Category: Autism News

Colorado has lost at least nine agencies that provide therapy for children with autism in the past year and a half, leaving hundreds of families without care and filling up waitlists across the state.  Therapy providers say the reimbursement rates they receive from the Colorado Medicaid program are too low to keep their doors open,…

LAS VEGAS — Nevada is primed to become the first in the nation to establish a diversionary court program statewide for at-risk adolescent youths with autism, a move officials say will help children on the spectrum stay on a path of success. Gov. Joe Lombardo held a ceremonial signing recently in Las Vegas for Senate…

Neuron spike: Embryonic mice with a hyperactivating mutation in UBE3A show increased numbers of a specific subset of inhibitory interneurons (green) in the brain’s outer layer. Mice with a mutation that boosts the activity of the autism-linked protein UBE3A show an array of behaviors reminiscent of the condition, a new study finds. The behaviors differ…

Former Tuckahoe convent being converted to apartments for adults with autism The former convent of the Immaculate Conception Church in Tuckahoe is being converted into independent-living apartments for people with autism, July 14, 2023. Tania Savayan, Rockland/Westchester Journal News In a former convent in Eastchester where Franciscan sisters lived for decades, workers are building apartments…

SciCheck Digest Studies have found the rate of autism is the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. But the false claim that vaccines are associated with the disorder persists. A prominent spreader of COVID-19 misinformation wrongly told legislators in Pennsylvania that autism is virtually nonexistent among the unvaccinated, citing the Amish population. Full Story Evidence has shown that the…

Friendship Counts with Kids with Autism In the new television series Parenthood, we meet a boy named Max and his parents, who are coming to grips with Max’s diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome. His parents are frustrated and overwhelmed with Max’s behavior. Finally, they hire a behavioral therapist who has a special way of not only…

Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc, through its 2023 GTCO Autism conference will be educating Nigerians on autism and providing free consultations. A statement by the organisation on Sunday explained that the conference, titled, ‘Empowering voices for autism,’ will hold in Lagos, on July 24 and 25, 2023. It added that the conference, an offshoot of…

Congenital heart malformations used to be a death sentence for many newborns. But as medical care and surgeries have improved, most infants born with heart defects — nearly 1 in 100 babies in the United States — live to adulthood. As they do, another matter has come to light: As many as half of people…

CNN  —  Some people browse TikTok and Instagram for recipes, memes and colorful takes on the news. Erin Coleman says her 14-year-old daughter uses these apps to search for videos about mental health diagnoses. Over time, the teen started to self-identify with the creators, according to her mother, and became convinced she had the same…

Izakuje Kamandoora and Ricardo Mbaeva noticed their son walking on his toes and when angry, he would hit his head against the wall. Additionally, little Denzil would randomly start spinning while standing or rub any object on his face and mouth. “Honestly speaking; no signs of autism in his early days or maybe it could…