Parental Trust

Sometimes, the best way to learn about children with autism is to take a careful look at their parents.It turns out that many parents, even if they aren't diagnosed with autism, show some mild traits of the disorder. Ongoing research on this group — labeled with the 'broad autism phenotype', or BAP — suggests that the genetic underpinnings that lead to language or social problems can manifest in very different ways.On Monday morning at the Keystone symposium on autism, in Snowbird, Utah, Joe Piven discussed one such study he published last year.Read more at...SFARI, April 2010.