CONFERENCES

• Boston conference:  BOSTON, Mass. (May 5, 2005) - Some 700 scientists from around the world who gathered in Boston this week shared exciting advances in understanding the causes of and treatments for autism disorders...

You can also check for on coming conferences from Yale University in your area at   http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/autism/

• UCLA May 2006 Conference on signs of autism in infants (recognition and early intervention): The focus of the conference was to share findings related to studies of infants who, later in their life, developed an autism spectrum disorder...

  Articles

• Autism and vaccines: The debate started in 1998, when Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues reviewed reports of children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and regressive developmental disorders, mostly autism...(read more). 

• Emotional bonding:  Autism being often defined solely as a social and emotional disorder, it is often understated than children with autism are unable to form attachment, or only capable to relate emotionally in a very restricted way to a very small number of people...(read more). 

• Central Nervous System Impairment Autism seems to stem primarily from abnormalities in brain structure or activity. Sophisticated technologies (like Magnetic Resonance Imaging) have allowed researchers to associate autism with a perception and connection disorder...(read more). 

• About Pharmacology:  Strategies for pharmacologic treatment of high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome. Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA. (read more).

• Language :  Language is only one component of communication and is thought to have developed late in the human evolution, emerging approximately 30000 years ago. It is a powerful tool  built through meaningful interactions with caregivers through early childhood ....(read more). 

• Language development stages:  Emotional experience helps master affective transformation.  Affective transformation is part of any learning process.  It allows an individual to gain awareness of self and of surroundings.  Affective signaling has early patterns; they have been interpreted differently but in complementary ways by Chomsky, Bates, and Greenspan...(read more)

• Motion and leaning:  Are the increasing numbers of students impacted by learning disabilities directly linked to the higher proportion of sedentary activities imposed  on  young children ( 200 hours per year spent in car seat  in 1960 against 500 in  2002, endless  hours of television, video games, harnessed in  strollers and high chairs)? Long gone are the days of walking or biking to school...(read more)
   

• Mirror neurons: Social impairment may be linked to a deficiency in the mirror neurons activity (read more)