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Childswork Supports Dee Snider & Friends As They Jam For Autism!

Childswork Supports Dee Snider & Friends As They Jam For Autism!

Childswork was out on the local Long Island scene last Thursday April 19th at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury to show our support for autism awareness and promote all the great things celebrities are doing to [...]

New Study Supports Link between Autism and the Immune System, Cytokines

New Study Supports Link between Autism and the Immune System, Cytokines

The connection between the immune system and autism spectrum disorders has been thrown around a lot by researchers and parents alike. The truth is that there is more about autism that we don’t know than we [...]

ChildsWork News, Jan. 24, 2012: Talking About the New Autism Diagnosis

ChildsWork News, Jan. 24, 2012: Talking About the New Autism Diagnosis

Unless you’ve been cut off from the news for the past couple of days you have likely heard the big news about the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and its [...]

Skill-Building Workshops for Autistic Children Teach More than Anticipated

Skill-Building Workshops for Autistic Children Teach More than Anticipated

Autism research is a real hot-button topic for many reasons. With the diagnosis of high-functioning autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on the rise, finding the causes of these disorders and the methods needed to treat them are [...]

Simons Foundation Gift to MIT Means Big Leaps in Autism Research

Simons Foundation Gift to MIT Means Big Leaps in Autism Research

A $26.5 million grant given to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the Simons Foundation could mean a breakthrough in autism research in 2012. This grant will go towards the construction and endowment of the Simons [...]