December 20, 2024
Schiff Provides Perspective on Quality of Care for Autistic People
Physicians need more training to improve care for autism patients, UNC School of Medicine OBGYN Dr. Lauren Schiff writes in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Tag: autism
October 23, 2024
Let Sleeping Babies Lie: Scientists Highlight Negative Impacts of Sleep Disruption on Early Brain Development
The lab of Graham Diering, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology and physiology at the UNC School of Medicine, shows how sleep loss during early life impacts key aspects of brain development and how it can increase one’s risk for developing autism spectrum disorder.
June 25, 2024
New Study Suggests Higher Amounts of Intervention May Not Be More Helpful for Children on the Autism Spectrum
After a thorough systematic analysis, Micheal Sandbank, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine and other researchers across the United States found that evidence was lacking that higher intensity interventions provided increased benefits for young autistic children.
December 19, 2023
Enlarged Spaces in Infant Brains Linked to Higher Risk of Autism, Sleep Problems
Dea Garic, PhD, and Mark Shen, PhD, both in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, have found that enlarged perivascular spaces in the brains of babies, caused by an accumulation of excess cerebrospinal fluid, have a 2.2 times greater chance of developing autism later in life.
November 20, 2023
Researchers Reveal Low-Quality Studies of Autism Early Interventions Dominate the Field
A new meta-analysis led by Micheal Sandbank, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the UNC School of Medicine, found that the field of autism needs more high-quality randomized studies of early interventions to help clinicians understand how to better support children diagnosed with the condition.
October 14, 2020
TEACCH Autism Program Virtual Training: The Fundamentals of Structured TEACCHing in a Therapeutic Setting
This virtual training is set up as five, two-hour sessions that will provide participants with an overview of the learning styles of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Structured TEACCHing. Participants will learn strategies to engage school-aged clients in telehealth therapy services as well as antecedent-based behavior management strategies using Structured TEACCHing principles.