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Archive for the ‘David Mandell’ Category

Prevalence and Correlates of Autism in a State Psychiatric Hospital

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

I’ve said it before: I really like David Mandell’s work. He and his team take on some very important and tough questions. I am very concerned about the lack of information on autistic adults. We don’t know an accurate prevalence. Without study ongoing into the needs of autistic adults, those of us with autistic children [...]

Interviews from IMFAR: Alex Plank brings the conference to the public

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

One of the unexpected joys of attending the IMFAR conference this year was meeting Alex Plank of Wrong Planet. I plan on writing more about Alex soon, but for the moment, let me bring you some of the interviews he did. His team is the same one that brought us the press conference. That was [...]

Video of IMFAR Press Conference (with thank to WrongPlanet)

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Alex Plank is at IMFAR with a video team and they taped the press conference. Mr. Plank runs the Wrong Planet website (where you can see this and many other great videos). The press conference was just over 1 hour. You can skip around to find parts that may interest you. Here is a rundown [...]

Autism Science Foundation announces Pre & Post Doctoral Training Fellowships

Monday, March 21st, 2011

The Autism Science Foundation has announced their pre-doctoral and post doctoral fellowships for this year. The press release is quoted below. This is an area of research funding I approve of—supporting new researchers. The more new, good people we can pull into the field, the better off autism research will be in the long term. [...]

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