BALTIMORE, Md. (Kennedy Krieger Institute – May 17, 2012) – A new study of six-month-old infants at high genetic risk for autism identified weak head and neck control as a red flag for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and language and/or social developmental delays. Researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute concluded that a simple “pull-to-sit” task [...]
Dr. Partington has dedicated his life to helping children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or other developmental delays. His expertise is in language-based intervention, helping children develop the basic language and learning skills they need for everyday interactions with others. He is the developer of the ABLLS®-R, pioneering the inclusion of verbal behavior into applied [...]
Yeast is a common ingredient in many vaccines. A simple search on the CDC website for “vaccine yeast ingredient,” and you’ll get almost 80 results. While most experts, including the Mayo Clinic, are quick to point out that there is no link between autism and vaccines, that hasn’t stopped some medical researchers and professionals from drawing [...]
An editorial published in Environmental Health Perspectives calls for increased research to identify possible environmental causes of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders in America’s children and presents a list of ten target chemicals including which are considered highly likely to contribute to these conditions. Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc, a world-renowned leader in children’s environmental health and [...]
Diagnosing autism is a complex and subjective process. With the recent rise in incidence to 1 in 88 children, has been partially attributed to improving diagnostic measures but there is still a need for accurate and widely deployable methods for screening and diagnosis. Dennis Wall, associate professor of pathology and director of computational biology initiative [...]
Registration is now open for ICare4Autism’s International Autism Conference, titled Autism: A Global Perspective. It will be held on August 1st and 2nd in Jerusalem, Israel. The purpose of the ICare4Autism conferences are to share current groundbreaking research into the causes and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders , and to be a catalyst for powerful interdisciplinary collaborations to tackle the global autism [...]
The founder and director of the Applied Behavior Analysis Center (Teaching, Community Services & Research) at the Zinman College in Israel, Dr. Eitan Eldar, has been widely acknowledged by the educational community for his extraordinary efforts to fulfill the goals, values, and mission of disseminating behavior analysis. Dr. Eldar has written numerous papers and booked, [...]
The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research’s Autism Research Team are recruiting pregnant Perth women who already have an autistic child, to take part in a landmark study which hopes to discover biomarkers for autism. “This is the second recruitment drive for an ongoing study looking to identify biomarkers, or risk-factors,” group leader Associate Professor [...]
