Mumbai: It's World Autism Awareness Day on Monday, and over 300 iconic landmarks around the world will be bathed in blue light, to show support for 'Light It Up Blue', a worldwide initiative to help raise awareness about autism. While Rashtrapati Bhavan in the Capital city will change colour to show its true blue support for the campaign, the city's civic body has plunged the hopes of many in darkness,...
11:19 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Mumbai: It is World Autism Awareness Day on Monday. At least 1 million people in India live with autism, which is a condition that is still very poorly understood. For many parents, one of the biggest challenge is teaching the world to adapt. From birth, Chitra Iyer knew that something wasn't quite right with her son Shravan. As an infant, he never made eye contact. "We noticed that he was...
09:21 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Bollywood actor Salman Khan says that autism is a disorder, not a disease. ...
08:22 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Mumbai: At least 1 million people in India live with autism, a condition that is still very poorly understood. For many parents of children with disabilities, the big challenge is teaching the world to adapt. From birth, Chitra knew that something wasn't quite right with her son Shravan, who as an infant, he never made eye contact. Chitra said, "We noticed that he was not doing the regular coo-ing or...
08:48 AM, Dec 06, 2011
London: Three-month-old babies can recognize human voices and make out when your're sad. A UK study shows that the brain areas devoted to processing speech, develop quicker than suspected and could provide new insights into autism. Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London started by getting a group of babies adjusted to brain scanners, reports the journal Current Biology. The tots, aged between three and seven months,...
11:58 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Actress Kate Winslet is planning to write a photo book to spread awareness about autism. After narrating the documentary "A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism", about an Icelandic woman's fight to find a way for her autistic son to communicate, Kate established the Golden Hat Foundation, which offers speech training to those who live with the disease, Contactmusic.com reports. A single mother of two children, Winslet is now stepping...
01:11 PM, Mar 25, 2011
New Delhi: The debate over the MMR vaccine possibly causing autism is over scientifically as the original study by Dr Andrew Wakefield was retracted by The Lancet and is now being called an elaborate fraud by the British Medical Journal, which says it's already done long-lasting damage to public health. The BMJ's investigation finds Dr Wakefield misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases...
11:11 AM, Jan 10, 2011
London: The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research. The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion the MMR shot was connected to...
11:33 AM, Jan 06, 2011
Closer is a film by Meghana Gulzar which deals with autism. The film chronicles the story of people who are autistic and their family members. ...
03:20 PM, Dec 06, 2010
New Delhi:<./b> There are many myths surrounding MMR vaccines and autism. Dr. Amit Verma gives advices on the myth. Scientifically the debate is over. The Lancet earlier in 2010 retracted a controversial article it had published back in 1998 that supposedly found a link between the MMR vaccine and children developing symptoms of autism. The study has been discredited and a panel found that the lead author of the study...
11:47 AM, Nov 12, 2010
Mumbai: Braving all the temptations, the twitterati and the Facebook addicts will come together Nov 1 and shut down all means of social networking to support the cause of autism, create awareness about the disorder and also raise funds for charity, an official said. Australia-based AEIOU Foundation first came up with the idea to provide early intervention therapy for children with autism in Australia. In India, the campaign called 'Communication...
05:53 PM, Oct 07, 2010
They found that those with autism had more of what are called - copy number variants. ...
01:20 PM, Jun 11, 2010
Babies born 1 or 2 weeks before their 40-week gestation due date are more likely to develop learning difficulties. ...
12:07 PM, Jun 09, 2010
With good societal support people with autism can hope to be part of mainstream society. ...
12:26 PM, Apr 02, 2010
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterised by impaired social interaction. ...
03:58 PM, Mar 03, 2010
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