While quite a few children have delays in one developmental area or another, there are several specific signs that parents can attempt to identify as their child nears certain predetermined age milestones, as a fairly accurate means of correctly diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Some areas to watch closely include motor skills, speech, spatial memory [...]

At this point, many experts still disagree about a clear definition – the actual difference between autism and Asperger’s syndrome, which seems to be a matter of degree, mostly dealing with communication issues. Autism is known as a “spectrum” illness, as it has a wide variety of symptoms and associated conditions, the most common elements [...]

No parent wants to contemplate that their child may be suffering from autism, a devastating developmental disorder that is anticipated to affect more than one in 150 children in the United States alone. The affliction is thought to affect children from birth or the very first few months of life, and typically results in an [...]

Some parents have noted that during periods of fever, their children seem to have exhibited “less autistic” tendencies. There may be an explanation for this now as two doctors from Yeshiva University have published a study in the March 2009 Brain Research Reviews, that proposes autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may be the product of a [...]

The cost of raising a child is one of the archetypal concerns that looms over parents. Food, clothing, education, a release to adulthood. When upon this cycle is added the filter of autism, those costs can mushroom out of control. Today 1 in 150 children is diagnosed with autism, with a new case diagnosed every [...]