Latest Pervasive developmental disorders Stories
Hair Cuttery fundraising during Autism Awareness Month will support Easter Seals services for families living with autism.CHICAGO, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Throughout Autism Awareness Month in April, consumers can visit more than 900 Hair Cuttery salons nationwide to "Act For Autism" to support Easter Seals services for families living with autism in their communities. Hair Cuttery fundraising throughout the country will include point-of-sale consumer donations and...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate National Autism Awareness Month and raise scholarship funds for children with autism, CasaBlanca Academy is hosting a community-wide event at Dave and Buster's on April 5th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The event is open to the public. At the event Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober will announce the winner of a high-end raffle. Prizes include a private dinner for 10 hosted and prepared by world-renowned chef Michelle Bernstein, two tickets...
LONDON and NEW YORK and SYDNEY, March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The GDS Foundation, a charitable fund for the autistic sector that was officially launched in the UK today, was inspired by very personal circumstances - Spencer Green, founder and Chairman of GDS International, a global events company, has a eight-year-old son who suffers from Asperger's, an autism spectrum disorder. The GDS Foundation aims to raise GBP100,000 for charities working with autistic spectrum children and...
Toddlers who played with a limited number of toys showed more improvement in their communication skills following parent-guided treatment than those receiving other community-based treatments.The report is the first to examine this autism treatment "“ called Hanen's More Than Words "“ for children younger than 2 showing early signs of an autism spectrum disorder. Caught early enough and treated with the right behavioral therapy, autism symptoms can improve dramatically.The paper appears...
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia study shows extensive complexity of autism geneticsNew research on the genomics of autism confirms that the genetic roots of the disorder are highly complicated, but that common biological themes underlie this complexity. In the current study, researchers have implicated several new candidate genes and genomic variants as contributors to autism, and conclude that many more remain to be discovered. While the gene alterations are individually very rare, they...
-- Annual Conference Features DIR/Floortime Expert Ricki Robinson-- HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If you live in Florida and your child has an autism spectrum disorder your options are few. Many therapeutic interventions and education options rely on traditional approaches focused on building routine skills. A new approach to treatment, however, is gaining ground thanks to the effort of a small school in Hollywood. CasaBlanca Academy offers the only program in...
MELBOURNE, Fla., Jan. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a study published in Molecular Psychiatry by Dr. Daniel Rossignol (International Child Development Resource Center, Melbourne FL, Aid for Autism) and Dr. Richard Frye (University of Texas), children with autism are more likely to have abnormal function of a key part of the cell called the mitochondria (http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2010136a.html). Mitochondria are best known for producing energy for the...
Since 1999, scientists have known that a mutation in a gene called MeCP2 (methyl-CpG-Binding protein 2) can cause Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder.Because not all people with mutations in that gene have Rett, an international consortium of researchers, including physicians from Baylor College of Medicine, created a revised criteria for diagnosing the disease.The criteria by the RettSearch Consortium appear in the current edition of the Annals of Neurology.Consistent...
FAIRFIELD, Conn., Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Autism Support Network (ASN) announced the growth of its free global autism resources database that now covers 58 countries around the world, found at http://www.AutismSupportNetwork.com. One of the leading autism support communities available online, ASN connects families and individuals touched by autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with each other, provides support and insight, and acts as a resource guide for autism treatments and therapies,...
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that when one copy of the SHANK3 gene in mice is missing, nerve cells do not effectively communicate and do not show cellular properties associated with normal learning. This discovery may explain how mutations affecting SHANK3 may lead to autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The research is currently published in Molecular Autism."We know that SHANK3 mutation plays a central, causative role in some forms of autism spectrum...
