The latest Autism News articles published daily. Includes news on Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), Rett Syndrome, Child Disintegrative Disorder, and Asperger's Syndrome. Information is also provided about social interaction problems, lack of communication skills and emotional interpretation difficulties - causes and how to overcome them.
Additional Evidence Refutes Vaccine-Autism Link
10 February 2010
As a pivotal paper linking childhood vaccinations to autism is discredited, a new study finds no evidence that the measles vaccine-given alone or as part of a combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine-increases the...
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Autism Risk Higher When Mother Is Older, Study
09 February 2010
Researchers who studied records of all births occurring in California in the 1990s found that the risk of having a child with autism was
significantly higher when the mother was older, regardless of the father's age...
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Brain Development And Toxic Chemicals
05 February 2010
The Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) released the first-ever biomonitoring report identifying toxic chemical pollution in people from the learning and developmental disability community...
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