The Minnesota Legislature has proposed the first bill of 2013 to reform insurance coverage for autism. The health care bill encompassing autism coverage reform was approved by the House of Representatives on Friday and by the Senate on Saturday. It is estimated that the changes would benefit 750,000 Minnesota residents who are insured by state-regulated [...]
Jennifer Margulis, author of The Business of Baby, exposes the cultural assumptions and institutional practices dictating pregnancy, childbirth, and infant nurturing as influenced by corporate interests rather than based on the best medical evidence. Margulis is a Senior Fellow at Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, and an award winning parenting writer. In [...]
Spectrum Neuroscience and Treatment Institute and ask Stefanie (mental health consultant) are excited for the upcoming Round Table Discussion entitled Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder: New Clinical Treatments, Policy and Research Perspectives. Speakers will discuss the new developments and current research in Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder. Our speakers for this event will include Eric Hollander MD, Stephen [...]
At 7 months old, children who are later diagnosed with autism take a split second longer to shift their gaze, as compared with typically developing children of the same age. Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health measured a 25 to 50 millisecond difference when measuring eye movements and visual attention—too brief a time [...]
A new study on patterns of brain communication in toddlers with autism demonstrates problems with neural communication even at this early stage of brain development, according to an article in Brain Connectivity, a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal. A team of researchers from The Netherlands (University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, [...]
Autism Prevalence at 1 in 50 for School-Age Children There are as many as one in 50 school age children in the U.S. diagnosed with autism, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a 72 percent increase from 2007. However, researchers attribute the rise to improved detection [...]
The First Lady of the Republic of Panama, Marta Martinelli de Linares, opened the first education center in the country for people with different abilities in May 2012, Centro Ann Sullivan de Panama (CASPAN). The center was built after the model established by Dr. Liliana Mayo, Ph.D., who founded the Centro Ann Sullivan del [...]
I’m really motivated and inspired by an amazing autistic person who says it like it is and espouses the rights of autistics and talks about Autism Acceptance NOT Autism Awareness. Her name is Amy Sequenzia and she is an autistic self-advocate who also has epilepsy and cerebral palsy. She writes poetry, published three small books [...]
The Dhaka Conference on Autism Spectrum Diseases in 2011 has contributed significantly to the UN resolution, Bangladesh’s foreign minister Dr Dipu Moni said. The United Nations has passed a Bangladesh- proposed resolution on autism unanimously at its general assembly on Wednesday, putting Bangladesh as the pioneering status in the world autism movement, Foreign Minister Dr [...]
