Sentences with phrase «autistic children find»

Autistic children find it extremely difficult to make connections with other individuals.

Not exact matches

I happened on being wheat free 9 years ago, on my own from something I read on the web in regard to autistic children — actually found it not at all difficult to change, and as a result my life - long cronic anemia was gone in 6 weeks and also the osteoporosis in my 60's when I had 10 fractures — wrists, ribs, vertebrae, and a knee.

Looking closely at the data, researchers discovered that moms who took folic acid early in pregnancy had a 39 % lower risk of having a child with autistic disorder although no association was found with Asperger syndrome or PDD - NOS

A common problem for parents with autistic children is to find the right resources.

But researchers at Upstate say testing the microRNA found in the saliva of a toddler can help doctors determine if a child is autistic sooner than that.

The team found that mothers passed only half of their structural variants on to their autistic children — a frequency that would be expected by chance alone — suggesting that variants inherited from mothers were not associated with autism.

Examining the digestive tracts of 12 children with behavioral disorders, nine of them autistic, the researchers found intestinal inflammation, which they pinned on the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine.

It is easy to sympathize with parents of autistic children who desperately want to find a cure, but this has led to various pseudoremedies whose efficacy and safety have been challenged by science.

According to Risch, the findings do more than simply change the picture of risk for having another autistic child.

The study finds no evidence of cellular intestinal inflammation, lactase deficiency, or «leaky gut» specific to autistic children with GI symptoms, according to the new research, led by Timothy Buie, MD, Rafail Kushak, PhD, and Harland Winter, MD, of MassGeneral Hospital for Children,children with GI symptoms, according to the new research, led by Timothy Buie, MD, Rafail Kushak, PhD, and Harland Winter, MD, of MassGeneral Hospital for Children,Children, Boston.

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

This is also an important finding given that 10 % to 25 % of Canadian children and adolescents — and 45 % to 85 % of autistic children — have sleep problems.»

Situations that are normally socially rewarding fail to activate brain - reward circuitry in autistic children, Izuma adds, so they may also find the idea of a good social reputation less rewarding.

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego analyzed medical records of 48 autistic children and found that small head circumference at birth, coupled with a sudden excessive increase in head size during a child's first year, appears to be linked with autism.

By tracking the subjects» eye movements and brains, Dalton and Davidson found that the autistic children spent less time fixing their gaze on the eyes in the photographs.

We hope to find out what type of skewed immune response the typical autistic child has and to isolate toxic exposures, such as proximity to highways or toxic waste dumps.»

Past that age, Courchesne found, the rate of brain growth slowed in autistic children, falling behind that of ordinary children.

It is well known that children on the autistic spectrum can also undergo a similar regression and have EEG findings similar to those found in LKS patients.

In research on more than 700 families with an autistic as well as a neurotypical child, Pessah and his colleagues have found in the autistic child a significant reduction in immunoglobulins and an abnormal profile of cytokines, which are critical to immune response.

She hopes this finding will inspire new therapies for autistic children: «If you have an intervention that jumpstarts this system — if you can get a child to think, «Hey, that's the face I feel when I'm angry» — in the long run you should see improvement.»

Some autistic children, for example, like to be hugged or have their shoulders pressed on — they find such touching calming, and it allows them better control over their anxiety and hyperactivity.

About the same time, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y., focusing on families with one autistic child, reported that an estimated 10 to 30 percent of all reported cases of autism may be caused by new (or spontaneous) mutations in the number of copies of genes in children (that were not found in either parent).

A May study in Nature found that 65 percent of autistic children share a set of mutations that may regulate genes known to influence communication among brain cells.

The Italians for example have found that children who are autistic have in many cases a leaky intestine.

Although the researchers found no change in the coding region of the gene, they did find that autistic children were much more likely to have inherited a shortened form of the genes promoter — the DNA sequence that serves as the on ramp for the cellular machinery that will express the gene.

Wigler's theory gave autism researchers a new place to look for answers, and other researchers found that the genomes of autistic children did turn out to have de novo CNVs — large stretches of their genetic code had been deleted or duplicated.

«In planning such research it was essential that a child psychiatrist be involved to vet the accurancy of any diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder, so that any laboratory finding was placed within an accurate clinical context.

Now, patterns found in autistic children's genomes — the complete set of genetic instructions inside cells — ...

They examined the chromosomes of autistic children, and found that some 5 percent have chromosomal abnormalities that can be seen under the light microscope.

The director founded his namesake Yogananth Andiappan Community (YAC) as a non-profit volunteer organization to teach yoga to groups like domestic workers, pregnant teens, autistic children, cancer patients, and more.

A pilot study found that ketogenic diets help autistic children: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12693778.

Calcium can of course be found in many other foods such as cheese — which I believe is okay for autistic children once their GI tract is somewhat healed (cf «the specific carbohydrate diet»).

They found that more than half of the children showed improved cognition (ability to think), and a reduction in autistic behaviours.

Researchers have found that some mothers of autistic children create antibodies to the brain tissue of their fetus, meaning the child is a born with a brain already developmentally imbalanced by immune destruction.

Researchers in England, Norway, and at the University of Florida have found peptides (breakdown products of proteins) with opiate activity in the urine of a high percentage of autistic children.

Their actions are unusual, with others finding it hard to understand they the autistic child is doing.

Suggesting genetics and the resulting social environment in which kids are raised may be more to blame than anything.Parents of Autistic Children Show Similar TraitsThe study, conducted by the California Institute of Technology looked at how parents of autistic children evaluated facial expressions and found that they gauged faces in exactly the same way as people with the disorder, despite the fact that they were not classified as autistic theAutistic Children Show Similar TraitsThe study, conducted by the California Institute of Technology looked at how parents of autistic children evaluated facial expressions and found that they gauged faces in exactly the same way as people with the disorder, despite the fact that they were not classified as autistic theChildren Show Similar TraitsThe study, conducted by the California Institute of Technology looked at how parents of autistic children evaluated facial expressions and found that they gauged faces in exactly the same way as people with the disorder, despite the fact that they were not classified as autistic theautistic children evaluated facial expressions and found that they gauged faces in exactly the same way as people with the disorder, despite the fact that they were not classified as autistic thechildren evaluated facial expressions and found that they gauged faces in exactly the same way as people with the disorder, despite the fact that they were not classified as autistic theautistic themselves.

There have already been attempts to use VR to help autistic children and adults find new ways of coping.

One of the most challenging issues for parents raising an autistic child is finding and securing services for that child.

Conclusion: It is clear from our findings that mothers of autistic children have higher parenting - related stress and psychological distress as compared to controls.

In addition, the results indicated that single mothers of children with autistic disorder were found to be more vulnerable to higher level of depression than mothers living with a partner.

Scattone et al. (2012) found that social stories which are developed effectively and introduced in the natural environment targeting these three autistic children have proven to have a decrease in disruptive behavior when the intervention was implemented to all samples.

Fortunately for parents of an autistic child, information is not difficult to find.

Hannah Morgan assesses a study on parents» experience of support for transition to adulthood for children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions and finds that although they want to support their children, they themselves are not always supported by services.

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