ASD in the news
Research news
CDC Estimates 1 in 88 Children Identified with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 29, 2012 — More children than ever before are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Like the many families living with ASDs, CDC considers ASDs an important public health concern. | read more
Research Finds Annual Cost of Autism More Than Tripled
Autism Speaks, March 28, 2012 — Autism Speaks announced preliminary results of new research that estimate autism costs society $126 billion per year. The costs of providing care for each person with autism affected by intellectual disability through his or her lifespan are $2.3 million in the U.S. |read more
Autism Linked With Excess of Neurons in Prefrontal Cortex
ScienceDaily, Nov. 8, 2011 — A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego Autism Center of Excellence shows that brain overgrowth in boys with autism involves an abnormal, excess number of neurons in areas of the brain associated with social, communication and cognitive development | read more
'Environment' Poses Knotty Challenge in Autism
The New York Times, Perri Klass, MD, Aug. 8, 2011 — Parents of children with autism often ask pediatricians like me about the cause of the condition, and parents-to-be often ask what they can do to reduce the risk. But although there is more research in this area than ever before, it sometimes feels as if it’s getting harder, not easier, to provide answers that do justice to the evidence and also offer practical guidance. | read more
Study Debunks Autism as a Primarily Genetic Disorder
University of California San Francisco, July 5, 2011— A rigorous study of nearly 400 twins has shown that environmental factors have been underestimated, and genetics overestimated, for their roles in autism-spectrum disorders. | read more
General news
A Generation of Autism, Coming of Age
New York Times, April 13, 2011 — As the explosion of children who were found to have autism in the 1990s begins to transition from the school to the adult system, experts caution about the coming wave. | read more
Autism’s Lost Generation: Who Will Care For Dana?
MSN.com / Parade, April 3, 2011 — Dana is autistic. Dana turns 21 this week, and federal support that has kept her in a special-needs school will soon dry up, leaving her parents to agonize about the quality of life their daughter is facing. | read more
Students with autism, Asperger's develop iPad app
Star-Telegram, March 15, 2011 — One of the newest iPad apps might be a little hard to find, but it's a milestone for a small Plano nonprofit trying to set up working futures for adults who have autism and its high-functioning variant, Asperger's syndrome. | read more
Autism's First Child
The Atlantic, October 2010 — As new cases of autism have exploded in recent years—some form of the condition affects about one in 110 children today—efforts have multiplied to understand and accommodate the condition in childhood. But children with autism will become adults with autism, some 500,000 of them in this decade alone. What then? Meet Donald Gray Triplett, 77, of Forest, Mississippi. He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism. | read more
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Updated: March 30, 2012