The Lancet Neurology - Prediction of autism in infants: Progress and challenges
Encouraging evidence exists that prediction of later autism in infants is possible.
Duke Bass Connections Awards Center for Autism ABC Thrive Funding to Address Barriers to Services
With this follow-on grant, center investigators plan to integrate digital autism caregiver coaching into the digital autism screening and outcome monitoring app. The app will provide information about best practices for early intervention and allow caregivers to track the child’s developmental progress. The team will then assess the usability and impact of the app on child social engagement and early language abilities through a pilot mixed-methods study with diverse caregiver-child pairs.
Duke Researchers Deploy AI on Phones to Capture Autism Traits
Raleigh News & Observer spotlights our new Autism Center of Excellence research in "Can artificial intelligence detect autism doctors miss? Duke study wants to find out."
Duke Experts Share Insights on How Pandemic Amplified Mental Health Crisis Facing Teens
The pandemic has only amplified an already alarming mental health crisis among the nation’s young people, but there are ways for parents and communities to help, explained Duke Autism Clinic providers in a Duke Health media briefing this summer. The behavioral health experts discussed the mental health crisis among children and teens, which the American Academy of Pediatrics has declared a “national emergency.”
JAMA Pediatrics Viewpoint: At a Crossroads—Reconsidering the Goals of Autism Early Behavioral Intervention From a Neurodiversity Perspective
The neurodiversity perspective is challenging autism researchers and interventionists to reconsider what should be the goals of early intervention, and specifically, whether the goal of intervention should be preventing, or promoting the loss of, an autism diagnosis.
