Autism News

The backlog of autistic children waiting for crucial therapy in Ontario is growing and in some cases leaving parents to pick up the tab for costly treatment, critics said Tuesday.

Washington, July 3 : A new study suggests that children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups.

The National Law Journal reports on a settlement in Michigan involving payment for autism treatments by insurance companies.

Many autism treatment centers are incorporating the use of Bentonite clay in their successful treatment regimens.

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HOPE, the charity for adults with autism and learning disabilities, welcomes the progress of the Autism Bill through Parliament.

Governor Joe Manchin will be signing an autism insurance bill Tuesday afternoon.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place an appeals court ruling that an autistic child from Ohio is not entitled to private education at taxpayer expense.

A Vanderbilt University study is backing what parents of autistic children may have suspected for years.

New laws taking effect Wednesday in Alabama will provide more care for women with cancer, coordinate services for Alabamians with autism, and use state buildings to honor American military missing in action.

New state laws taking effect Wednesday will provide more care for women with cancer, coordinate services for Alabamians with autism, and use state buildings to honor American military missing in action.

Despite having autistic spectrum disorder, Sheryl Meeuwsen is enrolled in classes at the College Internship Program in Berkeley, Calif.

Members of the Oklahoma House will be busy this summer and fall as they convene hearings on 120 government studies that have been authorized by House Speaker Chris Benge.

A measure that would expand health insurance coverage for autism and other developmental disabilities in New Jersey may soon become law.The bill requires insurers to cover the cost of autism treatments deemed medically necessary, such as physical, speech and occupational therapy, along with behavioral intervention.

During World Autism Awareness Day in April, 150 baby strollers were set up in New York's Central Park to show the condition's prevalence.

FULL of tender moments and blessed with fine central performances from British actor Hugh Dancy and Australia's Rose Byrne, the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival's closing film Adam may not be the strongest of the fortnight, but it should make even the hardest-hearted viewer smile in parts.

Mice with an extra chromosome region inherited from their fathers display many behaviors seen in people with autism, a finding that suggests that the same chromosome abnormality in humans is one cause of autism, according to Japanese scientists.

Today, the House voted to pass legislation authored by Congressman Joe Sestak to mandate the treatment of autistic children of service personnel under the military's healthcare program .

More pieces in the complex autism inheritance puzzle are emerging in the latest study from a research team including geneticists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia , and several collaborating institutions.

The duplicated chromosomal region in mice is the equivalent of human chromosome 15q11-13, the most frequent cytogenetic abnormality observed in autism, accounting for some five percent of all cases.