A National Institutes of Health-funded study under way at LSU could help add to science’s understanding of two often overlooked subjects — dialects in Louisiana and a learning disability called specific language impairment.

The leader of the five-year project is LSU professor Janna Oetting, who read more »
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Omega 3 found to help children suffering Autism. Evidence from clinical and biochemical sources have indicated changes in the metabolism of fatty acids in several psychiatric disorders. We examined the phospholipid fatty acids in the plasma of a population of autistic subjects compared to mentally read more »
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Most parents never think they'll have to learn how to play with their own children.

But if a toddler is diagnosed with autism, moms and dads can spend years with the child and a therapist, drawing with crayons and playing hide and seek. Research is proving that as parents color and stack buildi read more »
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Dr. Nicholas Dodman, director of the animal behavior clinic at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, in North Grafton, Mass., and the lead author of the report, said the findings had broad implications for compulsive disorders in people and animals. They describe their fin read more »
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Study after study has failed to turn up any link between vaccines and autism. So why do people keep claiming vaccines are to blame? read more »
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Researchers may have found the the reason why autism affects boys four times more often than girls. The researchers say they have found a genetic clue that may help explain the disparity.

Current theories about autism suggest that the disorder is related to over excitability at nerve read more »
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New Autistic Research is being driven by the large number of autism cases among children of Somali immigrants living in Sweden. Scientists are now starting to do research on whether vitamin D could play a role in autism, including testing pregnant women. read more »
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Speech and language disorders can be corrected by speech therapy and other medical techniques, said speech-language pathologist Nittaya Kasemkosin, with the Division of Communication Disorders at Ramathibodi Hospital. She recommends that parents bring their children to a psychiatrist or an otolaryn read more »
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People with autism find it difficult to read social cues

Watching how a toddler responds to animations could help diagnose autism, research has suggested.

Babies usually start paying attention to movement soon after birth, and pick up information from the cues they see but children with autis read more »
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Some studies have looked at the treatment in children with autism but they have not compared with a dummy procedure raising questions around a "placebo effect".

In the latest study, carried out at six centres in the US, 62 children aged two to seven with autism were randomly assigned to receiv read more »
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