Category Archives: 2010

Barbara Avila

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Barbara

Barbara Avila is a family Autism consultant currently serving families in Oregon, Washington and Australia. She has been in the field of autism since the early 1990’s, starting as an aide, behavior therapist, group home parent, teacher and autism consultant … Continue reading →

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Simons Simplex Collection Project

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Dan Yedinak

Who: The University of Washington Autism Center (UWAC) Purpose: The Simons Simplex Collection (SSC) project is a new initiative to search for the causes of autism. Earlier research efforts studied multiplex families, or families with more than one child with autism. The current … Continue reading →

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Study of the use of Vitamin D to prevent Autism in newborn siblings.

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Dan Yedinak

Purpose: To study the use of Vitamin D as a method of intervention to prevent the recurrence of autism in newborn siblings in families with at least one child with autism. Description of study: Pregnant mothers will be started on daily Vitamin D3. The mother will have the … Continue reading →

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