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Autism's Brain Activity Captured in Diagnostic Test
NewScientist, June 28, 2012 — Characteristic patterns of electrical brain activity seen in children with autism could provide a new test for diagnosing the condition. | read more
Diagnosing Autism In Babies: New Survey Could Identify Disorder In First Year Of Life
Huffington Post, July 16, 2012 — A questionnaire could help identify children at risk for autism in their first year of life, new research shows, and that could affect how early children start intervention programs as well as those programs' effectiveness. | read more
Fever During Pregnancy More Than Doubles the Risk of Autism or Developmental Delay
ScienceDaily, May 23, 2012 — A team of UC Davis researchers has found that mothers who had fevers during their pregnancies were more than twice as likely to have a child with autism or developmental delay than were mothers of typically developing children, and that taking medication to treat fever countered its effect. | read more
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
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
Autism can have large effects, good and bad, on a disabled child’s siblings
The Washington Post, Sept. 3, 2012 — One of the least fun moments I recall from my years of growing up with an autistic brother was when he bit me on the cheek — just in time for my class photo. I was 12 and he was 11. I went into school with visible bite marks, and when they sat me in the chair for my solo shot, I told them that the cat had done it. | read more
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
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: February 8, 2013