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.

Eric Vanderwerken loves baseball. He serves at the scoreboard keeper of the minor league Fort Worth Cats. The Ft. Worth Star Telegram recently posted a great story about Eric and his love of all things baseball.

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.

As aunt to a nephew with autism, Jennifer Parker observed the struggles endured by her sibling's family. In an effort to be an advocate for mothers that were termed "Refrigerator Mothers" decades ago, Jennifer has been able to study the leading psychiatric journals dating back as far as 1944 to 1977 that in large part blamed a child's lack of development on emotionally detached mothers.