toddler – ASF Weekly Science Podcasts

Mar 17 2024 10 ep. 17 mins 1

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The Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Podcast is a summary of the latest research in autism spectrum disorders. This podcast will discuss new science, research discoveries, meetings and discussions, news reports, and other information important to those affected by autism especially families.

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Missed the Meeting on Language in Autism? Listen to this podcast

Mar 17 2024 21 mins

Last week in North Carolina, the Meeting on Language in Autism was held, with 3 days of amazing presentations and lots of productive discussions about how language and speech develops and how people with autism communicate. This podcast describes the origins of language development and how intervention during toddlerhood can promote lifelong language abilities. To learn more about

Now you know the reason for decades of eye tracking research

Sep 10 2023 22 mins

Can biomarkers that measure things like visual social attention be a good proxy for an in person behavioral diagnosis? Why would this be important? This week’s podcast explores two new studies the the Journal of the American Medical Association that show a simple device called EarliPoint can be used to shorten the wait times to receive a diagnostic evaluation. Currently auti

When it comes to intervention, earlier is better

Apr 09 2023 19 mins

This week, we talk to Whitney Guthrie from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who spent the last 6 years conducting the gold-standard randomized control trial that demonstrates intervention for social communication skills at 18 months shows greater effects than intervention starting at 27 months. If you wanted evidence that earlier is better, here it is! Interventions and s

One in 36 and what it predicts

Mar 26 2023 8 mins

The CDC released data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM) on Thursday. In the past 2 years, the prevalence of autism has increased about 20%. Why? Are there more new cases or is diagnostic practices improving? For 20 years there has been fewer Black and Hispanic kids diagnosed. Is that still the case? Listen to this week’s #ASFpodcast to

Everything you wanted to know, and more, about the revisions to the CDC developmental milestones

Apr 23 2022 41 mins

In February, the CDC worked with the American Academy of Pediatrics to update the developmental milestones that parents should use when referencing how their child is developing. These milestones describe what should be accomplished by times as young as 2 months and as old as 5 months. These are helpful to all parents who wonder “shouldn’t my child be walking by now

ASD in the “next generation” of siblings

Apr 19 2020 11 mins

Times have changed. Once, parents of a child with autism were concerned about autism in younger siblings. Now those parents are grandparents, and worried about autism in their children’s children. Siblings of autistic adults are considering having children of their own and wondering what they should be prepared for when they have kids of their own. This week, Natasha Marrus

The waterbed around your brain (and its role in sleep)

Oct 21 2018 15 mins

This week we have a very special guest: Dr. Mark Shen from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has been leading the field in understanding the role that the fluid around the brain in autism. This week he expands his research to show that this increase in extra – axial (around the brain) fluid is not limited to those with a family history of autism, and is seen bo

Quality vs. Quantity in an autism diagnosis

Oct 08 2018 10 mins

In the fight to ensure everyone with autism is detected and diagnosed as early as possible, community providers are sometimes pushed to the limit in what they can do. They have a huge caseload and there are long waitlists. So how accurate are autism diagnoses given by these providers with little time and little resources for training? As it turns out, they are just okay. Approximat

A tool to describe strengths of people with autism

Jul 01 2018 15 mins

Due to popular demand, this podcast is dedicated to the International Classification of Functioning, or ICF. This is a tool used to measure functioning in people with not just autism, but across individuals. As the expert guest, Soheil Mahdi, describes in this podcast, it isn’t about replacing a diagnosis of autism, but complementing the diagnosis with a description of ways t

Improving early detection of ASD by listening to parents

Jan 28 2018 11 mins

It’s well known that both parent report and observational measure are crucial to an autism diagnosis. But what about prior to a diagnosis, in the critical period of 12-18 months when symptoms may be seen but a diagnosis cannot yet be made? A research collaboration across Canada has been studying better detection and translating it to early intervention, and postdoc Lori Sacre