http://www.autismhangout.com Ausitm Hangout Headlines Feed en-us Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:22:00 CST Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:22:00 CST cevans@autismhangout.com cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uoo-ape030810.php Previous research projects have netted mixed findings, but many suggest that families dealing with autism -- especially brothers and sisters of an autistic child -- also experience symptoms similar to autism: widespread abnormalities of social interactions, communication and behavior. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:22 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.prisonplanet.com/report-reveals-that-one-percent-of-us-children-and-growing-have-autism.html The report, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report illustrates a 57-percent increase in autism cases between 2002 and 2006. A staggering 600-percent increase in the disease has occurred over the past two decades, plaguing boys more often than girls. Roughly one out of every 70 boys currently has some form of autism. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:07 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.prisonplanet.com/report-reveals-that-one-percent-of-us-children-and-growing-have-autism.html The report, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report illustrates a 57-percent increase in autism cases between 2002 and 2006. A staggering 600-percent increase in the disease has occurred over the past two decades, plaguing boys more often than girls. Roughly one out of every 70 boys currently has some form of autism. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:07 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14527322?source=most_emailed &#34These guys can sing and play at a really high level,&#39&#39 said Anderson, who is also a wildly popular music teacher at Buchser School in Santa Clara, where he started a dancing group for kids with special needs 10 years ago. &#34The singers have perfect pitch. The musicians give 100 percent effort even if they don&#39t look or talk to each other much.&#39&#39 Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:06 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/22731483/detail.html The five-minute screening targets attention, reciprocity and communication in children ages 15 to 17 months. Once it&#39s complete, a software program computes a score. If autism is suspected, the child will undergo further testing. Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:03 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.heartland.org/healthpolicy-news.org/article/27112/Controversial_Study_Connecting_Vaccines_to_Autism_Retracted.html Editors of the British medical journal Lancet announced they would retract a controversial 1998 study which sought to establish a connection between child vaccinations and autism in the wake of findings the primary author fabricated data. Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:02 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.parenting.com/article/Baby/Health/New-Autism-Facts-and-Figures The latest autism prevalence rates were published at the end of last year, and the numbers were shocking. One in every 110 kids -- and 1 in every 70 boys -- in the U.S. is living with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the report showed. That&#39s up from 1 in 150 -- and 1 in 94 boys -- only two years ago. But there is plenty of hopeful news, too: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:01 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2010/03/02/lifestyle/family/469607.txt Take it from an autistic animal behaviorist who thinks in pictures, not words: Cows are afraid of shadows. Dogs read human facial expressions and posture. Chimpanzees can recognize 200 different jungle plants. Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:26 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Autism/18764 While doctors typically caught early signs of autism, the declines were more subtle than previously suggested and most parents (83%) did not report regression in the social behaviors and skills. Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:24 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=58146 &#34The crux of this is brain development,&#34 he said. &#34If babies are exposed in the womb or shortly after birth to chemicals that interfere with brain development, the consequences last a lifetime.&#34 Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:10 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/01/autism.speech.learning/ Ryan wouldn&#39t talk. He&#39d grunt or if he became emotionally upset, he&#39d have what his parents called &#34meltdowns&#34 and would start screeching. His parents didn&#39t know what to do or how to handle him. Fortunately, when doctors told them Ryan had autism, they immediately got him into speech and occupational therapy. Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:08 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/25/jenny-mccarthy-in-time-i_n_476881.html &#34Evan couldn&#39t talk -- now he talks. Evan couldn&#39t make eye contact -- now he makes eye contact. Evan was antisocial -- now he makes friends. It was amazing to watch, over the course of doing this, how certain therapies work for certain kids and they completely don&#39t work for others ... When something didn&#39t work for Evan, I didn&#39t stop. I stopped that treatment, but I didn&#39t stop.&#34 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:53 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/02/23/narrow-autism-bill-would-pay-for-iowa-state-employees-children/ Health insurance policies for state employees would have to provide up to $36,000 a year in care for autism spectrum disorders, under a bill the Iowa Senate approved this afternoon. The treatment coverage would be only for state workers with family members who are under age 21. