IQ – ASF Weekly Science Podcasts

Episodes

1. 9

   Bilingualism: is it best?

   This week’s podcast explores the question about whether or not it is beneficial or just confusing to teach your child with autism multiple languages, or suppress the use of more than one language at home. Turns out, being bilingual helps with executive functioning (or those with preserved…

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   Oct 30, 2022

   14 min
2. 8

   Autism diagnosed in school age, and does early intervention make a difference?

   Thanks to a Facebook follower, this week’s podcast highlights a new systematic review on Early Intense Behavioral Intervention. This systematic review, however, is not different from one published 5 years ago, because the nature of early interventions have changed so much that they no longer fit...

   Jul 16, 2018

   9 min
3. 7

   If you want to know about people with autism, ask them

   There are relatively few studies using self-report findings on standardized measures from people with autism. Part of the reason for this is because there aren’t that many of these instruments to begin with. Scientists are working on that. But this week, a group from the UK took the existing data...

   Jul 9, 2018
4. 6

   Just to be clear: people with Aspergers are not Nazi’s

   This week, a disturbing report from Molecular Autism published by an Austrian historian with no affiliation with autism, linked Hans Asperger to a eugenics facility in Germany and labeled him a Nazi sympathizer. This was the first investigative report of the link using primary documents. He had...

   Apr 22, 2018

   11 min
5. 5

   Parents are people too

   Sometimes parents get a bad rap for not having autism themselves, or not being in touch with the challenges of autistic adults. This week’s ASF Podcast highlights two new studies on the role parents play in science, research and understanding racial disparities. A group in the United Kingdom...

   Nov 20, 2017

   11 min