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Surprisingly High Number of Adults With Severe Learning Disabilities Also Have Autism, UK Research Shows
January 31, 2012 New UK research on autism in adults has shown that adults with a more severe learning disability have a greater likelihood of having autism. This group, mostly living in private households, was ... > full story -
Learning-Based Tourism an Opportunity for Industry Expansion
January 30, 2012 New research suggests that major growth in the travel, leisure and tourism industry in the coming century may be possible as more people begin to define recreation as a learning and educational ... > full story -
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Mom's Love Good for Child's Brain
January 30, 2012 School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child ... > full story -
Lifelong Payoff for Attentive Kindergarten Kids
January 29, 2012 Attentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of "work-oriented" skills in school children, according to a new ... > full story -
Twilight Learning: Looking Back and Forward to the Possibilities of Subliminal Messages
January 27, 2012 The concept of the subliminal message is now familiar. A subconscious suggestion can help a person bring about positive change, such as smoking cessation, or otherwise influence one’s actions. ... > full story -
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What Are Friends For? Negating Negativity
January 26, 2012 "Stand by me" is a common refrain when it comes to friendship but new research demonstrates that the concept goes beyond pop music: keeping friends close has real physiological and psychological ... > full story -
High-School High Achievers Who Flounder in University: Some Students May Have Undetected Reading Comprehension Difficulties
January 25, 2012 Everyone knows a high-school high achiever who has floundered in university. Now researchers may have an explanation for the problem. They say it is likely that some of these students may have ... > full story -
Adolescents With Autism Spend Free Time Using Solitary, Screen-Based Media
January 25, 2012 Children with autism spectrum disorders tend to be fascinated by screen-based technology. A new study found that adolescents with autism (64.2 percent) spend most of their free time using solitary, ... > full storyMore: -
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Adolescents from Unstable Families Lose Ground in Rigorous High Schools
January 25, 2012 Research continues to support a connection between instability in the home and school performance in adolescents, but a new study takes the research a step further by exploring how the relationship ... > full story -
Learning to 'Talk Things Through in Your Head' May Help People With Autism
January 24, 2012 Teaching children with autism to "talk things through in their head" may help them to solve complex day-to-day tasks, which could increase the chances of independent, flexible living later in life, ... > full story
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