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Joohee Yoon / Spectrum What Grandmothers Can Teach Science About Autism
Women who have raised a child with autism may have the ability to spot subtle signs of the condition in their grandchildren.
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Pep Boatella / Spectrum How ‘Shock Therapy’ Is Saving Some Children With Autism
Electroconvulsive therapy is far more beneficial—and banal—than its torturous reputation suggests.
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Daniel Hertzberg / Spectrum The Parents Who Jump-Started Autism Research in California
Two decades ago, a group of well-connected, politically savvy families launched a world-leading research center—and fueled a debate over whether autism can and should be cured.
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Daniel Hertzberg / Spectrum The Families That Launch Their Own Autism Studies
Historically, science has scorned single-subject trials, but parents’ at-home experiments with their kids may drive autism research forward.
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Daniel Hertzberg / Spectrum The Dangers of Snake-Oil Treatments for Autism
Desperate for therapies, parents of kids on the spectrum are sinking thousands of dollars into footbaths, detoxifying diets, and psychics.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters How Backyard Pot Farming Is Helping Kids With Autism
Parents are going where scientists fear to tread to calm their children’s autism and epilepsy symptoms.
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Scott Bakal / Spectrum Is the Most Common Therapy for Autism Cruel?
“Applied behavioral analysis” teaches social skills through unrelenting drills—which some say forces people on the spectrum to hide who they are.
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Tina Berning / Spectrum Magazine Making Room for Autism in the Workplace
Virtual job interviews and office support groups are bucking the trend of underemployment for people on the spectrum.
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(Alois Di Leo / Spectrum) The Many Sensory Worlds of Autism
Research on the extreme ends of perception could help explain why the disorder makes communication so difficult.
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Steve McDonald / Spectrum The Genetic Link Between Autism and Epilepsy
A globetrotting quest to understand the overlap may lead to treatments for both.
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Enrique De La Osa / Reuters Autism Research’s Overlooked Racial Bias
Despite popular belief, white kids aren't the only ones on the spectrum.
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Julia Yellow / Spectrum Where the Vocabulary of Autism is Failing
Terms like “low-functioning” are short on nuance and long on stigma.
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Pep Boatella / Spectrum A Brief History of Autism Research
Cautionary tales from researchers’ past mistakes
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Julia Yellow / Spectrum A Mother’s Immune System, a Child’s Autism
Researchers are studying how infections during pregnancy may affect fetal brain development.
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Pep Boatella / Spectrum Is There a Link Between Autism and Anorexia?
Researchers have begun to understand what the two conditions have in common.
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Patrick Fallon / Spectrum News The Mysterious Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Abilities
Scientists are still puzzling out how savantism relates to a person’s likelihood of being on the spectrum.
