Autism-World

Autism is called ‘zi bi zheng’ and considered of a tpye of mental disability in China. There’s no diagnosis of autism in China until the 80s of 20 century, which is 40 years late comparing to international society. Even by far, there’s only about 100 doctors in China who can diagnose autism expertly.
In a survey [...]

According to the new research of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, Maternal Antibodies might link to autism. Prenatal Exposure To Maternal Antibodies could cause autistic behaviors like the repetitive behavior, which is a important character of autism.
“Dr. Van de Water’s result implicated maternal immune system factors with at least one form of autism,” said neuroscientist [...]

According to a new study published this week in the Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine, Wi-Fi might be linked to the growing number of cases of childhood autism. Dr. George Carlo, who led the study, said, “The electromagnetic radiation apparently causes the metals to be trapped in cells, slowing clearance and accelerating the onset [...]

Hello, my name is Dayna and I am a senior at Syosset High School in New York. I am enrolled in our school’s indepedent research program in which we are able to develop our own unique investigation and carry it out. I have an interest in the realm of autism spectrum disorders, and I have [...]

Hello everyone,My name is Brian and I am Kyle’s Dad. Kyle is my 12 year old son who has became non-verbal and has Autism. I am also finishing up a Master’s of Public Administration degree from Appalachian State University. The capstone project that I have chosen is to evaluate the effectiveness of Respite Care Procedures [...]

In the first study of its kind, researchers have discovered that in autistic individuals, connections between brain cells may be deficient within single regions, and not just between regions, as was previously believed.Tony Wilson, Ph.D., lead researcher and assistant professor of neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, said he hopes this study will [...]

New research by Birkbeck researcher Dr Atsushi Senju, in the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development has shown for the first time that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder are not susceptible to contagious yawning. Autism Spectrum Disorder is a developmental disability that severely affects social interaction and communication including empathy. Contagious yawning is when yawning [...]

In order to continue federal progress on research on autism, EPA and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announced renewed funding for The University of California/Davis’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCEH). This center will investigate how genes and exposure to environmental chemicals during fetal development may play a role in the development [...]

What: Pregnant women and new mothers who already have one child with autism joined UC Davis researchers and officials from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as they announced funding of $7.5 million for UC Davis autism research. Part of the funding will go to a new autism [...]

Autistic children are doubly stigmatized. On the one hand, they are often dismissed as ‘low functioning’ or mentally retarded, especially if they have poor speaking skills as many do. Yet when autistics do show exceptional abilities — uncanny visual discrimination and memory for detail, for example — their flashes of brilliance are marginalized as aberrations, [...]

A study published in the August issue of the journal Brain demonstrates, for the first time, an association between increased white matter volume and functional impairment in children with autism. Findings from researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Md., reveal that in children with autism, increased white matter volume in the motor region [...]

In work that may one day lead to earlier detection of children at risk of developing autism, a team of scientists has devised a genetic model for the enigmatic disorder. The two-tiered theory integrates families with one or more autistic children.An estimated one in every 150 children born in the U.S. develops autism, according to [...]

The doctor who caused a worldwide drop in childhood immunisation nearly ten years ago by suggesting there was a link between the measles, mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism is facing a disciplinary hearing with his two fellow researchers. Dr Andrew Wakefield, Professors Simon Murch and John Walker Smith, are accused of serious professional misconduct [...]

Autism is a spectrum disorder, which means that it affects children in a variety of ways. By identifying the biological and behavioral patterns that define the autism spectrum, improved diagnostic practices and targeted treatments will emerge. This panel discussion – “Uncovering the Mysteries of Autism” – highlights what the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute’s Autism Phenome [...]

Autism campaigner Ivan Corea briefly met the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Gordon Brown and urged him to listen to the voices of parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome and provide them with better public services.Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder – there are estimates of 587,900 people with autism in the UK. According to researchers, [...]

Two of the most often-used classroom approaches for teaching young children with autism have never been evaluated, until now. With a $3 million federal grant, FPG Child Development Institute (FPG) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will soon begin answering questions about the programs’ efficacy.
Another $5 million federal grant will establish [...]

Researchers in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine have identified a new regulatory target for the Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP), laying the groundwork for possible new treatments for Fragile X syndrome(FXS), the leading inherited form of mental retardation.
The findings, published in the early online edition [...]

Hearings are scheduled to begin next week in the U.S. Federal Claims Court where over 4,800 parents have filed for compensation for their children who developed autism after exposure to infant vaccines. A majority of those claims revolve around the use of thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative.
Parents claim that the science is on their side and [...]

Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world’s leading immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our time (over 850 papers in peer reviewed journals), has published that if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots their chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease is ten times higher than if they had one, two or no shots.[i] This [...]

Some people believe that there is mercury in vaccines that is damaging their children’s brains. This has been disproven, but you know once someone starts saying something like this, it takes on a life of its own. Now there are thousands of parents needlessly exposing their kids to childhood diseases because they believe the myth [...]

Elaine:I feel quite privaliged to live in the u.k and my daughter goes to an excellent special needs school but i am quite sure in my mind that the americans do lead the way in this field and do alot more for children with asd.My heart though goes out to countries were it is way [...]

It is the middle of a lesson in the classroom at Greenbriar Public School in Brampton, and the boys, aged 12 to 14, take turns jumping on the trampoline in between listening to their teacher.
“It releases tension,” teacher Carole Ann MacDonald says matter-of-factly, as she surveys a classroom that also includes terrariums, a beanbag chair, [...]

By Deborah Pugh
Lauren Brown’s letter of May 7 criticizing my willingness to talk of the challenges of puberty and autism, and to allow my son to be identified, spoke more to her sense of shame around sexuality and disability then to my son’s reality.
To our family it is not a source of shame that he [...]

Younger siblings of children with autism are at risk to suffer from delayed verbal, cognitive and motor development in their early childhood years.This finding is the result of a research project carried out by a staff headed by Prof. Nurit Yirmiya and doctoral candidate Yifat Gamliel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Marian [...]

TeachTown, a Seattle based autism research and technology company, received its second Department of Education grant. With recent increases in autism prevalence, estimates are now 1 out of 150 births, “We have a rapidly growing school-age autism population that is severely under-served,” says Dr. Whalen, Founder and Chief Science Officer. “Our goal is to provide [...]

More than 900 scientists, parents and activists from around the world who are focused on understanding the causes of autism and finding treatments for the developmental disorder will gather in Seattle May 3-5 to share the latest research findings at the sixth annual International Meeting for Autism Research.The meeting at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel and [...]

A former Government medical officer responsible for deciding whether medicines are safe has accused the Government of “utterly inexplicable complacency” over the MMR triple vaccine for children. Dr Peter Fletcher, who was Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, said if it is proven that the jab causes autism, “the refusal by governments to [...]

WASHINGTON, DC (February 8, 2007) — This morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released, through its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the latest revised prevalence figures for autism.  The report indicates that the prevalence of autism is now 1 in 150, up from the 1 in 166 figure reported by the [...]

FRIDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) — The release last week of statistics on the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in American children — one case in every 150 8-year-olds — confirmed that the condition is more common now than it was just a decade ago, when estimates ranged anywhere from one in 500 youngsters to [...]

SUNDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) — The largest study of the genetics of autism ever conducted, involving DNA from almost 1,200 affected families worldwide, has already yielded two important clues to the poorly understood disorder, scientists say.Discoveries in two areas of the genome — a region on chromosome 11 suspected of having links to autism, [...]