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12-year-old ‘scientist’ goes viral denouncing anti-vaxxers
A recent viral video is putting those who don’t believe in vaccines into question, and it’s all thanks to a pre-teen.
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How I connected with my autistic son through video games
My son was seven when a pediatrician diagnosed him on the autism scale – but really, we had known for years. There was his limited vocabulary – a handful of words by the time he was three, and a habit of mixing up letters or relying on stock sentences. He found it hard to get on with other children at his nursery, and later, when he went to a much bigger school, it was obvious the experience was terrifyingly loud, hectic and incomprehensible to him. Meanwhile, if there was something he was interested in, whether it was Peppa Pig or Superman, he would...
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Is there a disorder that makes you over-sensitive?
Investigating the genetics of SPD and how it compares to autism and ADHD. While these are all distinct diagnostic labels, they apply to groups of symptoms that often overlap. It’s easy to see how a child who can’t concentrate at school because her SPD means she’s focusing on the clicking of a fan or the scratch of her neighbor’s pencil might get labelled as having attention deficit disorder; or how a child who wants to run around endlessly because he craves sensory input about the location of his body parts in space might get labelled as ‘hyperactive’; or how a child who cannot properly process visual information about a face might struggle
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Pregnant Women Who Use Tylenol Risk Having Kids With Autism, ADHD
Paracetamol, commonly known as Panadol and Tylenol, has long been considered a safe medication for pregnant women to take for pain, fever, and even the flu. But a new study suggests that the risk of children experiencing autism spectrum disorder symptoms can be traced back to their mom’s use of OTC painkillers. A team of researchers in Spain studied 2,644 mother-child pairs, starting with pregnancy and going through the child’s fifth birthday. Women were asked if they ever took paracetamol during pregnancy, and if so, if their use was sporadic or persistent.
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Painting with an Autistic Child
July 12, 2016
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Tracking time can be tricky for children with autism
Children use their sense of time to guess when the school bell will ring, when to pause while chatting with a friend, and how long it typically takes Dad to buy groceries. A good sense of time makes life less unpredictable, and may also smooth out some social interactions. Most children get better at estimating time as they grow. They learn by averaging their experiences — for instance, previous trips to a supermarket or conversational pauses. Some children have an innate sense of time and rely less on this imprecise averaging tactic.
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Autistic boy receives 20,000 birthday cards after mother's Facebook appeal
An autistic boy has received tens of thousands of birthday cards from strangers all over the world, after his mother made a public appeal. Karen Jones, 49, from Exmouth, posted a request for help on Facebook after her son Ollie told her he loved opening cards and had made his own to open on his 15th birthday. Writing on a community page, she said: “He’s just told me he love opening cards to [the] extent he’s made himself a couple.”
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Israeli doctors to use cannabis to treat autism in first-of-its-kind study.
A researcher in Israel is preparing to study the potential beneficial effects of cannabidiol (CBD) on children and adults with autism.
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People with Autism Make More Logical Decisions
Decisions are based on the way choices are framed. This is because people use emotion when making decisions, leading to some options feeling more desirable than others. For example, when given £50, we are more likely to gamble the money if we stand to lose £30 than if we are going to keep £20. Although both options are mathematically equivalent, the thought of losing money evokes a powerful emotional response and we are more likely to gamble to try to avoid losing money.
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The Other Sister: Returning Home to Care for an Autistic Sibling
As many as 700,000 adults in the U.S. with a disability like autism live with parents or another family member who is 60 or older. What happens when those caregivers are gone? One sibling confronts her past and likely future. By Ciara O’Rourke.
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Toy store offers "quiet hour" for children with autism
Campaigners and parents of children with autism have called for retailers to follow the example of a major toy chain after it held a “quiet hour” to cater for those on the autistic spectrum. Toys R Us today opened its doors an hour early after adapting its UK stores with measures tailored to meet the needs of children with autism, including dimmed fluorescent lighting and a ban on music and in-store announcements.
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Could You Stand the Rejection?
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Autism symptoms improve after fecal transplant, small study finds.
Children with autism may benefit from fecal transplants -- a method of introducing donated healthy microbes into people with gastrointestinal disease to rebalance the gut.
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Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear
Brain scans can detect autism long before any symptoms start to emerge, say scientists. The earliest that children tend to be diagnosed at present is at the age of two, although it is often later. The study, published in the journal Nature, showed the origins of autism are much earlier than that - in the first year of life. The findings could lead to an early test and even therapies that work while the brain is more malleable.
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Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear
The discovery could lead to better tests and therapies for children with autism.
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Brain network connections may underlie social behavior linked to autism
Evaluating the strength of connections in the brain is one avenue researchers have been exploring to help identify children at risk for autism spectrum disorder earlier in life. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with colleagues from the multicenter Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) network, have found associations between brain connectivity and a key social behavior that is a central feature of autism. If it becomes possible to identify children with autism spectrum disorder earlier...
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‘There is no other medicine’: Texas father breaks law to treat self-harming autistic daughter with marijuana
Kara Zartler’s life began too soon. Along with her twin sister, she was born at 26 weeks. At 1 pound 12 ounces, she weighed slightly less than the healthy Keeley. Then, 10 hours into life, Kara suffered a brain hemorrhage. Seventeen years later, she’s lucky to be alive. But she has cerebral palsy and severe autism, which in her case causes compulsive self-injurious behavior that began with she was 4 years old.
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Yale Researchers Find That Autism Genes Helped Us to Become Smarter
The study might also help us to identify the prodigy gene, should it exist.
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US President-Elect Donald Trump has said vaccines cause autism, and he couldn't be more wrong
The President-Elect of the United States of America has said he believes that vaccines are harmful, and has repeatedly and erroneously claimed that they cause autism. This is untrue and it's dangerous. Back in 1998, British medical researcher Andrew Wakefield published a paper in the health journal The Lancet which claimed to show a link between children who were given the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism and bowel disease.
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What CIOs need to know about workplace diversity
It's becoming harder to find tech staff, particularly in traditional non-geeky organizations. Here are new places to look and reasons why a more diverse workforce is worth seeking out.
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