Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times HBO’s critically acclaimed “Temple Grandin” told the remarkable real-life story of the bestselling author and groundbreaking agricultural scientist who struggled early in life to learn to cope with autism before the disease was widely known. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-emmy-temple-20100830,0,5812073.story
Source: National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders The Autism Internet Modules (AIM) Web site, hosted by the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence (OCALI), has posted a number of new AIM modules, including: Antecedent-Based Interventions, Computer Aided Instruction, Functional Communication Training, Naturalistic Interventions, Parent Implemented Interventions, Prompting, Reinforcement, Response Interruption/Redirection, Self-Management, Task [...]
guardian.co.uk A Leeds man is championing equality for people with autism – after successfully setting up his own independent enterprise in the city.Luke Aylward, 25 from Swarcliffe, struggled for three and a half years to find employment after graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Lincoln in 2006.
By PAM G. DOWNING/Special to the Brownsville Herald Another school year was about to begin. The teacher and all her students were moving to a brand new school. That meant new surroundings, a different classroom, different students and new teachers.For many children, a change like this would be a bit scary in even the best [...]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8/20/10 Researchers at Georgia Tech hope to create an inexpensive, computerized early warning system for young children who have autism.
The world’s largest genetic scan of people with autism in their families has found that many patients have their own unique pattern of genetic mutations, not necessarily inherited.
By SHIRLEY S. WANG By taking scans of sleeping children, researchers are discovering what occurs in the brains of babies and young children with autism.Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to peer at images of the children’s brains, researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found that autistic children as young as 14 [...]
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There is something obviously wrong in the brains of people with autism, and one of the chief symptoms of that is the difficulty they have in understanding other people’s emotions and intentions.But exactly what causes that social awkwardness is still being debated among neuroscientists — and the debate only got [...]
By Jenifer Goodwin HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) — Infections during infancy or childhood do not seem to raise the risk of autism, new research finds.
The MIND Institute at UC Davis is enrolling participants in clinical trials for an autism treatment developed by Curemark LLC, a drug research and development company in Rye, N.Y.
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