This past weekend, 17-year-old Jada Braxton won the title of Miss Photogenic at the Miss Saraland pageant in... The post Teen With Autism Is Crowned ‘Miss Photogenic’ At Beauty Pageant appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Millions of infants have benefited from Don Bailey’s work as a member of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children. For six years, he helped decide which conditions doctors should screen for in all babies born in the United States. The program is one of the country’…

Typically, diagnosing Alzheimer’s may take many expensive and time consuming tests, brain imaging, and behavior observations. Canary Speech, a company that specializes in speech analysis technology, is working on an artificial intelligence powered technology that can detect Alzheimer’s just by liste…

RSD can cause low self-esteem and withdrawal from social situations. The post Autism and Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria: Is There a Connection? appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

By: Stephanie Tafone, M.A., P.D., Behavior Intervention Specialist at Eden II Programs  Working on the front lines of Autism care in a residential facility is both rewarding and, at times, challenging. Although our residents depend on us in many ways to teach them how to complete day-to…

Loss of the autism-linked gene ASH1L leads to excess synapses and autism-like behaviors in mice, according to a study published today in Neuron. Boosting the activity of another gene that is downregulated in the mice as a result of the loss of ASH1L reverses some of those changes, the researchers al…

The investigational drug trofinetide, an analogue of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), helps ease issues such as anxiety and breathing problems in girls and young women with Rett syndrome, according to unpublished results from a placebo-controlled trial. Rett syndrome is caused by mutations to M…

Since it is very difficult for people with disabilities to make successful inroads in the film industry, where disabled characters tend to be represented by non-disabled actors, Falk’s example can hopefully inspire members of the disability community today to pursue their aspirations of career succe…

The authors of a 2013 study that appeared to uncover a mechanism by which the immune system influences synapse development have retracted the paper after discovering errors and failing to replicate their findings. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, showed how astrocytes secrete an immune p…

Taking advantage of the abilities of machine learning, a group of bright high school students have created an app called “Atheia” that will not only help detect objects but also describe a scene just as a human would. The app strives to improve spatial awareness and safety for blind p…

Danny Jordan is a television producer and father of a child with an upper limb difference. Since there... The post Dad Creates Inclusive Children’s Book For Daughter With Disability And Others Like Her appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Ready for your weekly recap of autism research tweets? First up in this edition of Spectrum’s Community Newsletter, the cover of The Lancet on 15 January featured a quote from the journal’s recent commission on the future of autism care and clinical research. On this week’s cover, a quote fro…

By Steve Staniek I spent 40 years in Health Physics, protecting workers and the public against nuclear risks, and by the time I retired I was a stressed-out wreck. We moved to the country where I began to study shamanism as a path to healing. I took a couple of basic shamanic courses from FSS, and b…

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