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N.Y. law to assist those suffering from autism disorders - A new state law is expected to help area families and those suffering from autism spectrum disorders, report Resource Center officials and some of those families.

January 2, 2012 - The Observer, NY

The Key to Autism? Fragile X Marks the Spot - On Your Side - “30% of individuals with fragile X syndrome have full autism. Another 30% have an autism spectrum disorder,” Randi Hagerman, M.D., medical director of the mind institute and professor of pediatrics at University of California Davis Medical Center, said.

December 20, 2011 - KTBS News

New Guide Offers Roadmap to IEP Process - A new guide released Tuesday provides parents with a step-by-step look at how to obtain special education services from their school district. The 26-page download from Autism Speaks offers a broad overview of the legal rights of parents and students with disabilities and walks through the process of forming an individualized education program or IEP.

August 24, 2011 - Disability Scoop

Siblings Face High Recurrence Risk for Autism - A study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics found that infants with an older autistic sibling have a near 19 percent risk that they too will develop the disorder.The study is considered the largest autism study to follow infants for sibling recurrence.

August 15, 2011 - ABC News

Autism More Present in Second Child Study Reports: Mostly Boys - There is a mystery of autism that has been published this week. The fact is that parents of a child with autism face a risk of almost one in five that their next child will also develop the disorder. What does this mean? The largest study of siblings of children with autism attempts to explain.

August 15, 2011 - Medical News Today

With support, autistic students find greater success in college - "...That rise has coincided with an era of increased acceptance of those with disabilities, which partly explains why more students with autism are enrolling in college and earning degrees.

August 14, 2011 - Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Weak Synchronization in Toddler Brains may be a Biological Marker for Autism - Now, in research that appeared in Neuron, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, San Diego have found, for the first time, a method that can accurately identify a biological sign of autism in very young toddlers. By scanning the brain activity of sleeping children, the scientists discovered that the autistic brains exhibited significantly weaker synchronization between brain areas tied to language and communication, compared to that of non-autistic children.

July 27, 2011 - Science Daily

Lifting The Hood on Autism - A gene-sequencing study of children with autism, described in an advance online publication in Nature Genetics offers a sneak peek at a technique which, combined with other approaches, may explain 40 to 50 percent of the genetic causes of the disorder within just a few years, proposes the study's lead investigator.

May 19, 2011 - Medical news

Brain Enlargement in Autism Due to Brain Changes Occurring Before Age 2- In 2005, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that 2-year-old children with autism have brains up to 10 percent larger than children of the same age without autism. Now a follow-up study by UNC researchers has found that ...

May 3, 2011 - Science Daily

New Data Shows Half of All Children with Autism Wander and Bolt from Safe Places - Findings by The Interactive Autism Network (IAN) the nations largest online autism research project...

April 20, 2011 - The Kennedy Kreiger Institute

Dane Indicted for Defrauding CDC - Poul Thorsen was indicted Wednesday on charges of wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly concocting a scheme to steal more than $1 million in autism research money from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

April 13, 2011 - Atlanta Business Chronicle

Age difference between siblings, not parental age, may indicate higher risk for autism: study - Children born more than two years after their older sibling may have less of a chance of being born with autism, a new study finds.

January 11, 2011- Daily News