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Vetta’s life was hard from the start – he never knew his parents. He was a baby when he was abandoned on the streets of Cambodia. Taken to a government-run orphanage, he grew up in a less than supportive environment. He became aggressive when something frustrated or angered him, erratic. [...]

At this point, many experts still disagree about a clear definition - the actual difference between autism and Asperger’s syndrome, which seems to be a matter of degree, mostly dealing with communication issues. Autism is known as a “spectrum” illness, as it has a wide variety of symptoms and associated conditions, the most common elements [...]

Communication skills for autistic children differ from the norm, including their thinking process. Children with autism find words too busy, so it’s easier to retain information through pictures. Through remembering specific pictures, autistic children can learn to understand other people and express themselves to a certain extent.
Autistic children generally learn verbal language by converting any [...]

There aren’t any parents who want to consider that their children might be suffering from autism, a life-shattering developmental disorder that’s anticipated to effect more than one in 150 children in the United States alone. Autism is generally believed to effect children from birth, or even perhaps from the very first few months of life, [...]

While quite a few children have delays in one developmental area or another, there are several specific signs that parents can attempt to identify as their child nears certain predetermined age milestones, as a fairly accurate means of correctly diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Some areas to watch closely include motor skills, speech, spatial [...]

Sadly, a definitive cure for autism, a disabling neurological disorder, has yet to be found. Affected children can grow up suffering from speech impairment, difficulties in social interaction, abnormal learning and an inability to enjoy many of life’s experiences which we all take for granted. It has been shown that early diagnosis and intervention can [...]

Although many experts disagree about a precise definition, the difference between autism and Asperger’s syndrome seems to be a matter of severity and is tied to communication issues. Autism is widely known as a “spectrum” illness, as it has a rather broad range of symptoms and associated conditions, which usually involve very limited or impaired [...]

Some parents have noted that during periods of fever, their children seem to have exhibited “less autistic” tendencies. There may be an explanation for this now as two doctors from Yeshiva University have published a study in the March 2009 Brain Research Reviews, that proposes autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may be the product [...]