Data Reporter
Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky analyzes data and writes data-driven news stories for Spectrum.
Prior to joining the Spectrum team, she covered health, science and general news for the Daily Beast, NBC News MACH, Gothamist and other publications. She has an M.A. from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where she studied data journalism and health and science reporting.
So-called ‘baby sibs’ watch adults’ faces just as much as children without autistic siblings do, but they don’t understand spoken language as well.
More autistic women and girls report daily pain than do men and boys with the condition.
See autism research results distilled into simple visualizations, along with eye-opening statistics and datasets.
Applied behavior analysis is the most widely used therapy for autistic children in the United States, but some regions lack the staff needed to provide it.
About 1.8 percent of schoolchildren in England are autistic, and the prevalence is highest among Black children, at about 2.1 percent.
Infantile amnesia is not simply a story about forgetting the past. It is an opportunity to understand how memory itself is built.
Infantile amnesia is not simply a story about forgetting the past. It is an opportunity to understand how memory itself is built.
Researchers have dueled for years over how the magnetic sense works. New data from monarch butterflies could finally help settle the debate.
Researchers have dueled for years over how the magnetic sense works. New data from monarch butterflies could finally help settle the debate.
Negative reactions to sensations track with certain neurodevelopmental traits in more than 15,000 children—pointing to shared neurobiological roots.
Negative reactions to sensations track with certain neurodevelopmental traits in more than 15,000 children—pointing to shared neurobiological roots.