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Archive On Saturday, May 4, Dr. Devin Houston will be featured on Danielle Lin's nation-wide syndicated radio program to discuss the effects of diet and digestive enzymes on behavior and symptoms of autism and ADHD. The radio show's website lists stations and times and how you can listen via the internet. Parent Karen DeFelice is also interviewed.
Scientific Article: Autoimmunity in autism Article: Diagnosing autism key to treatment. Article: Diagnosed with autism: What now? Article: Understanding autism: breaking out of the bubble. The growing number of children diagnosed as autistic is causing alarm among parents and doctors. In the first part of a series, Christine Doyle investigates whether the disorder is more prevalent - and explains what little we know about it. Article: Parents address challenge of autism. Article: Autism: A child stolen. Article: Outbursts in public challenging for parents. Article: China Has 400,000 to 500,000 Children Suffering from Autism. Repligen Corporation and several medical centers in the US are seeking children to participate in a FDA approved double-blinded, placebo controlled study of RG1068 (synthetic human secretin.) Article: The Pressured Parent: Navigating the Unsettling Terrain of the Autistic Child. Article: Vaccines blamed for autism. Parents believe mercury-containing preservative made children ill and push for legal remedies. Article: This is what living with Matt is like. Another Tragic Story; A woman threw her 7-year-old autistic son out of a third-story bedroom window, according to police, who are holding her on suspicion of attempted murder, child abuse and assault. Article: When The Punishment Doesn't Fit. Advocates Question School Suspension Policies. MMR and Acquired Autism (Autistic Enterocolitis) by David Thrower; April 2002.
Article: Routine overnight EEG monitoring not warranted in autistic children. Article: Everyone said he was 'normal' A Loudoun family faces the diagnosis of autism. Article: How do you keep two autistic boys out of mischief during the school holidays? With considerable difficulty. Puerto Rico Autism Conference: International Conference on Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder and Other Developmental Disorders. Karyn Seroussi's Today Show interview is available to listen to on the NBC website. Click on the link "Play Video." The video is 6 minutes long and you will need Windows Media Player. Article: Two eminent doctors have clashed over the safety of the MMR vaccine during a debate aimed at reassuring the public. Practitioner review: Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in 2- and 3-year-old children. Article: May Institute; after worst year ever, the May sets turnaround in motion Article: Missoula man finds his niche running errands for others Article: Giving a Voice to the Young; Signing Helps Children Learn Spoken Word. Article: People who are allergic to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, have probably inherited the disorder from their parents, Italian researchers report. Article: Eleven lawsuits claiming that mercury in dental amalgam caused autism in the plaintiffs' children were filed this week in Fulton County (Georgia) State Court. Study of Possible Link Between Measles Vaccine And Autism Funded. Article: Game of chance with fragile lives The treatment of autism is, unfortunately, far from an exact science. Article: Living with autism, Article: Special Needs, Special Approaches. State Strives to Aid Autistic. Success with the Options Program: Parenting; Our Little Girl Can Hug us Again. Article: Anger Over MMR Scare. Article: An autistic toddler, who spent the night barefoot and lightly-dressed wandering farmland west of Melbourne, was found after being lured to the sound of a tractor. Music is the key. Pioneer therapy program benefits patients, students. Seeing a Scrambled World Through Autistic Eyes. Article: `Sometimes it's like walking on egg shells, but you learn to live with it - and I love him dearly'
Karyn Seroussi, author of Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and PDD - A Mother's Story of Research and Recovery, will appear on the Today Show on Monday, April 15th, to discuss autism awareness, taking responsibility for one's children's health, and the dietary and biological treatments for autism. Article: They May be Right to be Wary; Doubts about the safety of the MMR inoculations have been raised again - this time by one of Britain's leading autism researchers, Prof Elizabeth Newson. ASA Announces their National Agenda for 2002. Article: Immune link to autism. Article: WallStCares.com Asks Every Publicly-Traded Company To Donate One Share To Fight Autism. Conference: Article:
Mother's cookbook finds autistic children's strength. Please help with very important autism research. Autism Center Opening. The first facility in Nassau County designed to help meet the needs of autistic children, their families and school districts in Queens and Long Island officially opens today in Bethpage. What is the Congressional Autism Caucus?
