Hi! I was a special education teacher for almost 20 years. In recent years, autism seems to be more diagnosed and recognized. All children are unique having individual gifts, talents, and needs. Children with autism are also unique with individual … Read the rest here
The size of a baby’s head is often related to neurological disorders, such as autism – which affects 1 in 88 children. Now, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified genes responsible for head size at birth by inserting human genes …
By focusing on the identification of common genetic variants, researchers have identified 57 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that predict – with a high degree of certainty – the risk that siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) …
Over the past decade, research in the field of epigenetics has revealed that chemically modified bases are abundant components of the human genome and has forced us to abandon the notion we’ve had since high school genetics that DNA consists of only fo…
A new prospective study of six-month-old infants at high genetic risk for autism identified weak head and neck control as a red flag for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and language and/or social developmental delays…
