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The Baby Doll Dilemma: Is It About the Doll or About Annoying His Sister?

9/22/11 3:59pm by aym
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we all cooed over kiddette and her purple goo-gooing doll, and how funny it was that she knew just what to do with the doll, and isn't it strange how she took right to dolls and stuffed animals while her big brother went right for trucks and cars and airplanes and Legos. And then kiddo noticed the doll. Promptly he became obsessed with it.  Read more >

New Study Shows Higher Autism Rates for Autism Siblings

8/17/11 8:00am by Shannon Des Roc...
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How likely is a child with autism to have an autistic sibling? The medical journal Pediatrics recently published results from the UC Davis MIND Institute's Infant Sibling Study, showing that nearly 20 percent of 664 infant siblings of children with autism -- infants who were tracked and evaluated from age six to thirty-six months -- developed an autism spectrum disorder. This rate is much higher than previous estimates of three to ten percent.  Read more >