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Since May 2020

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The latest autism research news stories with ASF Chief Science Officer Alycia Halladay

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Recent Episodes

Updates from I-ACC, late prematurity and language development

Mar 22, 2026 14m

What is the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee and why did it meet? This week’s podcast discusses the need and the agenda of Thursday’s meeting. In addition, more research showing that…

The different flavors of early intervention

Dec 01, 2025 44m

You may have heard terms in early intervention like “NDBI” or “Early Start Denver Model” and wondered if there was a difference in efficacy behind all these flavors of toddler interventions. On this…

More about the environmental influences in autism

Sep 08, 2024 15m

New research points to a previously understudied but fascinating mechanism by which environmental factors may lead to autism: it’s called the “GABA/glutamate switch” which is a critical period in…

Now you know the reason for decades of eye tracking research

Sep 10, 2023 22m

Can biomarkers that measure things like visual social attention be a good proxy for an in person behavioral diagnosis? Why would this be important? This week’s podcast explores two new studies the…

A 2022 Day of Learning Quickie

Apr 03, 2022 27m

This year’s Day of Learning was a huge success, with topics ranging from biological sex differences to mobile technologies all the way to the importance and documented value of leisure activities in…

New ways to solve old problems

Mar 06, 2022 20m

This week’s podcast focuses on innovative methodologies to understand how to reach black families, understand why and when autistic people prefer not to look at faces and how interventions can…

Talk talk talk…..it may make a difference to your infant

Jul 11, 2021 12m

Children and infants who later go on to have an autism diagnosis show impairments in communication. Is there anything that parents can do? Yes! Talk. Talk in complicated sentences. Talk…

Parents describe the “best things” about their kids with ASD

Feb 08, 2021 16m

Parents may see challenges in their kids with ASD, but they also know what is great about them and the unique gifts they bring to the world. Now, researchers from Canada have inventoried and…

Which came first, ASD or sleep problems?

Dec 06, 2020 10m

People with autism have lots of problems, and sleep is one of them. This week’s podcast explores when these problems begin, which brain areas are involved, and how autism contributes to, or suffers…

Age of parents and ASD. It’s complicated.

May 11, 2020 11m

Questions have loomed around the finding of an increased risk of parents having a child with ASD if they are under 20 or over 35. Of course not every parent who is really young or older will have…