These children will outgrow the toys they got this Christmas, but they'll never outgrow the feelings they felt when they received what are probably the only gifts they'll get this holiday season. The post GreaterGood Donates Toys to Children in Areas Hit Hard by Hurricanes and Poverty appeared firs…

"The way in which people are expected to live in both these homes is neither acceptable nor sustainable." The post Care Homes Need “Urgent Improvements” After Inspection Deems Them “Unacceptable” appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

Register for the next Spectrum webinar, featuring the co-chairs of the Lancet Commission: Catherine Lord, distinguished professor of psychiatry and education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Tony Charman, chair of clinical child psychology at King’s College London in the United King…

Among autism’s many mysteries is its apparent rise in prevalence around the world. But how common is it, exactly? And is it really more common among children today than in generations past? This new downloadable book from Spectrum offers an in-depth guide to the various factors — perhaps chief among…

What I Felt After Being Diagnosed at 20 Potential Energy, Infinite And soft, Rolling Clear waves Of starry Blossoms. Steadily Growing Like iron On trees, Morphing Into Wavering gold By a few simple words. After My Diagnosis: A Journey My heart and my brain Now grow in unison, Thinking as one, and wo…

Everyone deserves a chance at a job after graduating high school. That’s why Kim Mileszko has made it... The post Woman Helps Students With Special Needs Achieve Success After Graduation appeared first on The Autism Site News. Source: The Autism Site

For the past five years, Roald Øien has been stress testing the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT), a go-to screen for autism introduced in 2001. His results are far from encouraging: The screen misses more than 70 percent of children who are later diagnosed with autism, while mostly…

A study linking low vitamin A levels to sleep troubles in autistic children was retracted this month after its authors discovered “fundamental errors” in their data. The study, which appeared 3 July in BMC Pediatrics — a journal published by Springer Nature — involved 856 autistic children and 316 c…

A variety of traits, including developmental delay and intellectual disability, characterize people with mutations in the autism-linked gene MYT1L, according to a new study. The gene encodes a transcription factor important for cells that make myelin, which insulates nerve cells and is deficient in …

140 million people worldwide have Glaucoma or Ocular Hypertension with 80% of these patients in emerging economies. Glaucoma is incurable but with treatment its progression can be delayed. The most popular treatment for Glaucoma is eye drops that need to be taken every day multiple times for the …

Hello, and welcome to the Community Newsletter! I’m your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, Spectrum’s engagement editor. What do psychotherapists who treat adults know about autism? A thread about a study in Autism offered some insight this week. A blind spot in mental healthcare? A study by a participatory…

Greetings! Welcome to this month’s edition of Spectrum Launch, a newsletter providing guidance and resources for early-career autism researchers. We have a few new funding resources and recommended reads to see you through your final exams, end-of-the-semester grading, project wrap-ups or whatever e…

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New software uses artificial intelligence to automatically identify and quantify certain types of mouse social behavior from videos of mice interacting in a cage — even animals with cables implanted to monitor their brain activity. The tool, called the Mouse Action Recognition System (MARS), could a…