Autism News

With flu season drawing to a close, many are wondering whether they made the right decision regarding vaccination and deciding their choice for next year.

Kristin Cavallari received a harsh response when she announced that she does not plan on vaccinating her children because of her concerns about autism.

To test the effectiveness of messages designed to reduce vaccine misperceptions and increase vaccination rates for measles-mumps-rubella .

Kristen Cavallari announced she and her husband Jay Cutler are not planning on vaccinating their children during an interview with Fox News Thursday.

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Before Jenny McCarthy became an internationally renowned, anti-vaccine autism scientist, she was a model : www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/jenny-mccarthy-playboy .

Keyham Kolts have already teamed up with the Devon FA and Plymouth City Council to offer children with autism or Asperger's Syndrome the chance to take part in training sessions.

A warning was issued this week that up to 340 passengers on two Air New Zealand flights between Christchurch and Auckland, on March 2 and 4, could have been exposed to measles.

Crystal Fox of Tempe, Arizona tried to keep her two special-needs children in public schools.

ASD consists of a group of developmental disabilities that cause behavioral, communication and social challenges.

Vaccines do not cause autism. That was part of the message Wednesday during a symposium held at the University of North Florida.

ASD consists of a group of developmental disabilities that cause behavioral, communication and social challenges.

The UC Davis MIND Institute has been named an Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center , through a prestigious grant from the * Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health - a distinction held by only 15 neurodevelopmental centers nationwide committed to the ... (more)

Harper, R-Miss., was a co-author of the bill in the House. It passed the Senate Tuesday.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Boys are at greater risk than girls for neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.

A hopelessly romantic OCD sufferer says she is unable to meet Mr Right because her illness means she is terrified of love.

The Nw York City Health Department is investigating an outbreak of measles in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, after seven adults and nine children were diagnosed with the highly contagious infection.

Leonard Abbeduto, director of the UC Davis MIND Institute, announced that with the coveted designation as an Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, "We also become part of a network of 14 other centers that collaborate beyond what one center can do on its own."

Community Access Unlimited this past weekend staged a very special production, "The Tales of Beatrix Potter," a play written by a young man with Asperger's syndrome, a component of the autistic spectrum.