What Every Family Needs to Hear About Autism and Early Intervention: Insights From Cristina Busu

A recent study found that family participation in therapy directly improves children’s social communication and emotional ...
Psychology Today

What Hoarding Tells Us About Connection and Isolation

Hoarding may represent a misfiring of one of the brain’s oldest imperatives: to seek safety in connection. Where human bonds ...
Frontiers

Understanding and Treating Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Ethology, Evolution, and Early Development

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence is increasing internationally, with an estimate of 1:31 in the USA. While such an ...
Frontiers

Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder based on eye tracking technology using deep learning models

Introduction: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often find it difficult to maintain eye contact, which is vital for social communication. Eye tracking (ET) technology helps determine how ...
IEEE

Extended Reality Check: Evaluating XR Prototyping for Human-Robot Interaction in Contact-Intensive Tasks

Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) has the potential to improve efficiency and safety in the user-centered development of human-robot interaction. However, the validity of using XR prototyping for user ...
Detroit Free Press

Michigan child care providers say they're without resources to properly serve kids with autism

Child care providers say they don't have sufficient resources to meet the needs of children under their care who have special needs, most often autism. (This article has been updated to correct an ...
The Center Square

Congressional Conflicts: Lawmakers dump Tylenol stock before autism controversy

(The Center Square) — Before President Trump warned pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol, three members of Congress dumped stock in the Fortune 500 company that makes the popular painkiller -- ...
Grand Forks Herald

Art for Life Program participants to be recognized in Pekin, North Dakota

GRAND FORKS – A special event to recognize those who have participated in the Art for Life Program is set for noon-1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, in the Nelson County Arts Council Auditorium in Pekin, North ...
The Lancet

Artificial intelligence for tracking social behaviours and supporting an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis: systematic review and meta-analysis

aClinic for Autism and Neurodevelopment (CAN) Research, Brain and Mind Centre, Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Australia bChild ...
CNN

As the administration focuses on autism, many in the community say they need support, not a ‘cure’

At a very young age, Maxwell Huffman knew that he absorbed the world around him differently than most of his classmates. He was diagnosed with autism as a teenager, and nearly 20 years later, Huffman ...
PBS

What to know about leucovorin, unproven autism drug touted by Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would repurpose an old, generic drug as a new treatment for autism, it came as a surprise to many experts — including the ...