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Pilot Study Confirms That Children With Autism Need To Be Taught In Smaller Groups
Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is...
Pregnancy Complications May Increase Autism Risk
Complications during pregnancy may increase the risk of having a child with autism, according to American researchers. The team reviewed 64...
HOPE Welcomes Autism Bill's Progress Following First Reading In The Lords, UK
HOPE, the charity for adults with autism and learning disabilities, welcomes the progress of the Autism Bill through Parliament....
UC Davis Researchers Develop New Test For Fragile X Syndrome
Researchers at UC Davis have developed a new test that will measure the protein deficit responsible for fragile X syndrome - the single-most common cause...
Engineering Autism: Mice With Extra Chromosome Region Show Many Autistic Signs
Mice who inherit a particular chromosomal duplication from their fathers show many behaviors associated with human autism, researchers report in the June 26th issue of...
National Autism Association Teams Up With 12 Organizations To End Abusive Restraint And Seclusion In...
The National Autism Association (NAA) along with 12 other organizations launched a campaign this week to spur letter writing and raise awareness about dangerous restraint...
Further Gene Mutations Linked To Autism Risk
Pieces in the complex autism inheritance puzzle are emerging in the latest study from a research team including geneticists from the University of ...
More Gene Mutations Linked To Autism Risk
More pieces in the complex autism inheritance puzzle are emerging in the latest study from a research team including geneticists from The Children's Hospital of...
New Gene For Autism Gives Hope For Future
Scientists have discovered that abnormalities in a gene important for learning and memory are a cause of autism. The University of Aberdeen finding could hold...
New Goal To Get More People With Learning Disabilities Into Work, UK
People with a learning disability will be helped into paid jobs to close the employment gap, Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People and Phil Hope,...

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Autism patients' treatment is denied illegally, group says
Consumer Watchdog asks a judge to order the state Department of Managed Health Care to require insurers to cover prescribed treatments, including a high-cost therapy...
Problem pregnancy 'autism risk'
Complications during pregnancy and giving birth later in life may increase the risk of having a child with autism, a review of dozens of studies...
Pregnancy complications may increase autism risk
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Autism treatment wait times growing, warns NDP
Critics say the backlog of autistic children waiting for crucial therapy in Ontario is growing at an alarming rate and in some cases leaving parents...
HOPE Welcomes Autism Bill's Progress Following First Reading In The Lords, UK
HOPE, the charity for adults with autism and learning disabilities, welcomes the progress of the Autism Bill through Parliament. Its third and final...
Study: Gene Mutations May Lead to Autism
Researchers continue to unearth more pieces in the complex autism inheritance puzzle. (Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com)
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[REVIEW ARTICLES] Prenatal risk factors for autism: comprehensive meta-analysis
Conclusions There is insufficient evidence to implicate any one prenatal factor in autism aetiology, although there is some evidence to suggest that exposure to pregnancy...
Association study of SHANK3 gene polymorphisms with autism in Chinese Han population
Conclusions: We suggest that SHANK3 might not represent a major susceptibility gene for autism in Chinese Han population. (Source: BioMed Central)
UC Davis Researchers Develop New Test For Fragile X Syndrome
Researchers at UC Davis have developed a new test that will measure the protein deficit responsible for fragile X syndrome - the single-most common cause...
Chromosome Abnormality Tied to Autistic Behavior in Mice
Title: Chromosome Abnormality Tied to Autistic Behavior in MiceCategory: Health NewsCreated: 6/27/2009 7:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/29/2009 (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)

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