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All of the programs currently being created by the national government will be failures if Phelps and his colleagues are right. Or, better said, the programs will only build jobs for a short period. The rise in employment because of federal intervention will disappear when the government can no longer...
"The environment in the early years has an active role in shaping the brain," says Geraldine Dawson, a leading autism researcher and the chief scientific officer of the advocacy group Autism Speaks. "What we see in autism may be partly the result of not engaging with the social environment. So...
Among the telltale signs of trouble at 12 months: not responding to one's name; not sharing interests through pointing and eye gaze; lack of joyful expression; an absence of babbling; difficulty establishing eye contact; and staring too long at inanimate objects (see FirstSigns.org for more early-warning signs). Investigators...
Research strongly suggests that early intervention is key to improving outcomes for at-risk children. And by identifying these children at younger ages, scientists can better determine which aspects of autism are hardwired and which are the secondary results of living with the disability. There is also growing support in...
Several studies from across the country are looking at how to draw at-risk infants into the social world so that they will develop more normally. One National Institutes of Health-funded study, at the University of Washington, begins intervention for at-risk babies at 8 months, says Dawson, who...