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How Music Can Help Non-Verbal Children With Autism

Auditory-Motor Mapping Training as an Intervention to Facilitate Speech Output in Non-Verbal Children with Autism: A Proof of Concept Study Finally, a protocol has been designed that actually tests a way to use…
Stress, Anxiety and Depression in the Fathers of Children with Autism

There have been countless studies that focus on Mother's of children with Autism, or even Parents of Autistic Children. I remember reading a story where one study of mothers reflected that the amount of stress they…
The Amish Don’t Get Autism, and They Aren’t Vaccinated

Bloggers are talking about the autism-vaccine link these days, and some of them have brought up a little investigation done in 2005 by United Press International reporter Dan Olmsted. Olmsted wanted to know whether th…
Geek + geek = Autism?

The theory posited by Simon Baron-Cohen, the British psychologist who suggested that when “geeks marry geeks”, they create children with autism. He uses the term, “assortative mating” to sugg…
Link Between Multiple Sclerosis and Autism

If you google the two conditions together you will see an interesting trend of articles and studies. Those studies are mostly about parents with MS having children with autism. This suggests a link they are currently s…
Mercury-Autism Research Scandal

Our doctors told us that studies showed mercury in vaccines doesn’t cause autism, and studies showed the measles virus in the MMR vaccine doesn’t cause autism. Therefore, they concluded, vaccines don’t…
Recurrence Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Baby Siblings Research

Recurrence Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium Study Source: http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~kdobkins/O,2011.pdf Abstract Objective: The recurrence risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is e…
Autism Study: Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism

Source: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2011/papers/0782/paper0782.pdf Abstract The cognitive science of religion is a new field which explains religious belief as emerging from normal cognitive processes…
Study finds that having ancestors that had mercury poisoning increases risk of Autism

Ancestry of Pink Disease (Infantile Acrodynia) Identified as a Risk Factor for Autism Spectrum Disorders Source - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15287394.2011.590097?journalCode=uteh20 Abstract Pink disease…
Wanted: Parents of Children Ages 5-12

I am a doctorate student in clinical psychology at Baylor University. I am beginning to collect data for my dissertation, and I am hoping that you will help me. My study is interested in stress and ways of coping with…