Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

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Lumping or splitting ASD with intellectual disability? What’s the difference?

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

11/01/20 • 16 min

Separating out those with ASD with an intellectual disability from those with ASD without an intellectual disability can more precisely identify factors that influence probability of having a child with ASD as well as factors which can prevent or preclude services. For example, in those without an intellectual disability, there seems to be stronger heritable …

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Scientists: they are just like us. They are in a pandemic crisis too

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

04/05/21 • 44 min

Scientists who help families affected by ASD may look like they have it all together, but the pandemic has been catastrophic not just on discoveries to help families, but to the people who conduct research, meet with families, and provide services. They have lives too, and those lives have interrupted their abilities to provide care …

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ABA studies in ASD are not perfect

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

02/22/21 • 18 min

ABA and ABA – inspired behavioral therapies like Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions are the most commonly used in autism. They have become more sophisticated in design, using control groups and implementing other ways to minimize bias. But when you put all of the data together around ABA-type interventions in a pile, are they effective? Do …

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How is ASD diagnosis happening right now?

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

03/22/21 • 16 min

Early on in the pandemic, clinicians struggled with how to turn in-person evaluations into Telehealth evaluations. One year later: what have they done? How have they modified? How do parents feel about these changes? Should they stay or should they go? This topic will be featured on our ASF Day of Learning on April 22nd …

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COVID-19 is especially deadly to the IDD community

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

03/14/21 • 12 min

In a study over over 64 MILLION people across the US, COVID-19 has been shown to be most deadly to those with an intellectual disability. This was once a theory, now it is a proven fact. Take action! Write your governor and demand that intellectual disability and neurodevelopment disorders be put on the priority list …

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Ribbit…Ribbit… frogs are the new mouse of ASD research

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

03/08/21 • 27 min

You’ve heard a lot about CRISPR technology to manipulate gene expression. But what have scientists actually learned? Well, the cells in which DNA is manipulated could come from different animal models, including frogs and mice. These model systems are used to track brain development, sex differences, and the downstream effects of convergence of genetic manipulations …

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Tell us what you want, what you really really want…

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

03/28/21 • 3 min

What topics have been on your mind that you would like to hear about on a podcast? Is it scientific? Theoretical? Abstract? concrete? Would you like to hear from an expert and which one? Do you not know but you want to hear more? Come at me: [email protected] and TELL me what topics are of …

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Better ways of subgrouping ASD?

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

02/01/21 • 19 min

On this week’s podcast, two new studies which explore the concept of subgroups of ASD are described. First, a “genetics-first” approach. Dr. Samuel Chawner at Cardiff University compares autism symptoms in those with copy number variants to those with no known genetic cause and asks: how similar to each other are they and can genetics …

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Let’s Get Some Physical Activity

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

01/11/21 • 8 min

Everyone needs some physical activity, but people on the spectrum typically get less activity than those not diagnosed with ASD. Why? There are multiple reasons, but as it turns out it can’t all be blamed on the obvious culprit of increased screen time or video game use. Those can be reasons why teenagers get less …

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The ASF Year End Review of Science

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

12/27/23 • 22 min

Just three days before 2024, ASF provides a summary of the the highlights of scientific discoveries and how they have translated into tools families can use. They include ways to speed up diagnosis and reduce waitlists, study of the brains in females and clinical recommendations for helping autistic females at birth, evidence of better practices ...

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Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report currently has 225 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Medicine, Podcasts, Social Sciences and Science.

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The episode title 'Lumping or splitting ASD with intellectual disability? What’s the difference?' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report is 20 minutes.

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Episodes of Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report are typically released every 7 days, 5 hours.

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The first episode of Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report was released on Jul 22, 2019.

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