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Study Finds Early Childhood Educators Can Effectively Screen Students For Autism In Underserved Communities

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Studies presented at IMFAR this year addresses the problem of how to effectively screen children for autism in underserved communities. Many studies have shown that the rates of identified autism are lower in racial and ethnic minorities and those with lower socio-economic status. For example, CDC autism prevalence estimates routinely show lower estimated prevalence for [...]

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Prevalence of autistic spectrum disorders in Tripoli, Libya: the need for more research and planned services.

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Autism prevalence studies are being performed in more and more locations around the globe. It’s somewhat amazing how little is known about autism prevalence outside of Europe and the U.S.. There are data from Japan and data has been coming in from Australia and elsewhere. There is very little data from Africa. Prevalence of autistic [...]

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Services for adults with an autism spectrum disorder

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Paul Shattuck is one of those people I greatly admire. He and his group ask important questions in areas which are generally given low levels of attention. Regular readers to Left Brain/Right Brain will (I hope) recognize that improving the research base for knowledge about autistic adults is a high priority of mine. I can’t [...]

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Parental socioeconomic status and risk of offspring autism spectrum disorders in a Swedish population-based study.

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

In many autism prevalence studies, higher socio-economic status (SES) for the parents is correlated with higher autism rates in the children of those families. While a conclusive reason for this has not been shown, it has been conjectured that the SES variability could be due to social influences such as access to care. A recent [...]

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