Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives, researchers have found.
Jun 28, 2023
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I always tell parents that for many reasons, swimming should be the first sport a child learns.
Jun 26, 2023
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The true number of autistic people in England may be more than double the number often cited in national health policy documents, suggests a new study by UCL researchers.
Jun 26, 2023
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The biological roots of autism continue to perplex researchers, despite a growing body of studies looking at an increasing array of genetic, cellular and microbial data. Recently, scientists have homed in on a new and promising ...
Jun 26, 2023
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As a speech pathologist, university lecturer and parent of young children, I often get asked a version of the following:
Jun 23, 2023
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Animals use chemical substances called pheromones to communicate with each other and attract mates, mark territory, and signal danger. Plants release volatile organic compounds to attract pollinators and repel predators. ...
Jun 21, 2023
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Receiving an autism diagnosis in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s or even 60s may seem daunting, but a new study from psychologists in Bath and London finds that the link between the age at which someone gets diagnosed has little ...
Jun 15, 2023
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New research may have uncovered a relationship between changes in bacteria in the gut and a rare neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects people in a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory.
Jun 6, 2023
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People with Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, a genetic condition caused by an extra copy of human chromosome 21, experienced a remarkable increase in life expectancy during the 20th century. In the early 1900s, less than 20% ...
Jun 6, 2023
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A joint attention-based deep learning system provides good predictive performance for differentiating autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from typical development (TD), according to a study published online May 25 in JAMA Network ...
May 31, 2023
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