Autism is considered a developmental disorder inhibiting socialisation and some common signs and symptoms include difficulty in eye contact, difficulty in communication and social interaction, sensory...
How families with disabilities travel together Bethany Hildebrandt is meticulous about planning trips around her family’s needs as her eldest child, Kaylee, has cerebral palsy. Payton...
In a recent study published in the journal Autism Research, a group of researchers examined the association between family history of neurodevelopmental (NDD) and neuropsychiatric (NPD)...
When Cara Darmody began her autism campaign just over two years ago, she never believed it would be a short one. True to her word, after...
“Having butterflies in the stomach” is not just a figure of speech: Our stomach and our emotions move together. This phenomenon has been measured by Giuseppina...
The parents of Tipperary autism campaigner Cara Darmody have claimed their family is being given preferential treatment by the HSE because of her high-profile protest. Her...
Four-year-old Ahmeir Diaz-Thornton couldn’t sit still in class and rarely ate his lunch. While his preschool classmates spoke in perfect sentences, Ahmeir had trouble pronouncing words....
What it’s like to fly Breeze Airways from Vero Beach, Florida Scenes from flights Nov. 10 and Nov. 20, 2023, as examples of what columnist Laurence...
Toddlers with autism have cerebral cortexes — often referred to as “gray matter” — that are roughly 40% larger than those of children without the developmental...
In a recent study published in the journal eLife, researchers evaluate the feasibility of optically pumped magnetometer-based magnetoencephalography (OPM-MEG) for monitoring neural oscillations during brain development....
Summary: Brain overgrowth in utero may explain the varying severity of autism in children. Researchers used brain organoids from toddlers to show that larger brain growth...
On a family trip to Walt Disney Co.’s. Orlando theme parks, Nicole Thibault’s 2.5-year-old son began experiencing meltdowns—and not in the standard toddler sense. Everything he...