Beginning a new school year for children with autism

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 [...]

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Tech hopes to develop early warning tools, and treatments, for autism

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.

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Scientists find autism has complex genetic roots

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.

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Scanning Babies for Autism

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 [...]

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Study challenges one view of autism

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 [...]

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No Link Between Childhood Infections, Autism

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.

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MIND Institute starts clinical trial for autism

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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Five Appointed To Federal Autism Research Committee

A self-advocate and Autism Speaks’ chief science officer are among the latest appointees to a federal committee tasked with guiding autism research priorities.

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Nutritional risks of picky eating may be higher in autism

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many kids are picky eaters but new research suggests the trait is even more common in autistic children who tend to refuse more foods and are more likely to restrict their diets to a smaller variety of foods than other children.

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Play improves social skills in kids with autism

SARAH WHYTE CHILDREN with autism who attend weekly playgroups have improved development and social skills, a study has found, supporting the inclusion of children with autism into mainstream education.

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