American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) calls for universal autism screening for ALL children 18-24 months. Read more...
More News about Mirror Neurons
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Ruling Stands in New York
Student with autism entitled to private program without "trying out" public schools. Read more...
Washington State "needs intervention."
Rated for compliance with law re: educating children with disabilities. Wa. scores in bottom five...read more here...
Autism Speaks launches Flouxetine clinical trial with UK pharmaceutical firm to confirm reduction of core autism symptoms. Click here for details...
Senate Committee approves $53.5M for Combatting Autism Act for 2008. Click here for details...
Fight over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
Beginning on June 18th, 5,000 families will seek to convince a special court in Washington that certain routine vaccines can cause healthy and outgoing children to withdraw into uncommunicative, autistic shells. To read more, click here... To view daily court proceedings or download the transcripts from this landmark case, click here...
Washington Autism Task Force Report available online! To download, click here.
Rethinking Autism: Toward a Whole Body Paradigm
A new paradigm of autism as a set of phenotypes involving environmental modulation or triggering of genetic vulnerability is emerging. Click here to listen to/read this audiocast-blog featuring Harvard neuroscientist Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D., with comments from Lee Grossman, President of the Autism Society of America and the parent of a child with autism.
Does your child wander away from home or school? Click here to read about a possible solution to this prevalent challenge for parents of children on the spectrum. |
Athletics and autism: activities and programs that benefit kids on the spectrum. To read more, click here...
Indiana families report on early intervention and the efficacy of leading evidence-based practices. Click here to read more.
New PDA software helps individuals on the spectrum to bridge the social skills gap!
To read about this new device, click here.
New study confirms effectiveness of early intervention
Wisconsin Early Autism Project replicates intensive early intervention programs of Lovaas (minus aversives). To read more, click here...
Calling attention to the needs of siblings: Many supports and services are directed to children with disabilities and to their parents, often leaving their siblings overlooked. To read more, click here...