Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... designs these people do," says Lainy LeBow-Sachs, executive vice president of external affairs at Kennedy Krieger. "Even if you don't buy one - which we, of course, want you to do - it's fun to just look at them."Last year, 36,000 people visited the festival. In the 20 years Kennedy Krieger has been organizing the annual event, more than $16 million has been raised."We...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Autistic children are more likely to have handwriting problems than those without autism, according to a new study. The study, conducted by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, compared handwriting samples, motor skills, and visuospatial abilities of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to typically developing children. The researchers found that overall, the handwriting...
Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Autistic Children More Prone to Handwriting DifficultiesCategory: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 12:05:56 PM Font Size A recent study has it that handwriting difficulties are more prominent in autistic children than in their non-autistic peers. The study, conducted by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, compared handwriting samples, motor skills, and visuospatial abilities of...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Kennedy Krieger researchers suggest improvements are possible by targeting letter formation, fine motor control trainingHandwriting skills are crucial for success in school, communication, and building children's self-esteem. The first study to examine handwriting quality in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has uncovered a relationship between fine motor control and poor...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study, conducted by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, compared handwriting samples, motor skills, and visuospatial abilities of children with ASD to typically developing children. The researchers found that overall, the handwriting of children with ASD was worse than typically developing children. Specifically,...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study, conducted by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, compared handwriting samples, motor skills, and visuospatial abilities of children with ASD to typically developing children. The researchers found that overall, the handwriting of children with ASD was worse than typically developing children. Specifically,...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The study, conducted by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, compared handwriting samples, motor skills, and visuospatial abilities of children with ASD to typically developing children. The researchers found that overall, the handwriting of children with ASD was worse than typically developing children. Specifically, children with ASD had trouble with forming letters, however...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... many fellowships, including those of Rotary International, Heinz, WHO, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore and Visiting Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London.Membership Dr. Aman Sharma (Internal Medicine), Dr. Rakesh Kapoor (Radiotherapy), Dr.Vikas Gautam (Medical Microbiology) and Dr. Sumeeta Khurana (Parasitology) have...
War On You (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... after vaccination, the patient was diagnosed by Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a leading neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Children’s Hospital Neurology Clinic, with “regressive encephalopathy (brain disease) with features consistent with autistic spectrum disorder, following normal development.” The girl also met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) official...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... Dr. Daniel Becker, who cares for Mason-Hale at the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger, said is common in patients with injuries such as his. With all of that, Mason-Hale worked out less and less, and the usually upbeat teenager started feeling down."Every day was boring," he said. "I needed something to do. Distractions. TV. Computer. Definitely video games....
Same Difference (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... for the past several decades – that autism has a large genetic component,” Dr. Paul Law, of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, told Reuters Health in an email. “That observation was made through twin studies.” This new study confirms those findings using a much larger sample of twins, according to Law. The data come from an online registry called the Interactive Autism Network,...
