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Autism spectrum disorder in children born preterm: Role of exposure to perinatal inflammationThis review aims to summarise and evaluate the potential mechanisms and evidence for the role of prenatal infection on the central nervous system, and how it...
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Hospitalisation rates for children with intellectual disability or autism born in Western Australia 1983-1999: A population-based cohort studyID and/or ASD were found to be associated with an increased risk of hospitalisation compared with the remainder of the population.
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Autistic-like traits in childhood predict later age at menarche in girlsWe investigated the relationship between autistic-like traits in early childhood and age at menarche in typically developing girls.
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Are autistic traits in the general population stable across development?The current investigation measured AT in 360 males and 400 males from the general population close to two decades apart, using the Pervasive Developmental...
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Unpacking the complex nature of the autism epidemicThis paper discusses changes in diagnostic criteria, decreasing age at diagnosis, improved case ascertainment, diagnostic substitution, and social influences.
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Adult psychosocial outcomes of children with specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and autismEvidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised suggestions that developmental language disorder...

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Sibling’s likelihood of autism diagnosis impacted by age gap, study findsThe Curtin University research in collaboration with The Kids Research Institute Australia, published in Autism Research, investigated more than 925,000 births in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.

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World-first video trial to help babies at risk of autism thriveVideo technology is helping researchers learn more about the early communication style of infants with a family history of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability.

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National guideline provides uniform approach to autism diagnosisIn October 2018, the Autism CRC released A National Guideline for the Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Australia.

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Directing immune development to curb sky-rocketing diseaseOnce upon a time it was infectious diseases like polio, measles or tuberculosis that most worried parents. With these threats now largely under control, parents face a new challenge – sky-rocketing rates of non-infectious diseases such as asthma, allergies and autism.