Program will estimate costs needed for Common Start legislation (H. 605 / P. 362) A UMass Boston-based interdisciplinary team of researchers has launched a new research project that will build a cost simulator to inform policy recommendations around universal child care. The simulator will model the amount of funding required by the Common Start legislation […]
Zachary J Williams MD/PhD college studentVanderbilt University When Zachary Williams joined the Autistic Researchers Committee of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), he that knew one of the group’s priorities would be to promote participatory research — an approach in which scientists work with autistic people and other members of the autism community to […]
“So, have you found any autism in Africa?” the wealthy philanthropist asked, peering over his wine glass. It was 2012, and Petrus de Vries had just returned to South Africa after 20 years abroad. The University of Cape Town, where he had been hired to set up an autism research center, was hosting a cocktail […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Welcome back to By the Numbers, Spectrum’s data-centric take on autism research. Let us know what you think of the newsletter at niko@spectrumnews.org, and thanks for reading. Total funding for autism research in the United States nearly doubled between 2008 and 2018, according to data from the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio As regular readers know, this newsletter takes pains to highlight autism research tweets — but do tweets really help papers take flight? It’s tough to quantify the impact, beyond simple tallies of retweets and likes. A new paper this week attempts the calculation, linking social-media shares and news coverage with actual […]
Chennai: In a bid to address the issues in school education, the Tamil Nadu government has undertaken core research activities, including the impact of social media and mobile apps on learning habits among students. Accordingly, the Tamil Nadu State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), a wing of the School Education Department, has been […]
Early on in her first postdoctoral position, Hollis Cline demonstrated her characteristic flair for creative problem-solving. Cline, who calls herself Holly, and her advisor, neuroscientist Martha Constantine-Paton, wanted to study the brain’s “topographic maps” — internal representations of sensory input from the outside world. These maps are thought to shape a person’s ability to process […]
Illustration by Laurenne Boglio Ready for your weekly roundup of autism research tweets? First in this issue of Spectrum’s Community Newsletter, the January 15 cover of The Lancet included a quote from the journal’s recent commission on the future of autism care and clinical research. On this week’s cover, a quote from The Lancet Commission […]
convergence Because autism is such a diverse condition, researchers have long sought common ground – including common mechanistic pathways to several forms of it. This year, scientists plotted several new points of convergence on this map, several of which share functions in common between genes associated with autism: some genes play a role in early […]
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Illustration by Laurène Boglio Hello and welcome to the community newsletter! I am your host, Chelsey B. Coombs, the engagement editor of Spectrum. We start this week with a paper on the strengths of autistic researchers by Aimee Grant, Senior Research Officer in Public Health at Swansea University, and Helen Kara, Honorary Senior Research Fellow […]
Both parents and non-parents reported high levels of exercise and play with their pets. (Pexels photo) Have you noticed lately that more cats are riding in strollers? Or bumper stickers that say “I love my Granddogs”? You don’t make it up. More and more people are investing a lot of time, money and attention in […]
