Video Interaction for Promoting Positive Parenting in autism: yes but not quite...

" Video feedback may help babies ‘at risk of autism’ " went one write-up of the study results published by Jonathan Green and coll...

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1 in 5 children "met criteria for low language at 7 years"

Although primarily looking at the potential predictors of language outcome, the study results published by Cristina McKean and colleagues [...

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Toddler language and autism risk

I'm not going to keep you too long today as I introduce the paper by DeWayne Lazenby and colleagues [1] and some rather interesting dat...

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Autism in blind children: 30 times greater prevalence?

An intriguing paper by Rubin Jure and colleagues [1] cropped up on my autism research radar recently. Detailing the results of a study look...

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Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection and cognitive ability

So: " our findings indicate that infection with HSV-1 [ Herpes simplex virus ] is associated with reduced cognitive functioning in hea...

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Oh Koko!

We'll be sharing much more, in the coming months, about why Anne and I are a wee bit obsessed with Koko the gorilla. She's one of th...

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Autism and obstacles to medical diagnosis and treatment

The title of this post reflects the title of the paper by Marcia Datlow Smith and colleagues * which was given to me by Natasa (many thanks)...

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