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Researcher Paul Shattuck

Youth With Autism Face Barriers To Employment And Education After High School

Compared with youth with other disabilities, young adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) face a disproportionately difficult time navigating work and educational opportunities after high school, finds a new study by Paul Shattuck, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.  Included in this report is a video summary of […]

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Researcher Kim Anderson

Protective Factors Identified That Help Women Recover From Childhood Violence

Children who witness domestic violence are more likely to be in abusive intimate relationships and experience psychological problems such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adulthood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A University of Missouri researcher has found that certain protective factors foster resilience and increase the likelihood that the […]

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soldier holding his gun

Combat Veterans Face More Lifelong Socioeconomic Challenges

From the many images sent home from foreign battlefields over the last several decades, Americans have viewed the plight of their country’s combat-weary veterans as stark and often iconic scenes that seem somehow frozen in time. But recent research at Washington State University (WSU) suggests that, for many U.S. veterans, combat is a defining experience […]

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Amina Alio

Involvement By Father In Pregnancy Could Reduce Infant Mortality

Studies have shown fathers who are active in their children’s upbringing can significantly benefit their children’s early development, academic achievement and well being.  Now, a new study by University of South Florida researchers suggests that a father’s involvement before his child is born may play an important role in preventing death during the first year […]

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