Doctors failing to spot Asperger’s in girls, warns expert

And this is an interesting interview with autism expert tony attwood: Key Learnings of Autism Thought Leaders

I guess I’ll get it next year.



United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: To Enable Children and Persons with Autism to Lead Full and Meaningful Lives is Not a Far-Off Dream


VIENNA, 2 April (UN Information Service) - By designating 2 April as World Autism Awareness Day, the United Nations General Assembly has helped to galvanize ( Read more... )

Autism in Economics? A Second Opinion

A popular claim among critics is that economic science is suffering from autism, a severe developmental disorder characterised by impairments in social relations and communication, combined with rigid and repetitive behaviour. So far, this allegation has not been substantiated. This essay explores the claim of ( Read more... )

Ann Bauer on autism, violence | Salon Life

The monster inside my son
For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew.

By Ann Bauer

I scan the story while standing, my coffee forgotten. Trudy Steuernagel, a faculty member in political science at Kent State, ( Read more... )

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Watching how a toddler responds to animations could help diagnose autism, research has suggested.
Babies usually start paying attention to movement soon after birth, and pick up information from the cues they see but children with autism often do not.
A study, published in Nature, where two-year-olds ( Read more... )

Mind Hacks: The cognitive neuroscience of eye contact

The latest Trends in Cognitive Sciences has a fantastic review article on the cognitive neuroscience of eye contact, demonstrating how this fleeting social connection has a powerful impact on the mind and brain.

Past research has shown that making eye contact has an impact on social perception ( Read more... )

U.S. Court Finds No Link Between Vaccines, Autism

A special federal court ruled yesterday that vaccines do not cause autism and that thousands of families with autistic children are not entitled to compensation, delivering a major blow to an international movement that has tried for years to link childhood immunizations with the devastating ( Read more... )