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Since my daughter is already into her late teens I often get asked how I explained to her that she has autism. I always think long and hard about how to answer this question and wonder if there is some...

When my oldest was about three months old it became clear that there was not a parenting book out there that could help me. She did not meet her milestones. Well she did, just months, sometimes years, after they were...

The early detection of autism spectrum disorders along with any other type of developmental delay has long been agreed to be of the utmost importance when it comes to treatment. Over the years, as autism diagnosis numbers continue to climb,...

This morning my RSS fee came across a lovely article from one of my favorite parenting columnists, Sean Bean. And, yes, I said columnists as I usually read Sean’s writing in the physical copy of Parenting magazine, but I digress....

[caption id="attachment_1110" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono"][/caption] A while ago, I wrote about research being conducted at the University of London in regards to early autism diagnosis. The report that its researchers published in January’s edition of Current...

[caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Image courtesy of photostock"][/caption] A report from the January edition of Current Biology titled, “Infant Neural Sensitivity to Dynamic Eye Gaze Is Associated with Later Emerging Autism” has shed some light on heretofore unknown signs of...