Spectrum: Autism Research News

Knocking down the gene that codes for the proteins normalizes the vocalizations.

Minimally verbal autistic preschoolers gained new words and phrases in a head-to-head comparison of two interventions.

Autistic people tend to drop out of Medicaid once they reach adulthood in states that don’t waive the income restrictions on enrollment.

Autistic toddlers who receive a personalized intervention at about 18 months of age gain more abilities than those who start the therapy nine months later.

A growing proportion of researchers has reached such “super principal investigator” status, but the distribution is not even across demographic groups.

By revealing differences between autistic and non-autistic children, it could help identify autism in babies.

The most comprehensive study of neurodevelopmental conditions in Kenya and South Africa ever conducted shares preliminary results and lessons.

The dual diagnosis frequently co-occurs with anxiety, depression and developmental and language delays.