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• Persistence Pays

  
  Austin Ben Connor — Authority: 124
  Two great bits to share today. The first is a comment I left on Jenn Gish’s blog regarding inspiring kids to read . Reluctant reader = Austin He’s reluctant because it’s so hard for him. Every night is a struggle to get him to read. He started a Wilson’s program this year at school and it’s done ...
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• New Standard for Autism Spectrum Disorders

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 584
  An Israeli researcher has defined a new, integrated interpretation of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The work will make it easier to understand both the commonalities and differences between ASD and other conditions. In an article published in the journal The Neuroscientist , Dr. Dorit Ben Shalom recommends a ...
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• A Uniform Method To Interpret Autism Spectrum Disorders Is Defined At BGU (redOrbit)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 160
  A researcher from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has defined a new, integrated interpretation of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), which makes it easier to understand both the commonalities and differences between ASD and other conditions.In an article published in the December 2009 issue of The Neuroscientist ...
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• What Happened?

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 124
  Because I’ve posted daily for almost two years, this two weeks leave of absence has brought questions.  In the past, I’ve either written and scheduled posts ahead of a break time or I’ve accessed the Internet while on a trip.  Because of my schedule, neither of these was possible.  However, I’m back with a ...
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• Obeying God no Matter What the Cost–a sermon for the mentally challenged community

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 124
  Joseph Obey God Matthew 7:14-27 Central Theme:  Obeying God may make you a trouble maker I love Jelly Bellies.  There is a method in how you are to eat Jelly Bellies. Every Jelly Belly cunosure knows the method.  But I have found that they are not my friend.  I need to stay away from them and not eat them.  ...
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• Top Medical Advances in 2009

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, Jan 2 (ANI): The largest-ever genetic study of autism spectrum disorders and a remarkable success for gene therapy in reversing inherited blindness have made it to the list of top scientific achievements in 2009, according to three US publications: Time magazine, Discover magazine and the journal ...
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• ASAN Board of Directors Excludes Autistic Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 482
  Approximately 75-80% of persons with Autistic Disorder also have Intellectual Disabilities or cognitive impairment. Yet ASAN, the "Autistic" Self Advocacy Network Board of Directors has no members who represent that large segment of the Autistic Disorder community. The ASAN site profiles its directors all of whom ...
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• Feeling Anothers Pain: Of Aspergers and Remorse

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Recently, when the subject of Aspergers and remose came up on another PT blog, the question was asked if the pain that those with Aspergers feel when they discover they have caused hurt in others is tied to a true appreciation of the pain felt by the other party, or rather tied to the feeling of embarrassment that we ...
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• Autism Reality On The Last Day of the Decade:The Autism Spectrum Concept Has Been Harmful, Part I

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 482
  On this last day of this decade, as we prepare for 2010, and all that the next decade will bring,  it has become apparent that a major autism development of the last decade has been the growth of the Autism Spectrum concept.  The growth of  the Autism Spectrum concept has caused considerable harm to the ...
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• CDC Autism News Update 2015: Diagnostic Definition Changes, Increased Awareness Behind Recent Autism Surge

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 482
  January 1, 2015 CDC Autism News Update In a New Years day  media briefing the CDC has explained that its latest autism prevalence data, released two days before Christmas this year, and  showing a sharp rise in ASD, short for Autism Social Difference,  diagnoses, from 1 in 75 in 2012 to the current estimate of  ...
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• Psychotherapy Brown Bag - DSM-V - A discussion of potential changes

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 449
  There has been a lot of secrecy surrounding the revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM) that were due to be published in May of 2012. But now the pub date has been pushed back to 2013, which allows for another year of discussion around some of the key changes, such as PTSD, autism, and eating ...
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• From the soap box on the topic of autism…

  
  The Sirens Chronicles — Authority: 134
  ***steps onto soap box*** Hi y’all! Longtime readers know that a bitch’s older brother is autistic. This one goes out to journalists who report on autism and to my fellow members of the autism spectrum community. My brother Bill is damn near 40. Lawd, have mercy. He’s profoundly autistic, aphasic and a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Autism "Is What It Is", More Silly Neurodiversity Nonsense from Kev

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 482
  Kevin Leitch is up to his usual nonsense.  This time, at Opposing Views,  he asks whether "autism is a disability" and he gives his helpful answer that "autism is what it is, like the colour brown or the shape of a circle.  My reply to Mr. Leitchs silly comment on OV, edited slightly, follows: "Kevin Leitch has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Autism On the Rise: 1 in 110 Children Diagnosed

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 584
  Results from a new study show autism and related development disorders affect nearly 1 percent of American 8-year olds. The study is a partnership hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 10 other U.S. research sites. ...
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• Going Home For Christmas: Goodbye To Kim Peek

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  While some may dislike the Oscar winning film, "Rain Man," it has always had a special place in my heart.  For me, watching it was a revelation - it gave me a name, for the first time, for what made me different.  When I read today that the man who inspired the movie, Kim Peek, passed away last Saturday , I was ...
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• Autism Speaks: Autism on the Rise

  
  Mom-Blog: Parenting, life, growth, and sanity — Authority: 118
  Watch Mark Roithmayr, president of Autism Speaks, discuss the rise of autism and why we need answers now. Scary: Watch more coverage of this new CDC report.
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• Autism Rate Jumps Almost 60 Percent In Four Years

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 163
  David Goodhue - AHN Reporter Washington, D.C., D.C., United States (AHN) - University of Alabama researchers say the rate of autism and related development disorders has skyrocketed in the past four years. The researchers, along with scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, say the rate could ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recent Autism News

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 162
  Image via WikipediaAccording to a new CDC study that looked at medical and educational records, in 2006, .91% of eight-year-olds in the US (or 1.45% of boys and .32% of girls) were on the autistic spectrum (which includes Asperger Syndrome and PDD-NOS), though if you’re going for the scare story the way most of the ...
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• Washington in 5 minutes

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 164
  AUTISM New estimate out on autism rates ATLANTA | Health officials now estimate that one of every 110 children has autism. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new estimate Friday. Its a small change from the 1-of-100 estimate that CDC officials made in October. CDC officials said that estimate ...
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• Autism Jumps 57% in Just 4 Years

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Autism spectrum disorders increased by 57% in just four years, the CDC today reported. One in 110 U.S. kids suffers a form of autism.
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