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Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Conference Call

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee will hold a conference call on a draft letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on issues relating to seclusion and restraint. The call is September 7, 2011 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Please join us for a conference call of the IACC on Wednesday, September [...]

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Dementia in intellectual disability: a review of diagnostic challenges

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

A study out of South Africa looks at Dementia in individuals with Intellectual Disability (ID). The basic idea to me is an excellent question: how to evaluate and support intellectually disabled individuals as they go through dementia. When parent’s say, “what will happen to my kid after I die”, they may not even be considering [...]

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Internet survey shows high autism rate in unvaccinated children

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Informal surveys are fraught with problems. There can be all sorts of biases. Many ways for the data to be skewed one way or another. A great example of this was the Generation Rescue phone survey. The results were all over the map, and clearly flawed. Many of the results pointed to higher autism rates [...]

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Effects of intranasal oxytocin on social anxiety in males with fragile X syndrome

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

There have been a few papers in the recent past on oxytocin and autism. Oxytocin is a hormone and is considered to have a rule in social cognition. Fragile-X is a syndrome which results in autism or autistic-like symptoms. As such, it isn’t surprising that someone has looked into oxytocin and Fragile-X. This study comes [...]

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