Report Slates Service Provision For Children With Autism
A hard-hitting report on the lack of statutory services for children with autism and their parents and carers will be published this week.The report, Meeting the Needs of Families Living with Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, was compiled by researchers from Queen's University Belfast, University of Ulster, and autism charity, PEAT, supported by funding from the Royal Irish Academy.
New Book Relates Life With An Autistic Son
The realities of the "autism front" are illustrated in James Wilson's frank, funny memoir centered on his son, Sam.After what he calls "a lifetime of personal experience, " James Wilson had more than enough material for Weather Reports from the Autism Front: A Father's Memoir of His Autistic Son.
Autism In Children And Mental Disorders In Parents Linked
Parents of children with autism were roughly twice as likely to have been hospitalized for a mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, than parents of other children, according to an analysis of Swedish birth and hospital records by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher and colleagues in the U.
Groundbreaking International Effort Begins Search For Causes Of Autism
Dr. Eric Fombonne, from the Research Institute of the MUHC at the Montreal Children's Hospital, is involved in a multi-site consortium to gather DNA samples from 2, 000 autism patients and their families over the next three years.The Simons Simplex Collection (SSC) is a coordinated effort to create a database of genetic and behavioral information about cases where there is only one family member with autism.
CMS Approves Pennsylvania Medicaid Waiver Program To Help Residents With Autism
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Thursday announced that CMS earlier this month granted approval of a waiver program that allows the state to allocate part of its federal Medicaid funds toward services for adult residents with autism, the
Music Used To Explore The Autistic Brain's Emotion Processing
Music has a universal ability to tap into our deepest emotions. Unfortunately, for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), understanding emotions is a very difficult task. Can music help them? Thanks to funding from the GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program, researchers at UCLA are about to find out.
Discovery Of Small RNAs That Regulate Gene Expression And Protect The Genome
The list of short RNAs grows longerRNA is best known as a working copy of the DNA sequence of genes. In this role, it's a carrier of the genes' instructions to the cell, which manufactures proteins according to information in the RNA molecule.But molecular biologists have increasingly realized that many RNA snippets -- so-called small RNAs -- also directly influence which genes make proteins, and in some cases, how much protein.
Autism: Genetic Links To Impaired Social Behavior
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show profound deficits in social interactions and communications, and display repetitive behaviors and abnormal responses to sensory experiences. One aspect of an autistic child's impaired social abilities is their lack of affiliative behaviors, i.
More Vaccine-Autism Link Cases Heard By US Court
Parents claiming that the vaccine preservative thimerosal damaged their children's brains and led them to show symptoms of autism, brought their case before the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington yesterday, Monday, the second case in a series of three where the court has to decide whether the US government should pay millions of dollars in compensation to the families of about 4, 800 autistic children, reported the New York Times.
Public Invited To Attend Autism Research Town Hall Meeting - May 3, Sacramento, California
Parents and caregivers of children, teens and adults with autism spectrum disorders are among those invited to participate in a daylong town hall meeting on May 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at UC Davis Cancer Center, 4501 "X" St., Sacramento, to discuss priorities for current and future autism research.