A study recently released by the University of Washington Autism Center reveals that mothers of children with autism tend to have a higher level of stress than mothers of children with only developmental delays.

In the new Giant Steps school in Illinois, the most minute details were scrutinized, even down to the volume of the automatic flushing toilets. The school will take some pressure off of area schools that are ill equipped to handle students that are on the autism spectrum.

In what is sure to make major headlines across every major news publication today is the rising numbers of children affected by autism. They have again increased and affect nearly 1 in every 100 children.

Can toxins such as PCBs and PBDEs be the key to autism? Can these environmental toxins which are used in day to day products (such as fire retardants) be passed through breast milk from mother to child? Some experts think so.

A combination of proteins in milk can cause a chain of negative reactions in the brain and body in some people. Among them are Autism, Schizophrenia and Heart Disease.

Pharmaceutical makers of the Swine Flu vaccine and government officials will be protected from lawsuits stemming from what may be a mandatory vaccination later this year.

Cammie McGovern ever so eloquently pens some great thoughts on autism, the ups and downs that go along with it, and life.

Could vaccines really be the problem after all? Some groups remain strong in this belief. The SPCI or Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute note that years ago vaccine makers switch vaccines from containing animal cells to aborted human fetal cells. It is there belief that this switch lines up nicely with the spike in autism diagnoses in the US and UK.

Scientists have observed that lab mice having inherited an intentional chromosomal duplication from their fathers more often displayed behaviors and traits that are associated with autism.