behavioral interventions

3 min read 2022-04-06 18:00:00

Null and Noteworthy: An ineffective therapy and an effective biomarker

A March Nature paper created a stir for suggesting that many neuroimaging studies are too small to reliably link brain structure and function to

4 min read 2022-03-15 18:00:00

Jiedi Lei kicked off her training in clinical psychology at King’s College London in the United Kingdom in October 2020, seven months into the

4 min read 2022-02-15 19:00:11

Last month, Spectrum hosted a webinar with autism researchers Tony Charman and Catherine Lord, who co-chaired the Lancet Commission’s set of

5 min read 2021-12-07 06:30:00

The term ‘profound autism’ should be used to describe autistic people who require round-the-clock, lifelong care, a team of autism researchers,

3 min read 2021-12-02 19:00:00

Children who are diagnosed with autism before 2 and a half years of age show greater gains in their social skills, on average, than children who are

4 min read 2021-12-02 07:00:00

Last month, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) met for the second time this year. Part of their discussion touched on how to make

1 min read 2021-11-24 19:00:15

Working as a speech-language pathologist back in the early 2000s, Andrew Whitehouse saw one family after another struggling to get good care for

1 min read 2021-11-16 19:00:00

Autistic children tend to rate cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as less effective at treating their anxiety than their parents and clinicians do,

5 min read 2021-10-19 03:41:41

Guest Post from Shea Fallick and Anoosha Kumar at PadSplit When you live by yourself, there’s only one person to do the chores. You are taking out

1 min read 2021-07-22 18:00:00

The Excavating the Biosocial series has so far focused on birth cohorts as ethnographic object (Gibbon and Pentecost 2020). In this post, I explore

4 min read 2021-03-03 19:00:00

Black people with autism have historically been underrepresented in research, a problem compounded by the fact that there are relatively few Black

5 min read 2020-12-08 19:00:23

Autism is typically thought of as a collection of traits: restricted interests, repetitive behaviors and difficulty with social communication. But by

3 min read 2020-10-27 18:00:00

Adjusting to the many changes that accompany puberty — physical, cognitive, hormonal and social — can be challenging for anyone. But it can be

3 min read 2020-08-24 18:00:00

Delays in autism diagnosis may contribute to the high rate of intellectual disability among Black autistic children in the United States, according

6 min read 2020-08-04 18:00:00

Under normal circumstances, Matthew Lerner’s day is full of meetings with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, clinicians and research