Employment may improve autism symptoms
Adults with ASD who work in situations with inclusiveness and interaction tend to have measurable improvements in behavior and daily living skills....
read moreAutism risk increased with hospital-diagnosed maternal infections...
A Kaiser Permanente study has found that pregnant women who are diagnosed with a bacterial infection in a hospital have a greater risk of giving birth to a child who develops ASD....
read moreSense of sound and sight separated in children with autism
A new study from Vanderbilt indicates that children with ASD have difficulty integrating sound and sight, which may make it harder to develop social and communication skills....
read moreStudy says antidepressants don’t increase risk of autism...
A Danish study looked at a mother’s use of SSRIs during pregnancy and her child’s risk of having autism and found no correlation. This was a large study. Some 600,000 children were followed to track results....
read moreNon-verbal learning disability looks different than autism in brain...
Researchers have discovered evidence that the brains of children with NVLD actually develop differently than other children, even those with HFA....
read moreScientists map autism-risk genes by function
Neuroscientists from UCLA have mapped groups of autism-risk genes by function. This will help determine when and where they affect early brain development....
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