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A traditional strategy in autism intervention may be hurting not helping.

Posted October 12, 2015

Two interesting studies this week.  The first from researchers studying a learning strategy called repetition.  As it turns out, it may impair the...

Moving away from genes OR environment towards genes AND environment

Posted October 5, 2015

On Thursday October 1st, Autism Science Foundation, Autism Speaks and the Escher Fund for Autism co-organized an online symposium which examined the...

Early Germline Events in the Heritable Etiology of ASDs

Posted October 1, 2015

On October 1st, Autism Science Foundation, Autism Speaks and the Escher Fund for Autism co-organized a webinar entitled "Early Germline Events in the...

Rare vs. common genetic variation in autism? They are both right.

Posted September 28, 2015

This week's podcast summarizes a new study which finds that in some people with autism, it takes just a few small mutations in a few key autism genes...

The sad realities behind educational services and ASD

Posted September 21, 2015

Whoops, Donald Trump did it again.  During the Republican debates, comments around vaccines and autism were made that could cause more confusion.  This at...