After reading about a new ADHD study in the news I feel a little inattention and spontaneous outbursts coming on. Try to focus now because it will get confusing. The mainstream media couldn’t figure out whether a new study finding rising ADHD diagnoses reflected a real increase in the condition …
Kids still as creative as ever? (Credit: © BeTa-Artworks / Fotolia) Research you (might) need to know. Smoke from open-fire cooking associated with children’s lower cognitive skills. Cooking over an indoor fire in the developing world, not the smoker you occasionally fire up in your backyard. Perhaps it was sharing food over an enclosed …
10 Common Chemicals Linked to Autism and ADHD – Babble, April 26 With autism now affecting 1 out of every 88 American children, researchers have been scrambling to understand how, in just 10 years, these numbers have jumped a staggering 78 percent, and why ADHD now affects 14 percent of children …
1 in 88 US children have autism? Yes according to a new study by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. That’s an increase from 1 in 110 in 2007 and hold on to your calculators, a whopping increase from the early 2000/2002 rate of 1 in 150 (check out the graphics). In …
Although it’s been obvious to anyone who’s spent time in the statistic’s department or IT lab, there’s an upside to having autism. We typically think of an autism diagnosis as indicative of deficits, but it can also be seen as a different way of perceiving the world and one with benefits like the ability to …