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If you recall, we have discussed how it takes time to build a good research organization. A long time. As an example, we looked at the MIND Institute at UC Davis, which by publication record seems to be still building 10 years after it was founded.
The MIND Institute is thought by many in the autism [...]
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Results of an early study suggest that dairy-free diets and unconventional food preferences could put boys with autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at higher than normal risk for thinner, less dense bones when compared to a group of boys the same age who do not have autism. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
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The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders has published a study about thin bones in boys with autism spectrum disorders by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Researchers x-rayed the hands of 75 autistic boys who are between the ages of 4-8 and found that, compared to [...]
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Pediatricians give their verdict on the premier episode of "Eli Stone." (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
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Results of an early study suggest that dairy-free diets and unconventional
food preferences could put boys with autism and autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) at higher than normal risk for thinner, less dense
bones when compared to a group of boys the same age who do not
have autism. The study, by researchers from the National Institutes of Health
and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, was published
online in the "Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders" (Source: National Institutes of Health (N
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Recent research conducted at the University of Haifa found that children with autism improved their road safety skills after practicing with a unique virtual reality system. "Children with autism rarely have opportunities to experience or to learn to cope with day-to-day situations. Using virtual simulations such as the one used in this research enables them to acquire skills that will make it possible for them to become independent," said Profs.
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The independence of children with autism depends on their receiving treatment in natural settings. One of the main problems they face is their inability to learn how to safely cross the street, a necessary skill for independent living. While acquiring this skill could greatly improve these children's independence, most of the methods for teaching street-crossing have been designed for use within the classroom, and they have been shown as insufficiently effective among autistic children.
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This “Eli Stone” thing just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser, if not just a bit zany.
“Eli Stone”ABC’s new legal drama, set to premier on January 31st, this Thursday and the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) has sent ABC a letter asking the network to cancel such a “reckless” show. The January 28th New York Times [...]
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The premiere episode of Eli Stone, in which a mother wins a $5.2 million lawsuit charging her son got autism from a vaccine, ... (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
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The good Mr. Olmsted has somehow decided that he has the moral high ground to call Parade Magazine “lazy”
While discussing the recent article on Autism, he complained that they used pictures of the same kid that TIME used in a previous article. That earned the rebuke from Mr. Olmsted:
“There’s a technical term for this in [...]
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“My child does not understand about cars at all and once ran right into the street and almost got hit—-”: I’ve heard many parents of autistic children say this; in his book The Only Boy in the World: A Father Explores the Mysteries of Autism , Michael Blastland describes, in harrowing detail, his son Joe [...]
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A new way of understanding autistic disorders, incorporating both psychological and biological factors, could lead to the conditions being picked up earlier, research from UNSW has found. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
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We don’t have a TV (thank heavens for the internet, so we could watch Barack Obama’s victory speech in South Carolina). So maybe I shouldn’t be shaking my head at ABC’s new legal drama, Eli Stone, which is set to premier January 31st. The first episode features lawyer Stone suing his former client, a Big [...]
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A student wins $10,000 for her idea of using a packaging product to help children with autism. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
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You are (according to your own founders’ message) “one of the largest foundations dedicated to [a certain disability] in the world.”
A 14-year-old who has this certain disability creates a website that parodies your website. (Full details here).
You send the 14-year-old a letter threatening to sue her to the tune of $90,000 for “funds lost.” [...]
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SpeechWorks is one of 30 providers internationally that offer the Sensory Learning Program, an innovative 30-day program geared towards correcting sensory issues in the brain. The program combines three conventional therapies into one, and it's showing progress not just for Autism, but for kids with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and developmental delays.
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8-year-old David Militello has sung the “Star-Spangled Banner” at NBA games and also before a Martin Luther King, Jr., rally in Atlanta last well (here’s a video). David has Asperger Syndrome and music—singing, humming—help to “unstick” his mind:
At first, his mother says he seemed perfectly normal, even said a few words, until about age 2. [...]
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Recent research found that children with autism improved their road safety skills after practicing with a unique virtual reality system. The independence of children with autism depends on their receiving treatment in natural settings. One of the main problems they face is their inability to learn how to safely cross the street, a necessary skill for independent living.
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Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is an autosomal dominant disorder, caused by an expansion of a CTG triplet repeat in the DMPK gene. The aims of the present study were to classify a cohort of children with DM1, to describe their neuropsychiatric problems and cognitive level, to estimate the size of the CTG expansion, and to correlate the molecular findings with the neuropsychiatric problems. Fifty-seven children and adolescents (26 females; 31 males) with DM1 (CTG repeats > 40) were included in the study. The following instruments were used: Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R), 5-15, Gr
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Brain activation and functional connectivity were investigated in high functioning autism using functional magnetic resonance imaging in an n-back working memory task involving photographic face stimuli. The autism group showed reliably lower activation compared with controls in the inferior left prefrontal area (involved in verbal processing and working memory maintenance) and the right posterior temporal area (associated with theory of mind processing). The participants with autism also showed activation in a somewhat different location in the fusiform area than the control participants. The
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Recent research conducted at the University of Haifa found that children with autism improved their road safety skills after practicing with a unique virtual reality system. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
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A 10-year old autistic child “walked away” from his residential facility, Howell Care Centers, in Carrabus County, North Carolina, and was found “in a small branch feeding into a pond on property adjacent to the center.” He was administered CPR and died in the Intensive Care Unit of CMC-University, according to News 14. According to [...]
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Mike McCarron, grandfather of Katie McCarron, has written an open letter to the Autism Hub. Here is an excerpt; go here to read the full text of letter.
I wish to thank each of you for your words; both about Katie and about people with special needs in general. In a world where differences easily [...]
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Autistic states and transitional phenomena: Violette Leduc?s
La Bātarde
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/BF02821855Authors
Bonnie Engdahl, the California Institute of the Arts Faculty in Critical Studies USA
Journal The American Journal of PsychoanalysisOnline ISSN 1573-6741Print ISSN 0002-9548
Journal Volume Volume 54
Journal Issue Volume 54, Number 2 / June, 1994 (Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis)
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Autism does change everything I wrote last Friday—-looking over the topics of last week’s posts, it seems that a little bit of everything from lipstick to sushi to communication notebooks to psychoanalysis to services for autistic adults to fictional mercury-based substances to how many girls have autism was discussed.
Yes, No, Brown Noodles!On the uses of [...]
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