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Hallmarks of autism are characteristic behaviors - repetitive motions, problems interacting with others, impaired communication abilities - that occur in widely different combinations and degrees of severity among those who have the condition.
The Waisman Center’s newest clinic will help researchers learn more about language development in young children newly diagnosed with autism. The Early Autism and Communication Research Clinic (EACRC), co-directed by Susan Ellis Weismer and Morton Gernsbacher, provides developmental, communication, and diagnostic evaluation services to children between ages 2 and 3 years old who have been …
A Wisconsin autism surveillance project reported today (Feb. 8) that approximately five out of every 1,000 Wisconsin children born in 1994 display symptoms indicative of autism.
The brain's emotional center is unusually small in autistic males with the most severe behavioral impairments, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reported this month.
Like most people, I'd never known anyone with the disorder or even heard anyone talk about it.
If statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Education are to be believed, in 1992 the state of Illinois had only 322 diagnosed cases of autism among school children. In 2003, according to the same statistical source, Illinois had more than 6,000 children diagnosed as autistic.
As theories about autism spread like wildfire in the media and the general public, a panel of autism experts will reflect on the validity of four widely held - and potentially inaccurate - assumptions about the developmental disability.
Brain tests at UW-Madison suggest that autistic children shy from eye contact because they perceive even the most familiar face as an uncomfortable threat.
The Friends of Autism, a grass-roots, recently founded organization, has donated $36,000 to benefit the Waisman Center's research program on autism.
The Waisman Center was awarded $1.6 million by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to participate in a multi-institutional STAART Center (Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment Center). Awarded in May and one of eight selected by NIH in the United States, the autism center is led by Boston University School of Medicine and …
