Researchers Share Guidelines for Inclusive Language in Autism Research
Authors advocate for a shift in both how autism research is conducted and communicated
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Autistic Defendants Are Being Failed by the Criminal Justice System
The study found that only half of autistic people were considered by the police to be vulnerable adults
Tool for Accurately Detecting Autism in Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers
Research into early screening tool demonstrates it identifies autism more than three years earlier than traditional testing
Early Neural Activity Associated with Autism
EEG measurements in infants predicted ASD symptoms in toddlers
Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Treat Autism
Virtual reality games could help individuals with certain neurological conditions shift their perceptions of time
Is Autism Truly a Spectrum? New Research Suggests Classification More Complex
The study findings may have vast implications with the way professionals classify autism
Autism Behaviors Show Unique Brain Network Fingerprints in Infants
The findings help pinpoint brain regions involved in particular aspects of ASD
Unique Patterns of Neural Communications Found in Brains of Children with Autism
MRI scans of school-age children's brains showed unique patterns of neural communication involving the amygdala
Largest Autism Sequencing Study to Date Yields 102 Genes Associated with ASD
The study reports significant progress toward teasing apart the genes associated with ASD from those associated with intellectual disability and developmental delay
New Biomarker Panel Could Accelerate Autism Diagnoses
About 17 percent of kids with autism identified with metabolic blood test