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:06 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.seattlepi.com/health/415743_autism22.html &#34Very nasty, very foul odor and full of undigested food particles,&#34 said Houston resident Michelle Groogan of her then 18-month-old son&#39s bowel movement. &#34It was the classic autism poop.&#34 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:05 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/usmc-gmi022210.php DALLAS – Feb. 23, 2010 – When a gene implicated in human autism is disabled in mice, the rodents show learning problems and obsessive, repetitive behaviors, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:04 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.theautismnews.com/2010/02/23/why-autism-is-different-for-girls/ We may think it only affects boys. But the female variant is often much harder to spot – and that means thousands of girls may be going undiagnosed. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:13 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/parents-of-children-with-autism-worldwide-can-now-help-their-children-learn-at-home-84947687.html NEW YORK, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In the past, parents of children with autism worldwide had little hope of finding effective and affordable treatment services for their child. Today, parents are discovering that they can now easily apply the latest research to help their child learn at home. Evidence-based research suggests that a key to effective learning is the use of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to teach children with autism. A company making ABA best-practice treatment tools accessible to parents around the world through the Internet is Rethink Autism (http://www.rethinkautism.com). Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:26 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.sltrib.com/technology/ci_14449174 The designers had long heard that the software held autistic children rapt for hours. So they connected with the local autism community in Boulder, Colo., and started hearing about how 3D software might appeal to autistic kids. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:25 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.autismsupportnetwork.com/news/temple-grandin-autism-interview-443521 &#39Who do you think made the first stone spear?&#34 asks Temple Grandin. &#34That wasn&#39t the yakkity yaks sitting around the campfire. It was some Aspberger sitting in the back of a cave figuring out how to chip rocks into spearheads. Without some autistic traits you wouldn&#39t even have a recording device to record this conversation on.&#34 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:47 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/6871461.html “Very nasty, very foul odor and full of undigested food particles,” said Houston resident Michelle Groogan of her then 18-month-old son&#39s bowel movement. “It was the classic autism poop.” Garrett was diagnosed with autism when he was 2, and Michelle Groogan began researching ways to ease her son&#39s digestive issues, which she felt were autism-related. It wasn&#39t long before she came across the Gluten Free Casein Free, or GFCF, diet. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:35 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/childrensspecializedhospital/42005/ New Brunswick, NJ — February 04, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Children’s Specialized Hospital, New Jersey’s preeminent provider of pediatric rehabilitation services and the largest comprehensive children’s rehabilitation system in the country, has created and launched Make Friends with Autism. This brand new multilevel program is the first of its kind anywhere in the country. Make Friends with Autism is designed to educate our business partners and communities about autism and provide the tools necessary to support positive community partnerships. This program is made possible by the Kohl’s KidsAbilities program at Children’s Specialized Hospital through the generosity of the Kohl’s Cares for Kids® program. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2540477.html A lack of eye contact, smiling or babbling are signs of autism, and researchers focused on those developmental markers during examinations in a five-year period. They concluded that autism&#39s symptoms are not evident in children under 6 months. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:30 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.ethiopianreview.com/news/31946 Researchers found that of 219 children born before the 26th week of pregnancy, 8 percent met the criteria for an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at age 11. That compared with none of 153 classmates who were born full-term and included in a comparison group. The ASD rate was far higher than that in the general population, which experts estimate to be somewhere between one and nine cases per 1,000 children, depending on how strictly the disorders are defined. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:56 CST cevans@autismhangout.com A nasal spray containing the 'cuddle hormone' oxytocin can ease some of the symptoms of autism, research shows. People with autism who used the spray became more sociable and trusting. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1250936/Spray-version-cuddle-hormone-ease-symptoms-autism.html#ixzz0fYjmEDXI DELAYED BRAIN DEVELOPMENT LINKED TO &#39HUG-AVOIDANCE&#39 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:20 CST cevans@autismhangout.com http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1250936/Spray-version-cuddle-hormone-ease-symptoms-autism.html A nasal spray containing the &#39cuddle hormone&#39 oxytocin can ease some of the symptoms of autism, research shows. People with autism who used the spray became more sociable and trusting. Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:19 CST