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Study: Minority Students Less Like to Be Identified With Autism

The rates of autism for students of all races is on the increase, but students who are black, Hispanic, or American Indian are less likely to be i...

2012 Autism Distribution by CSPD Region

[image] [image] [Montana CSPD Region Numbers 2009.GIF]

Webinar - Prevalence, Characteristics, and Health Care of School-Aged Children with a Parent-Reported History of Autism Spectrum Disorder-A Look at Recent National Survey Data.

In this webinar, Dr. Blumberg presents data from the recently released 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health and the 2011 Survey of Pathways...

Webinar - Prevalence, Characteristics, and Health Care of School-Aged Children with a Parent-Reported History of Autism Spectrum

In this webinar, Dr. Stephen Blumberg, Acting Associate Director for Science for the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National Center o...

CDC-HRSA report: Changes in Prevalence of Parent-reported Autism Spectrum Disorder in School-aged U.S. Children: 2007 to 2011–2012

Read the CDC-HRSA report here.

1 in 50 School Kids Has Autism, CDC Says

A government survey of parents says 1 in 50 U.S. schoolchildren has autism, surpassing another federal estimate for the disorder. Health offici...

California Special Education autism counts, ages 3-5 over the past decade

[Screen Shot 2013-03-04 at 9.45.15 AM.png] The California Department of Developmental Services data, once called “the gold standard” for autism epi...

Researchers Detect an Anti-Autism Advantage in Females

A new, preliminary study suggests that developing females are much better able than males to fight off genetic pressure to develop symptoms of aut...

Autism risk up in premature births

PREMATURE babies born earlier than 32 weeks have higher rates of psychiatric disorders at age seven than babies born at full term, Melbourne resea...

Social Communication Disorder—is it "Autism Lite?"

"Social Communication Disorder is described (in my opinion) as a sort of “autism lite,” where the person has some features of autism but not enough t...

Autism: a Q&A with Uta Frith

Autism was not identified before the 1940s. Weren’t there any autistic people before this? Autism was not a new phenomenon starting in the midd...

Autism diagnoses in Israel jump almost fivefold since 2004

The number of Israelis diagnosed with autism has jumped fivefold ov the last eight years, according to the Social Affairs Ministry’s 2011 survey o...

Rise in New Jersey Autism Prevalence Documented in New Study

Newly published research led by Walter Zahorodny, PhD, of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), shows that over a four y...

Seeing ASD in 3D - A lifespan perspective on Autism Spectrum Disorder

In this webinar, you will learn about: Leo Kanner: The original outco...

New Genetic Mutations May Keep Some Mental Disorders from Dying Out

People with certain mental disorders, such as schizophreniaand autism, tend to have fewer children than the average person, suggesting that these ...

Application of DSM-5 Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder to Three Samples of Children With DSM-IV Diagnoses of Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Abstract Objective Substantial revisions to the DSM-IV criteria for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have been proposed in efforts to inc...

Application of DSM-5 Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder to Three Samples of Children With DSM-IV Diagnoses of Pervasive Developmental Disorders

With much attention focused on the change from DSM-IV to DSM-5 criteria for diagnosing autism, it is good to see more data coming out. As noted on...

Is Autism an “Epidemic” or Are We Just Noticing More People Who Have It?

Even though autism is now widely discussed in the media and society at large, the public and some experts alike are still stymied be a couple of t...

Autism, immunity, inflammation, and the New York Times

On Saturday, the New York Times online ran a piece from its Sunday Review Opinion pages entitled, “An immune disorder at the root of autism.” The p...

Autism may be underdiagnosed in girls due to gender bias

A new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry explores the differences in diagnostic characteristics ...