Special education expert, Stephen Shore Ed.D., held a workshop on music education for children on the autism spectrum this Tuesday at our partner organization Shema Kolainu Hear Our Voices. Shore completed his doctoral degree in special education at Boston University and now teaches at Adelphi University in New York. Having been diagnosed on the autism [...]
Men that have children at an older age may put their grandchildren at a higher risk of having autism, according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry this week. The study maintains that risk factors for autism may increase over several generations, with a father and grandfather’s lifestyle choices wielding a direct impact on [...]
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 [...]
Recent studies of pre and post-natal deficiency of a growth protein associated with brain cell development in mice, insulin-like growth factor (IGF), have revealed a link between IGF and both neurological and physical, development defects. Physician-researcher Gary Steinman, MD, PhD, of Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine has hypothesized an association between IGF and the onset [...]
It is a well known fact that simply by taking essential vitamins and folic acid prior and especially during pregnancy, helps prevent spina bifida, neural tube defects etc. And according to a new study, folic acid may also reduce the risk of autism spectrum disorder. Autism Birth Cohort Study, a subset of the Norwegian Mother [...]
Linda Gund Anderson, a mother of a young man with autism has written an amusing and interesting book entitled, “Unintentional Humor: Celebrating the Literal Mind of Autism.” Her book is a 160-page descriptive report of the many misunderstood phrases that her son Brent encountered when growing up. Brent, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome was [...]
The results of the study by Dr. Katarzyna Chawarska, associate professor at the Yale Child Study Center, and her colleagues and published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, showed that these infants paid less attention to people and their activities than normally developing babies,. What is now also confirmed is that autism outcomes are enhanced by [...]
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 [...]
“Early intervention alters the trajectory of the brain and social development in children with autism,” says Geraldine Dawson, the lead study author along with co-author Sally Rogers who developed the play-focused behavioral therapy called Early Start Denver Model (ESDM). recent research has shown, ESDM may possibly be connected to enhanced social behavior and normal patterns [...]
An international team, led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has discovered that “random” mutations in the genome are not quite so random after all. Their study, to be published in the journal Cell on December 21, shows that the DNA sequence in some regions of the human genome [...]
