How Robots Could Help Autistic Children Improve Their Social Skills
Social robots have shown promise as a way to teach young children with communication differences to better handle social situations.
Social robots have shown promise as a way to teach young children with communication differences to better handle social situations.
Seriously, there’s no reason to keep your dogs unvaccinated over fears of “canine autism.”
The term “Asperger’s syndrome” will never be heard the same way again.
"We need to better understand how to improve vaccination levels in children with autism spectrum disorder."
Researchers have found that about 10 per cent of differences in empathy are linked to genetics.
It might also help us better understand why autism occurs in the first place.
"Trying to make an autistic character that's not just being socially awkward or getting angry is hard."
Seem to have similar genetic activity as humans on the autism spectrum.
Despite all the headway that science has made in understanding autism in recent years, knowing which children will one day develop autism is still almost impossible to predict.
An epidemic. A vaccine-induced scourge. A curse. Or: The reason Steve Jobs was so focused. The thing Bill Gates had that helped him get rich? Autism is a very misunderstood condition.
An interesting study about the ‘autism epidemic’ of recent years used data from children born between 1993 and 2002 to compare time trends in the rates of the autism and registered clinical diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder.
The internet giant's online human-genome database is proving a boon to doctors hunting answers to questions on how diseases come about.
For most of us virtual assistants are a minor help at best, but for one autistic boy Siri is his best friend.
