Autism News

The Millburn High School Autism Awareness Club is hosting a presentation by a public speaker and author with pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified , a form of autism.

Tribune photo by Garrett Valenzuela -- Newton Learning Center teacher Katy Nickles helps a student with her language arts material Tuesday afternoon at the facility on Greenbrae Drive.

These are all key questions in a quiz designed to identify symptoms autism as well as its milder form, Asperger syndrome.

Meghan Davis/Special to the News Sentinel Lydia Brown and her father, Michael, play with LEGO figurines at the Autism Society of East Tennessee's monthly LEGO Club.

As National Autism Awareness Month concludes, the Southwest Educational Development Center is hosting its 13th annual Autism Conference at Canyon View High School on Saturday.

How she sat perched atop a monkey bar in her elementary school playground and watched her classmates play.

Although autism awareness has increased in northern New Brunswick, it still has a long way to go, says a British expert who has a personal connection to the area.

They say a mother always knows when something is not quite right with her child.

Alpine Learning Group and The Epic School are joining forces to host 'Get Fit for Autism' this Sunday, April 27 at Life Time Athletic, 10 Van Riper Road, Montvale.

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What do you call someone who sows misinformation, stokes fear, abets behaviour that endangers people's health, extracts enormous visibility from doing so and then says the equivalent of "Who? Me?" I'm not aware of any common noun for a bad actor of this sort.

Please read this article; May 8, 2013 by Joe Martino . *The debate over vaccines continues as an Italian court ruled in favor of the Bocca family whose nine-year-old son became autistic after receiving the MMR vaccine.

He is one of only 40 people in the world to unlock their inner Einstein with a condition called Acquired Savant Syndrome.

Most of Sharyl Attkisson 's interview on CNN's Reliable Sources Monday focused on her critical reports of the Obama administration, but Brian Stelter brought up another issue Attkisson's gotten some flak for: her past reporting on a link between vaccines and autism.

Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has accused the liberal watchdog group Media Matters of targeting her reporting, and believes someone may have even paid for them to do it.

To Your Heath column is a venue for Jefferson County Health Center to provide health information that will benefit The Fairfield Ledger's readers.

The month of April has long served as Autism Awareness Month, and in an effort to further the goals and aspirations of Autism awareness, singer and producer Nick Lachey has teamed up with the iconic Swiss chocolatier Lindt to raise money for the cause.

Research in this position will combine single-molecule imaging and other super-resolution microscopy techniques, with computational and molecular approaches to study the mechanisms of synaptic transmission at individual synapses and dysregulation in synaptic function in neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly Fragile X syndrome and autism.

A number of celebrities continue to actively promote the notion that vaccines in general, or that receiving too many vaccines too quickly, can lead to autism.

While researching my earlier diary on vaccination and misuse of statistics, I landed at mothering.com as part of a Google Search.