Recent Autism Articles

Newburyport Daily News - Registration is open for the spring season of Eagles Topsoccer , a soccer program for children ages 4 to 12 who have intellectual disabilities such as down syndrome and autism, and children with cerebral palsy. The program runs from April 26 to June ...

Louisville Courier-Journal - ... the "center of our existence," Evelyn Tolliver told lawmakers yesterday, describing her 26-year-old son, Steven. But Tolliver said she and her husband are increasingly frightened about the lack of state resources to care for Steven, who has autism ...

Tuscaloosa News - Diagnosing autism early in a child's life can be difficult and is usually done by observation and conversation with parents. Researchers have long searched for some sort of measurable, distinguishable trait in the brain to show some degree of the ...

Newsday - Nassau voters passed a referendum permitting Nassau BOCES to spend up to $14.9 million to renovate and expand its Greenvale school, which houses a special education high school for teens with emotional disabilities or autism spectrum disorders ...

Belfast Telegraph - Chief organiser Martin Mullan said today they were delighted with the response to the charity event, with the money raised to be split equally between Foyle Hospice, i.C.A.R.E. (Inishowen Children's Autism Related Education), Children In ...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Unfortunately, said Carla Piccarreto, the doors were three inches too narrow so a championship car that was scheduled to be on display during the party can't make it. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for the Autism Society and for ...

AZCentral.com - Cynthia Macluskie began to cry as she talked about her son and her feelings of failure as a mother. As a toddler, he was diagnosed with autism. His doctor said he would have to be institutionalized. As Macluskie spoke to a panel of state senators ...

Slate - Autism? It is not hard to make a genetic case, when half of all children in some schools are on stimulants, that we are now bombarding ourselves with information at a faster rate than many have evolved to process it. Take a good look at that kid you ...

Washington Post - Resize Text Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay is 19 and has published two memoirs, a book of short fiction and poetry; what is most remarkable about him, perhaps, is that a precocious literary output is only part of his story. Tito was declared hopelessly ...

Forbes - ATLANTA, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that about one in 150 American children is affected by autism. In Georgia, these statistics are one in 131. Autism is a ...