Being a future pediatric occupational therapist, I try my best to stay up to date on research with autism.  I am not someone who believes vaccines trigger autism and have read more than enough research to back me up on that.  I do, however, understand that when a child is diagnosed with a condition such as autism, a parent desperately wants to know and understand why this happened, I would feel the same exact way.  Without standing on my soap box for too long, I just wanted to post these articles for anyone who cares to look. 

This first one is a study I was told about by a friend who is in public health and is an article which disproves a link between autism and vaccinations in a very concrete, black and white way.

 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/california-stud/

This one was also given to me by another friend in public health (my roommate).  This article is my favorite because I already know vaccines don’t cause autism…who doesn’t know about the numerous studies that have been done.  But instead, this article discusses something even better- a possible cause! We can only do so much with “what doesn’t cause autism”.  But getting closer to what does means knowing where to go with medical treatment and therapy (where I come in).  I pray this leads to more advances and understanding.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/04/autism.brain.amygdala/index.html?iref=newssearch