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For years, parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have mistakenly passed...(ASD) have mistakenly passed along the erroneous statistic that 80% of marriages of such parents will end...Unfortunately, many couples raising children with autism spectrum disorders reflect this attitude of lower...

...challenges are at an even higher risk. As an alarming statistic, drowning is the number one leading cause of death...number one leading cause of death of children with autism. Children with autism tend to have three characteristics,...of death of children with autism. Children with autism tend to have three characteristics, which when...

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...approaches alone aren't enough. Here's what the research shows and how to use both. Why Autistic Children Struggle With Sleep. Sleep difficulties in autism aren't one problem. They're a cluster of related challenges: difficulty falling asleep, frequent night wakings, early morning waking, and irregular...

...enough to identify most chromosome disorders. CMA is the test that finds conditions like 22q11.2 deletion syndrome or Angelman syndrome when a child has autism, developmental delays, or unexplained intellectual disability. Whole exome sequencing (WES) reads the protein-coding portions of your child's genome,...

When NIH autism research funding dropped 26% under recent federal...Over the past decade, SFARI (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) has funded more than 2,100...Simons Foundation SFARI remains the anchor for autism research. Their grants range from exploratory pilot...

...Consensus Is So Hard to Find. Three factors make AAC research especially difficult to synthesize. First, the populations studied vary widely. A child with autism and intact motor skills faces different communication barriers than a...

...across nearly every intervention parents consider: gluten-free diets for autism, screen time limits for ADHD, optimal therapy intensity, medication timing,...different people. A study on speech therapy outcomes for three-year-olds with autism who are minimally verbal isn't measuring the same thing as a study on speech...

...five-year-old around the kitchen while a liquid antibiotic drips onto the floor. For families with children who have disabilities, particularly those with autism or sensory sensitivities, getting medicine into your child can become a daily battle that impacts treatment outcomes and family stress levels. The...