Researchers found that children who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with severe autism are hypersensitive to the motion of head turning.
"I was excited to join the army like everyone else, that they wouldn't treat me like I was made of glass,” Ori Weiss said.
The study's outcomes underscore the need for a holistic approach to autism support and intervention that encompasses the wider family network.
It would have taken just a little humanity for Hamas to leave this girl and her grandmother alive, but the terrorists possessed no such humanity.
The Education Ministry is considering alternative options, including after-hour programs, for autistic youth due to a shortage in special-ed staffers at daycare centers
Darkaynu’s overall goal is to teach them practical skills for living a Jewish life, encompassing Shabbat observance and kashrut.
Alexithymics have difficulty naming their feelings, expressing them, or valuing them. Emotions are remote abstractions, pesky bothers to be brushed aside, denied, and ignored
Philadelphia Eagles football team foundation has named discovery among 34 projects specializing in cutting-edge autism research.
The increase is due to expansion of the definition and an increase in awareness by parents and educational frameworks.
A new rodent study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals striking similarities in synaptic abnormalities and behavioral patterns between male and female mouse models of ASD.
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