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Autism Speaks urges adapted hospital policies to allow support providers for autistic and disabled people… guardians or support providers.  Autism Speaks applauds the 14 states * that have issued direct guidance to hospitals to grant exceptions to visitor restrictions for people with disabilities, allowing them a guardian or support person at their …

Can exercise improve behavior? Help encouraging a child who has autism… of research and family service projects related to the benefits of exercise. Explore  more studies using this website’s Grant Search . Also see our Family Services portal to “ Health and Fitness .” Got more questions?  Send them to …

Parents See Son’s Autism Ease during Fever; ‘Anyone Studying This?'… study on this “fever effect,” in the journal Pediatrics. The research was made possible, in part, by a 2001 research grant from an organization that eventually merged with others to form Autism Speaks in 2005. Led by graduate student Laura …

ATN@Work: Improving emergency care for children with autism… how to communicate with patients who have autism. Autism Speaks’ helped fund the program with  a Family Services community grant . … ATN@Work: Improving emergency care for children with autism …

ATN@Work: Personalizing hospital care for children with autism… around a document that pediatricians ask parents fill out  prior  to any hospitalization. The study was made possible by a grant from the Autism Speaks ATN in its role as the federally funded  Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical …

New study on health risks of risperidone: Your questions answered… team focus on risperidone? Dr. Scahill:  We have a long history of studying risperidone. We began in the late 1990s with a grant from the National Institute of Health. Risperidone was relatively new at the time. We were interested in the drug …