Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

Recent Episodes

How many people can be described as having “profound autism”?

Posted April 23, 2023 • 00:12:54

Quick answer: 26.7%. But what is “profound autism” and why is this label necessary? Have the rates of profound autism changed over time? How...

The CDC speaks on prevalence, and we listen.

Posted April 16, 2023 • 00:20:48

This week we conduct an interview with Michelle Hughes, PhD, epidemiologist with the CDC, who answers all of our questions about how many people have...

When it comes to intervention, earlier is better

Posted April 9, 2023 • 00:19:54

This week, we talk to Whitney Guthrie from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who spent the last 6 years conducting the gold-standard randomized...

The 2023 Day of Learning Quickie

Posted April 2, 2023 • 00:23:14

What do anxiety, prevalence, ketamine, other neurodevelopmental disorders, siblings, genetics, brain imaging and the autistic researcher committee at...

One in 36 and what it predicts

Posted March 26, 2023 • 00:08:21

The CDC released data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM) on Thursday. In the past 2 years, the prevalence of...