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Funhouse Treasure Hunt is a new computer game that has been created to help kids with autism develop their sensory processing skills and deal with with their disability.
Kids with autism have difficult time processing sensory information like sights, sounds or social cues from other people. This game, developed by Vision Audio, helps by challenging the [...]
A research group comprised of scientists from England and Germany recently accomplished an interesting study involving the connection between the human voice and the infant.
They believe that further research could reveal a method in which they could identify children with autism.
These scientists analyzed the inner workings of the temporal lobe of the brain. They [...]
Much like a schoolyard of youngsters, autism researchers are beginning to identify the differences between boys and girls with autism. By analyzing the effects that high levels of testosterone have on 78 girls, scientists may have uncovered ’sexism’ in autism.
In a study published this month in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, the Telethon Institute for Child Health [...]
Scientific studies in Greece have been using stem cells found in bone marrow and abdominal fat to treat children with autism. With evidence, from results in a young 9-year-old boy named Yannis, the doctors involved are preparing a protocol to submit to the Ministry of Health to prove the autism treatment.
Yannis is the son of [...]
The University of California Riverside has recently added autism screening clinics to its Autism Resource Center. As an essential part of Early Intervention therapy, the university is urging parents and community members to have their children screened for autism.
Utilizing the Autism Diagnostic Observation System, the screenings are aimed towards children 2 to 5 years [...]
A bio-pharmaceutical company, Cellceutix, has released details about a study that could be a milestone in the fight for a cure along the autism spectrum.
In the study, Dr. Krishna Menon compared two groups of rats that were both injected with a serum that induces autismlike symptoms, and one group was injected with the compound KM-391.
According [...]
Valerie W. Hu, Ph.D., mother of a 22-year-old son with autism, teamed up with other researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and discovered a possible way to reverse autism’s effects.
Published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology [...]
Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEiS), which owns software company Specialisterne, has become a force in autism advocacy. Previously known for recruiting workers with autism, Specialisterne has been awarded a humongous grant of £407,036, or the American equivalent of approximately $616,492 by the BIG Lottery Fund to expand its company program to Glasgow in the [...]
A bio-pharmaceutical company, Cellceutix, has released details about a study that could be a milestone in the fight for a cure along the autism spectrum.
In the study, Dr. Krishna Menon compared two groups of rats that were both injected with a serum that induces autismlike symptoms, and one group was injected with the compound KM-391.
According [...]
Earlier this week in Milan, a judge took a stand for autism, and a stand against Google. Why? Google had apparently hosted a video of an autistic teenager being picked on, and were going to reap profit from the advertisements displayed on the same page as the video.
Judge Oscar Magi felt this was a privacy [...]
