After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017, according to a Georgetown University report released 21 November. Although not a big jump statistically — the share of uninsured children rose to 5 percent in 2017 from 4.7 percent a year ear…

"He cheers for everything, sometimes the opposing team."Source: The Autism Site

Dorothée Chabas is a French-American neurologist who lives in a lemon-yellow house in Haight & Ashbury, San Francisco. She practiced medicine in Paris and at UC San Francisco for many years, taking care of adults and children with multiple sclerosis. Over the past 9 years, she self-trained and d…

About 1 in 40 children in the United States has autism, according to a survey conducted in 2016. Roughly 30 percent of those children were not being treated for the condition at the time1,2. Two independent research teams analyzed the data: One study appears today in JAMA Pediatrics, and the other c…

Some autistic children don’t show traits of the condition until age 5 or later, new research suggests1. Others show a few mild features at age 3 but only later meet the criteria for diagnosis. The findings suggest that autism traits are not always apparent by 24 months, the typical age for screening…

Age related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy are the leading causes of blindness in developed nations, and age related vision loss, such as Coloboma, Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, and Stargardt disease, is an issue for many.  In order to compensate for vision loss fro…

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Neurons grown from human stem cells and grafted onto the brains of live mice mature and form connections like those in the fetal human brain, according to a new study1. Scientists could use the unusual setup to study the properties of neurons from people with brain conditions such as autism. The res…

Children who have repetitive behaviors, a core autism trait, show particular patterns of brain activity as early as 1 year of age, according to a new study1. Autistic people have brain activity patterns that differ from those of their typical peers. These differences emerge early in life: A study la…

He was recruited by several schools but chose Kent State for its autism-friendly programs.Source: The Autism Site

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Parents speak to their autistic children using fewer words and less complex sentences than do parents of typical children, which in turn shapes the children’s language skills, a new study suggests1. The findings contradict the recommendations of some autism therapies, which ask parents to speak in s…

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The employee kept insisting the dog was a pet.Source: The Autism Site