Autism Speaks has announced the funding of five million dollars in new research. In this and my next few blog posts, I'll describe the research and why it's important. The five million dollars is allocated over sixteen different grants. Two of them are described here.

I'd like to begin by quoting part of the Autism Speaks release:

Novel directions in early detection of autism

Two studies to be funded are focused on developing new methods for very early detection of ASD. The first will...