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Autism Indicator?-Name Recognition
Your child may be at an increased risk for an autism spectrum disorder if he fails to respond to his name by one year of age according to a new study from the M.I.N.D. institute at the University of...
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LuLu’s Autism – Depends on How You Look At It
Do you remember the mirror in the first Harry Potter book, the Mirror of Erised? The mirror showed Harry what he wanted to see. It was an enchanted mirror that showed the person looking at it what that...
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What is Institutional Autism?
In the early 1990s, along with the influx of Romanian adoptees into the U.S. came the term “institutional autism.” Dr. Ron Federici, a neuropsychologist was instrumental in using this term to describe...
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Does a Big Head Point to Autism?
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and the University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine, all...
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Hand Flapping
I’m guessing that lots of toddlers, even neurotypical ones, exhibit occasional “hand flapping”, especially when faced with something exciting or overstimulating. It’s that quick little, almost...
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The Relationship Between Mitochondrial Disease and Autism
New research indicates there is a relationship between mitochondrial disease and autism. Although at this point, researchers are not sure if mitochondrial disease plays a role in the development of...
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