Local Author Provides Insight into Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome at age 12
Immediately after Craig Rafail turns off the lights to his son Dyllan's bedroom, the young boy responds, “Dad, why did you turn the dark on?”
Chelation Based on Faulty Premise
The risky treatment for autism that removes metals from patients' bodies is often prompted by results from an uncertain test.
2009 H1N1 Information for Parents who have Children with High-Risk Medical Conditions
This podcast, intended for parents, discusses high-risk medical conditions that put children at risk for flu complications and how to protect children from the flu. Created: 11/25/2009 by National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). Date Released: 11/25/2009. Series Name: CDC Featured Podcasts.
Teaching the ABC’s of Crucial Social Skills
The middle school years, when nothing seems more important or more impossible than fitting in, are rough for nearly everyone. But they are particularly brutal for preteens such as Will Gilbertsen, whose mild autism makes him stand out.
Study: Early Autism Intervention in Toddlers is Effective
Researchers have shown for the first time that if a child is diagnosed with autism as early as 18 months of age, offering the toddler age-appropriate, effective therapy can lead to raised IQ levels and improved language skills and behavior.
Bay Area Mom Creates Online Tool To Tackle Autism
The mother of an autistic child developed an online tool that helps parents track their children's progress and may aid scientists in the search for a solution.
Adults with Autism Inspire Worries and Action
Each year, tens of thousands of children diagnosed with autism, from mild to severe, enter adulthood and leave the safe confines of schools and their services behind.
Autism Moms Have Stress Similar To Combat Soldiers
Mothers of adolescents and adults with autism experience chronic stress comparable to combat soldiers and struggle with frequent fatigue and work interruptions, new research finds. These moms also spend significantly more time caregiving than moms of those without disabilities. Researchers followed a group of moms of adolescents and adults with autism for eight days in a row. Moms were interviewed at the end of each day about their experiences and on four of the days researchers measured the moms’ hormone levels to assess their stress.
A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis
It is one of the most intriguing labels in psychiatry. Children with Asperger’s syndrome, a mild form of autism, are socially awkward and often physically clumsy, but many are verbal prodigies, speaking in complex sentences at early ages, reading newspapers fluently by age 5 or 6 and acquiring expertise in some preferred topic — stegosaurs, clipper ships, Interstate highways — that will astonish adults and bore their playmates to tears.
Twin Study Underscores Role of Genes in Autism
When one identical twin develops the developmental disorder autism, the risk of the other developing it is high -- substantially higher than it is for fraternal twins, a new study confirms
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