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• Hospital Parking Fees: An Issue Of Health Inequity

  
  Notes From The Frugal Trenches - A Downshifting Journey — Authority: 128
  As is well-documented in this space , I adopted two children with special needs. Both are followed by 2+ departments at local hospitals and adding in physiotherapy and occupational therapy, I would say that on average, we have five appointments a month year round. This does not include speech therapy which at some ...
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• High Tech Jobs Suit People with Autism

  
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  For many parents of children with autism, what they will do when they finish their education is a big worry.  Thankfully some companies are realizing the value people with autism can bring to the workplace. One Fortune 500 company has hired people with intellectual disabilities and found them to be assets to their ...
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• DYSLEXIA: 21 YEAR OLD PILOT FLIES HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD

  
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  James Anthony Tan has dyslexia. Despite this, the 21 year was able to get his pilots licenses from both the UK and Australia.  He has just completed a solo flight halfway around the world. Tan hopes to become the youngest solo pilot who has flown around the world in a single engine plane. Tan acknowledged that ...
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• All In A Week

  
  Notes From The Frugal Trenches - A Downshifting Journey — Authority: 128
  The week has been beautiful, not without its challenges, but beautiful nonetheless. We had a brief hospital visit where my son was diagnosed with tourette’s syndrome . And while I do occasionally worry about the growing number of special needs , there wasn’t a day this week that wasn’t good. The moments we ...
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• Play Therapy May Help ADHD

  
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  The Ultimate Guide to Making Friends is a program that is being testing on children with ADHD. The program aims to help children who have ADHD with social and communication skills and is being developed by two pediatric occupational therapists from the University of Sydney. The study to date has found the ...
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• The Importance of Being An Advocate for Your Child

  
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  A recent seminar in Oregon discussed the importance of separating fact from fiction when dealing with people with autism. During this seminar, parents of children with autism spoke of the issues they faced getting a diagnosis and accessing appropriate treatment. At this seminar, one mother told her story. ...
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• Autism: Children With Autism See Movement Twice As Quickly As Their Peers

  
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  New research indicates that children with autism have a heightened perception of motion in comparison to their peers.  " Such heightened sensory perception in autism may help explain why some people with the disorder are painfully sensitive to noise and bright lights. It also may be linked to some of the complex ...
  2 weeks ago

• DYSLEXIA: Girls and Boys Brain Anatomy is Different

  
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  Recent research showed that there were differences in the genetics of boys and girls with autism. (See  Gender Differences in Autism ). Now research suggests the same may apply to people with dyslexia. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center examined MRIs of the brains of males and females ...
  2 weeks ago

• Attachment, a Surprising Love Story

  
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  I called my friend, Javaughn in a panic on my way home from work (I started a part-time job as a teacher recently).  ”I have a post due for APtly Said tomorrow and I have not written anything. What should I write about?” Then she began talking about her own experience with co-sleeping and how it has made a ...
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• Medical Advances Mean Life With Down Syndrome Is Now Full of Possibilities

  
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  When many people hear the words down syndrome they picture a significantly disabled person with a poor quality of life. Advances in medicine mean that stereotype no longer applies. Advocates for people with down syndrome are trying to educate the public on the their abilities "T he lives of the 250,000 ...
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• Organize Your Child With Special Needs - Part One Home Organization

  
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  Organization poses a huge problem for many children with special needs. Poor organizational skills can have a detrimental effect on childrens performance at school as well as causing distress in their home lives. Poor organizational skills often result from deficits in executive function. Executive ...
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• Autism: Girls May Need Different Treatment Than Boys

  
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  Most people are aware that autism is more prominent in boys than girls. New research presented at the International Society for Autism Research  conference suggests that: girls may not be diagnosed with autism as frequently as boys because their symptoms may be different treatment for girls with autism may ...
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• Awesome Adaptive Bike Giveaway for Children with Special Needs

  
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  Katrina Moody Adaptive Bikes for a Child with Special Needs – How Awesome is That? There are few things more amazing than the freedom of riding your own bike for the first time, but for many children with special needs, that won’t easily happen without an adaptive bike.  The  Great Bike Giveaway will help ...
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• Autism: Speech Devices Can Help Children with Autism Communicate

  
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  Research presented at the International Conference for Autism Research found that by using speech devices in conjunction with play therapy children with autism increased their language and communication.  More on this study can be found here. More research results presented at this conference can be found ...
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• Autism Research: More Studies Link Autism To Enviroment

  
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  Mothers to be who are exposed to certain environmental factors may increase their risk of having children with autism.  A study, presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Autism Research, found that pregnant women exposed to high levels of certain air pollutants had a 30 to 50% ...
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• Nearly Half of Kids With Autism Will Run Away At Least Once

  
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  A study by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that almost half of all children with autism will run away at least once before they reach age 17.  What is even scarier about this statistic is that more children with autism who run away will die in comparison to other runaways. Some of the characteristics of ...
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• National Institute for Mental Health Says Patients Deserve Better than DSM 5

  
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  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM has been treated as the "bible" for the diagnosis and classification of mental illnesses by many practitioners. As most people are aware, a revised version, the DSM 5, is due to be published later this month by the American Psychiatric Association. ...
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• Autism: Why Working on Social Skills is Critical.

  
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  Parents of children with autism know that interacting in social situations and forming friendships can be especially challenging for anyone with Autism. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) includes deficits in social and communication skills as part of the diagnostic criteria for Autism in ...
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• Children with Special Needs - How to Find a Babysitter

  
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  Finding a competent and reliable babysitter is very difficult if you have a child with special needs. Close friends and family members will probably help you out but there are occasions when you will need someone else.  Before you start your search for a babysitter, make a list of what you want the babysitter to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arbaclofen Leads to Some Improvement in Autism Symptoms

  
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  Researchers at Vanderbilt University studied the effects of arbaclofen versus a placebo in children with autism. Unlike a prior study, the children on arbaclofen did not show an improvement in social skills. The children did however show an overall improvement in the severity of their symptoms.  Further study on the ...
  3 weeks ago

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