Martello House, a new eight-bedded Unit at Pembroke Dock, in West Wales, that treats people with Learning Disabilities, is planning a series of free workshops to celebrate the United Nations’ World Autism Awareness Day this Thursday, 2 April. The staff at the independently run Martello House decided...
Welsh Specialist Residential Service Offers Workshops On World Autism Day
Studies On Genetic And Environmental Risk Factors For Autism Funded By $5 Million From Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest autism science and advocacy organization, has announced that it has committed $5 million to investigate genetic and environmental risk factors for autism. The project will expand and link two large-scale, multi-site studies focusing on a collaborative prospective...
Results Reported For The Study Of Fluoxetine In Autism (SOFIA) Announced By Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks has announced initial results reported for the first industry-sponsored trial of the Autism Clinical Trials Network (ACTN), the Study of Fluoxetine in Autism (SOFIA). These results showed that fluoxetine was not effective for reducing repetitive behaviors in children and adolescents with...
Exhibition Showcases Autism Talents
A unique collection of work by adults with autism, providing fascinating individual insights into what it is like to live with the condition, will be showcased in a free London exhibition as part of a creativity competition launched by The National Autistic Society (NAS). Art, photography, poetry and...
Multiple Genes Implicated In Autism - Discovery Could Lead To Drugs Targeting Gene Interactions
By pinpointing two genes that cause autism-like symptoms in mice, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that multiple, interacting genetic risk factors may influence the severity of autistic symptoms. The study, reported in the Feb. 9 advance...
Huge Attendance At Autism Sunday Service In London
Parents, carers, children and Adults with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome joined parliamentarians and dignitaries at one of the largest churches of the east sude of London, All Saint’s Church in Woodford Wells on Autism Sunday - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s...
The Bishop Of London Supports Autism Sunday
The Bishop of London. Rt.Reverend Richard Chartres is supporting Autism Sunday - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. Cathedrals, Churches and religious organisations are remembering over 60 million people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome in Prayer. Autism...
Tony McNulty MP Visits London Autism Centre
Tony McNulty MP, Minster of State at the Department for Work and Pensions and Minister for London is to meet with adults with autism during a visit to The National Autistic Society’s flagship autism centre in Ladbroke Grove, West London on Wednesday 4th February. As the minister responsible for...
UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Study Shows California’s Autism Increase Not Due To Better Counting, Diagnosis
A study by researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute has found that the seven- to eight-fold increase in the number children born in California with autism since 1990 cannot be explained by either changes in how the condition is diagnosed or counted - and the trend shows no sign of abating. Published...
Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Oklahoma Announces Autism Benefits
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma announced the addition of an autism benefit to insured groups effective their next policy year. This change will not in any way affect the current medical coverage that has always been available to children with autism. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma is...