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Here you will find follow up information from our autism seminar on mental health and autism.

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Autistic children have an increased likelihood of anxiety, but more research is needed on the characteristics that predict various types of anxiety in this population. 

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Reading Disability is often characterized by difficulties in the phonology of the language. While the molecular mechanisms underlying it are largely undetermined, loci are being revealed by genome-wide association studies.

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Andrew Videos Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew PhD Deputy Director (Research); Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at The Kids

Communicating with and Understanding your Baby

Communicating with and Understanding your Baby

Video technology is helping researchers learn more about the earliest features of autism, and in turn is helping families gain access to better interventions.

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We investigated the relationship between autistic-like traits in early childhood and age at menarche in typically developing girls.

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders which are more common in males. The 'prenatal sex steroid' hypothesis links excessive sex-steroid exposure during foetal life with the behavioural differences observed in ASD. However, the reason why sex steroid exposure may be excessive remains unclear. Epidemiological studies have identified several environmental risk factors associated with ASD, including developmental vitamin D (DVD) deficiency.

Autism researchers at The Kids have led the most comprehensive review of the evidence for autism intervention ever compiled