daughter’s future. ...
Sat, 12 May 2007 03:36:47 +0100
by Autism @ Sat, 12 May 2007 03:36:47 +0100
Until recently, only 5–10% of autism cases were traceable to an underlying genetic cause. Two studies now change this. Jacquemont et al.1 and Sebat et al.2 suggest that this number is actually 10–20%, and it may grow to 30–40% with ...
Fri, 11 May 2007 03:35:09 +0100
by Autism @ Fri, 11 May 2007 03:35:09 +0100
I tend to shy away from discussing autism in conjunction with mental health because of the history of autism: Autism was once seen as a psychogenic disorder caused by the bad parenting of “refrigerator mothers,” and the work of the ...
Thu, 10 May 2007 03:18:43 +0100
by Autism @ Thu, 10 May 2007 03:18:43 +0100
In a report to be presented May 5 at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Seatlle, researchers from UCLA will show that children with autism can’t do this. They hear and they see, of course, but the areas of the brain that ...
Wed, 9 May 2007 03:25:25 +0100
by Autism @ Wed, 9 May 2007 03:25:25 +0100
It's been well publicized recently that the rates of autism among American kids has risen sharply in the last few decades. The CDC has said that the rate of autism has reached 1 in every 150 kids in this country recently, and even fours ...
Tue, 8 May 2007 03:19:11 +0100
by Autism @ Tue, 8 May 2007 03:19:11 +0100
Not surprisingly, these bewildering increases have led many researchers and educators to refer to an autism"epidemic." Representative Dan Burton of Indiana also declared in 2001 that "we have an epidemic on our hands. ...
Mon, 7 May 2007 03:38:28 +0100
by Autism @ Mon, 7 May 2007 03:38:28 +0100
They represent a small fraction; most children with autism don't excel any any particular area, they are average, normal kids - but they lack the ability to interact, socialize, communicate. Quinn, the adorable boy in the video above ...
Sun, 6 May 2007 03:33:07 +0100
by Autism @ Sun, 6 May 2007 03:33:07 +0100
If we lived in God’s economy, this is how we would get the word that someone in our lives has been given an autism diagnosis. As it stands we live in the world’s economy and an autism diagnosis is typically met with fallen hopes, ...
Sat, 5 May 2007 03:31:09 +0100
by Autism @ Sat, 5 May 2007 03:31:09 +0100
Wendy Fournier is the president of the National Autism Association. She joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about her own family’s experience with autism as well as the latest research. ...
Fri, 4 May 2007 03:46:10 +0100
by Autism @ Fri, 4 May 2007 03:46:10 +0100
If your child has been diagnosed for autism and if the reason is not from physical causes, then an autism diet can be of certain help. There is a popular belief that there is a link or relation between autism symptoms and food allergies ...
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