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We will now discuss the topic that no one wants to discuss: Autism and puberty Long before my daughter's hormones began to change I had thoroughly planted myself in denial. Not only would she begin puberty far, far into the...

Before I became a stay-at-home mom/zookeeper to four, I was the director of a nearby autism center. We ran all kinds of programs out of the university-based center but my favorites were the programs that involved the siblings. There was...

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 give back. Dee Snider...

[caption id="attachment_1377" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image courtsey of Renjith Krishnan[/caption] New Study between Autism and Immune System The connection between the immune system and autism spectrum disorders has been thrown around a lot by researchers and parents alike. The truth is...

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 new definition of Autism...

[caption id="attachment_889" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Image courtesy of photostock"][/caption] 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...

[caption id="attachment_828" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Image courtesy of smokedsalmon"][/caption] 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...