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Pregnancy & Baby Index: Parenting: Special Needs: Autistic Spectrum Disorders
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All about Autism Researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are trying to understand autism: what it is, what causes it, how to diagnose it, how to treat it. Autism is very com
Autism linked to mirror neuron dysfunction Findings may lead to early diagnosis of the disorder and possible therapies
Autism problems explained in new research New research from Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute helps to explain why children with autism spectrum disorders (autism) have problem-solving difficulties.
Birth factors associated with risk for autism Prenatal environmental factors and parental mental health may be associated with a risk of autism, according to an analysis conducted by researchers at the Aarhus University in Denmark, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Centers
Could a big head mean autism? An accelerated rate of brain growth in infants may be an early warning sign of risk for autism. Find out more about the latest research here.
Early diagnosis of autism Autism conference reports advances in early diagnosis, role of immune system, genes and environmental influences
Early signs of autism discovered in a woman's diary A meticulous diary kept by a mother of twins has revealed indicators of autistic behaviour in children as young as six months of age. The findings are published today in Neurocase .
Free consultation for parents raising kids with autism The Sheffield, Massachusetts-based Autism Treatment Center of America is offering a free 25-minute phone consultation for
parents seeking help and guidance in raising a child with autism.
Ideas on Autism: Building sensory communication with your child Would you let a stranger spend several hours with your child, communicating values, distracting them from homework, creating separation and distance from family? Even worse, would you let a stranger into your child's bedroom?
Immunizations: knowledge is power Do the benefits of vaccinating a healthy American child outweigh the risks?
Mother Nurture: Physical boosts for a child's mood and behavior Parenting is a lot of work! But to be the best parents we can be, we have to take time to nurture ourselves as the people we are outside of being Mom or Dad. Psychologist Rick Hanson, PhD, and acupuncturist & nutritionist Jan Hanson, MS, authors
New model may better predict outcomes for children with autism and autistic spectrum disorders Classification tool may better describe autism-related disorders, help evaluate treatments.
Parents reading to children with special needs just as important as reading to others, expert says The picture was rather simple – a close-in shot of a little boy's face focused intently on something out of the picture, nestled in the neck of a smiling mother. But to 4-year-old Austin Coburn, the photograph symbolized something much more specific
Parents' vaccine concerns on the rise The doctors who treat America's children are hearing more and more concerns from their patients' parents about vaccines, and occasionally encountering parents who refuse some or all recommended vaccines for their children, according to a newly publis
Researchers find brain overgrowth during first year of life in autism Small head circumference at birth, followed by a sudden and excessive increase in head circumference during the first year of life, has been linked to development of autism by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Me
Specific behaviors seen in infants can predict autism, new research shows Canadian researchers have become the first to pinpoint specific behavioral signs in infants as young as 12 months that can predict, with remarkable accuracy, whether a child will develop autism.
What is auditory processing disorder? Auditory processing is the term used to describe what happens when your brain recognizes and interprets the sounds around you. Humans hear when energy that we recognize as sound travels through the ear and is changed into electrical information that
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