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• Focused Education Improves Autism, ADHD

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 579
  Emerging research suggests structured and concentrated teaching can improve literacy and comprehension in challenged school-aged children. Experts call for teachers and parents to be vigilant in detecting difficulties with language comprehension, reading and spelling in children and young people with autism, ...
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• IACC Statement on Autism Research

  
  NeuroLogica Blog — Authority: 596
  Politics is partly about setting priorities and agendas, and therefore it is impossible to keep politics out of science. Politicians are also in control of the public’s purse strings, and so funding science also cannot be free from politics. But ideally we should have an atmosphere in which politicians and funding ...
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• Handwriting and Fine Motor Skills: New Insights into Autism

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Handwriting and Fine Motor Skills: New Insights into Autism Over the last couple of years, Ive been privileged to interview several researchers who work at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. Ive written about their work on the brains motor (movement control) regions and functions as they relate to autism. ...
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• Autism Research Update

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 579
  A recent meeting by The Autism Consortium gave scientists, clinicians, advocates and parents an opportunity to share the latest information on causes of autism and their implications for diagnosis, prognosis and therapies. The symposium’s scope and attendance doubled this year, with an increase in scientific ...
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• CARD Study Finds Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Ineffective Treatment for Children with Autism

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 425
  CARD, the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc., has conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled trial which found that HBOT, consisting of 24% oxygen delivered at 1.3 atmospheres of pressure, does not have a significant effect on symptoms of autism. The study is summarized on the CARD blog . autism
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• Do You Have Autism Attention Deficit Disorder Confusion?

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 137
  Though it is not known why autism, attention deficit disorder, as well as other autism spectrum conditions have become increasingly common, their instances have continued to rise substantially over the past few decades. The controversy surrounding this issue is currently escalating as quickly as the rate of instances. ...
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• Do You Have Autism Attention Deficit Disorder Confusion?

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 137
  Though it is not known why autism, attention deficit disorder, as well as other autism spectrum conditions have become increasingly common, their instances have continued to rise substantially over the past few decades. The controversy surrounding this issue is currently escalating as quickly as the rate of instances. ...
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• Mitochondrial disorder and autism

  
  Action For Autism — Authority: 403
  When Hannah Poling won her claim for an adverse vaccine reaction that triggered a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder and caused her to develop autistic symptoms it created quite a flurry in the autism world.The strange thing was there were at least 5000 families in the Autism Omnibus Proceedings who believed that ...
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• + New Pfizer Unit to Take On Autism

  
  Dyslexia Tutor: News-Resources — Authority: 116
  other topics: click a “category” or use search box In an article in the Harford Courant , we learn that associate research fellow at Pfizer Diane Stephenson and her colleague Howie Mayor  were able to bring to fruition their idea of forming a separate research unit focusing on autism. Stephenson has ...
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• Kyle Jordre: Living in Color

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 500
  Photograph courtesy of Kyle Jordre Kyle Jordre’s artist’s statement opens with “When I paint, I get lost.” He may get lost in his paintings, but they have helped him find himself and his place in Downtown Phoenix. Just a few years ago, Jordre was a middle school teacher in Minnesota.  Today, he’s a ...
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• Study Shows Similar Mercury Levels for Children With Autism and Peers

  
  On Special Education — Authority: 420
  A new study finds that 2- to 5-year-old children diagnosed with autism and autism-spectrum disorders had blood-mercury levels similar to those of typically developing children. The study, published Oct. 19 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives shows mercury levels were mostly affected by the amount of ...
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• Autism Research Advances

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 579
  A new article summarizes the current scientific view of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) highlighting the advances of the last several years and acknowledging the considerable work that remains to be done. “We summarized many new findings by autism researchers throughout the world, and give our perspective on the ...
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• Autism Research Quote of the Year .... 2003

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 425
  The increase in the incidence of autism from 1990 on may be attributable to more attention being drawn to the syndrome of autism and to achange in the diagnostic criteria from the ICD-8 to the ICD-10 in 1994. Also, outpatient activities were included in the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register in 1995 and ...
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