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Bedtime routines and sleep strategies help autistic kids sleep, study reveals
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Bedtime routines and sleep strategies help autistic kids sleep, study reveals

by Monash University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sleep strategies and simple bedtime routines can improve sleep in autistic children, reducing anxiety and enhancing family well-being, a new study reveals. The largest study of its kind into sleep problems in children on the autism spectrum, led by Monash University’s Professor Nicole Rinehart, found clinician-led behavioral interventions helped kids get...

Gut bacteria don’t cause autism. Autistic kids’ microbiome differences are due to picky eating
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Gut bacteria don’t cause autism. Autistic kids’ microbiome differences are due to picky eating

by Chloe Yap, Andrew Whitehouse, Jake Gratten,  The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock There has been much speculation that the community of bacteria living in the gut—known as the microbiome—may be different among people on the autism spectrum than the wider population. This has led some researchers and clinicians to speculate that gut bacteria could cause autism. But...