On Sunday, Katy Perry solemnly but revealingly tweeted, "I will never forget last night. It was the most important moment thus far of what I do."The evening before, Katy had joined a host of celebrities at Comedy Central's night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs, where she posed for photographs with
2:32PM EDT October 14. 2012 - NEW YORK — A week after their "rumble" in Washington, Jon Stewart invited Bill O'Reilly back on stage in New York, this time to debate MSNBC's liberal host Chris Matthews — while both inhaled helium from red and blue balloons."Sounds like me," quipped a squeaky-voiced Matthews to CNN's John
FRIDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Autism researchers have been given the go-ahead by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to launch a small study in children with autism that evaluates whether a child's own umbilical cord blood may be an effective treatment. Thirty children with the disorder, aged 2 to 7, will receive injections
Kids with autism have a hard time communicating, which can be frustrating for autistic kids and for their peers. In this deceptively simple book, author Daniel Stefanski, a fourteen-year-old boy with autism, helps his readers understand why autistic kids act the way they do and offers positive suggestions on how to get along better with
Experts are calling a new study on autism one of the most comprehensive to date.Research published in the Journal of American Psychiatry creates new criteria for diagnosing autism in an effort to simplify a cluster of conditions into one category called "Autism Spectrum Disorder."Dr. Catherine Lord of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain
This story scares the heck out of me. This keeps me up the most at night. My son seems to have no regard to where I am in relation to him. Almost half of children with autism in a new study had run away at least once - and many of them were missing
Dr. Mark Geier has opened eight autism treatment clinics called ASD Centers across the country but is only allowed to practice at two of them — in St. Peters and Springfield, Ill.Missouri and Illinois are among the last states to seek discipline against Geier, whose hormone therapy for children with autism has been called dangerous,
LINDEN, MI – Senior Danny Leideker was crowned Linden High School homecoming king tonight to chants of "We love Danny." Leideker, 18, has Asperger's syndrome, a type of high-functioning autism. "It feels good to be king. It feels great," Leideker said. Thanks to the captain of the football team, Eddie Walterhouse, Leideker is helping the
Whether it be hand gestures, written words, or verbal phrases, communication is an important link between people. From one person to the next, communication passes on necessary messages. However, for children with autism, communication is much more difficult and autistic patients tend to have less interactions with those around them. With this in mind, researchers
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