By Shaun Heasley

Many children with autism are more capable academically than their IQ scores would suggest, researchers say, a finding that could have implications for the school supports they receive. Continue Reading

By Linda Loyd, Inquirer Staff Writer

At 8 p.m. Saturday, Southwest Airlines Flight 2149 was poised to push back from the gate. Flight attendants gave fasten-seat-belt instructions, and First Officer Peter Hayes announced, “There’s 25 minutes of flight time until we touch down in Philadelphia.” Continue Reading

MONDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News)

Poor handwriting among children with autism tends to persist well into the teen years, a new study finds.

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/645891.html

By PAM G. DOWNING/Special to the Herald

Tyler Cox is a first-grader at Pullam Elementary School in Brownsville. He has classic autism and has been going to school since he was 3 years old. Tyler rarely speaks and when he does it is often in very low monotone sounds.  Continue Reading

Raising children with autism can be challenging, but a local woman teamed up with a friend to write a book that is helping parents worldwide. Continue Reading

By Julie Steenhuysen

(Reuters) – Too many connections in the frontal lobe of the brain may help explain some of the learning problems experienced by people with autism, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A279H20101103

By SUSAN DOMINUS

Thursday, for Jennifer Choi, is the day of rest, a much-anticipated Sabbath that comes and goes all too soon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/nyregion/02bigcity.html?ref=todayspaper

SACRAMENTO — In the three years since her son Diego was given a diagnosis of autism at age 2, Carmen Aguilar has made countless contributions to research on this perplexing disorder.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/health/02autism.html

By Shaun Heasley, disabilityscoop website

Vaccination rates among children covered by private health insurers are on the decline and worries about a link between autism and immunizations could be to blame, a new report indicates.

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2010/10/14/autism-drop-vaccination/10697/

BY LAURA D’ONOFRIO

The Item of Millburn and Short Hills

Emergency situations can be precarious for anyone involved. But imagine dealing with someone who doesn’t respond to their name or doesn’t respond at all. There is a chance he or she is a person with autism. Continue Reading