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New Computer Game Helps Development of Skills for Kids with Autism

New Computer Game Helps Development of Skills for Kids with Autism

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 [...]

Stem Cells Help Boy with Autism in Greece

Stem Cells Help Boy with Autism in Greece

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 [...]

Autism Study Breakthrough?

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 [...]

Say ‘Namaste’ to Autism

Say ‘Namaste’ to Autism

While music and art therapy are at the top of the alternative or supplementary autism treatment list, yoga is attracting a new following.
Lynne Silberman of Dallas, Texas created and currently runs a yoga program for special-needs children. Licensed by the Florida-based group Yoga for the Special Child, Silberman previously taught at Dallas Services before becoming [...]

Autism Research Tests ‘Love Hormone’ Impact

By digging into Oxytocin, autism researchers are finding new clues into the missing piece of the autism cure puzzle. And, just in time for Valentines Day, the industry’s top doc’s are looking into love.

Establishing Calm: Yoga for Children with ASDs

Establishing Calm: Yoga for Children with ASDs

by Linda Ruggiero, Ph.D.
As the Indian tradition of practicing yoga becomes increasingly infused into Western culture, people are recognizing the beneficial effects that yoga has on one’s physical and emotional well being.  In 2008, Yoga Journal reported that 15.8 million Americans practice yoga. In line with this trend, yoga is becoming more widely accepted as [...]

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