The fourth India International Deaf Film Festival is fast approaching! To be held in Bengaluru, India from December 28 – 30 of this year, the film festival was first started in 2010 to encourage deaf film makers to have a stronger presence in the world of film making. Entries for the film fest…

And this isn't even the first (or the second) life he's saved.Source: The Autism Site

Discussion on Twitter this week swirled around the evidence base for autism interventions, a new tool for visualizing cells, and the relationship between attention problems and repetitive movements. The post Community Newsletter: An evidence problem; cells’ interior design; repetitive movements appe…

Everything changes after divorce, but these inspiring parents were determined to help hold their family together. Source: The Autism Site

New statistics on autism prevalence in the United States suggest a dramatic rise in the number of children with the condition. But it is unlikely that these numbers reflect a true rise in prevalence, experts say. Autism prevalence in the U.S. rose from 1 in 91 children in 2009 to 1 in 40 in 2017, ac…

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Dr. Karen Parenti, MS, PsyD CEO/Executive Director, and Heather Rothman, BS, LBS, Director of Day Services, Special Friends Foundation. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s fre…

A new web-based atlas maps the myriad contacts among human proteins1. The tool contains twice as many connections as the next-largest resource, and could help scientists better understand the protein networks involved in autism. Many proteins perform their functions with help from one or more partne…

Children with autism tended to have a weaker response to baby talk and emotional speech in the temporal cortex. The post Lack of Engagement During “Baby Talk” Could Point to Autism in Infants, Study Suggests appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Other firefighters called Jason offensive names and removed him from the emergency paging system.Source: The Autism Site

The boy and his uncle got caught in a rip current that could've quickly turned disastrous. The post Veteran Saves 12-Year-Old Boy With Autism After He Nearly Drowned appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Social media in the autism space this week served up a helpful cheat sheet of standout research tweets to catch up on — plus an easier way to consume preprints. “Mixtures matter,” tweeted Giuseppe Testa, professor of molecular biology at Università Statale in Milan, Italy, about the effects of endoc…

The number of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the United States has reached more than 10 percent, a significant increase during the past 20 years, according to a study released 31 August. The rise is most pronounced in minority groups, suggesting that bette…

Intelligence on the spectrum is a lot more complex than you might think.Source: The Autism Site

The number of top autism genes has risen from 65 to 102, based on an analysis of more than 35,000 sequences. And researchers are seeing the first hints of autism risk variants in the regions between genes. The new findings are the payoff from increasingly sophisticated analyses of a growing number o…