United Airlines will no longer offer gluten free meals as of March 1st. Article: Federal Way student redefines success: Autism prompted desire to offer help for families. Brainstorming New Learning: One child at a time. Detroit-area services offer innovative ways to help with motion, muscle control and autism. New Discrete Trials Video: This first educational video provided by NYFAC is geared towards Parents and Professionals as well. It offers lectures, examples and recaps of different discrete trial teaching programs and methods. Covered in this video are: Reinforcers, Gross motor Imitation, Receptive and Expressive language, Teaching a New Skill, Data, Prompting, Modeling, Errorless Learning, No-No Prompting, Shaping, Generalization and more. (Running time is approx. 62 minutes.) $59.99; Click on "Products" on the left column.
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New! Here is an excellent resource for testing-LabCorps Complete Index of Tests Article: Seattle: A second federal judge has ruled a class-action lawsuit against major drug companies that added mercury to vaccines should be tried in state court, not federal court. Article: A report released this week by the National Academies Institute of Medicine said a link between a vaccine administered to children and autism has not been established, but couldn't be totally ruled out. Article: Jordan is playing. Greenspan method helps bring autistic boy back to real world. Article: Autism a puzzle for parents. Family, friends help pieces fit for afflicted kids. Article: Disabled students are learning better, and in some cases communicating effectively for the first time, through an application of wearable computing technology that sprang from the initiative of an Ohio school district. The XyberKids package has allowed some students to move from special-needs environments into mainstream classrooms. Article: Mother to urge autism research. Laura Weinberg has had to adjust to raising her 6-year-old autistic son, Willie, on her own. Her husband, Richard Aronow, a Port Authority attorney, was killed Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center. Article: Twins may have an increased risk of developing autism which could be due to an unknown environmental trigger that occurs in the womb before birth, according to New Scientist magazine. Lynn Hamilton, author of Facing Autism: Giving Parents Reasons for Hope and Guidance for Help, will be interviewed by Dr. James Dobson on the international radio broadcast "Focus on the Family." Three distinct half-hour programs will be broadcast worldwide April 23-25. To find a station near you contact family.com. Article: Mom praises mercury therapy: Treatment still controversial. Most of you are probably now aware of the tragic and unexpected death of Joseph Hendrix, brother of Unlocking Autism Founder Shelley Reynolds. Shelley has been a tireless fighter for persons with autism and their families. Please consider a donation to Unlocking Autism in Joseph's honor . The State Reps are pooling their money to purchase Shelley a Cherry Blossom Tree, which will bloom each April in memory of Joseph. Please go to the Unlocking Autism Home Page and click the Donation button. Article: Can vaccines cause developmental disorders? Article: The number of Utah doctors coming forward to ease parents' fears on the safety of childhood immunizations has grown in the past few months.
Article: Parents say vaccines made their kids autistic, Article: Parents of autistic girl share wisdom. Article: The mystery of autism. A parent’s struggle to find a cure for a child By Karyn Seroussi. Article: Sending his eight-year-old autistic son to boarding school filled him with guilt. But the boy was a danger to both his family and himself
Article: Special boy, special day.
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to Congress on Autism (Newly Released) Prepared by the National
Institute of Mental Health See our Autism Photo Contest. (For those of you who have entered, Thanks!, we will be awarding prizes soon) New Scientific Paper from Dr. Wakefield and Company; The concept of entero-colonic encephalopathy, autism and opioid receptor ligands. Online Training in Treatment of Autism Launched; The course, a joint venture between The Child Development Centre at ComplementaryHealthE.com and 'Open Windows' is designed to cater for parents, who by virtue of the fact that they have children with special needs were unable to attend last weekend's 'Open Windows' training conference. Now for the first time they can access the training in their own time, at their own pace from the comfort of home. Article: Families donate books on autism. Article: Diet, Supplements, and Autism Spectrum Diagnosis: is there Therapeutic Value? AutismInfo.com
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publications, they can be found at: Article: Innovative ways to help with motion, muscle control and autism. Lynn Hamilton, Author of Facing Autism, will be interviewed by Dr. James Dobson. To find the station nearest to you go to the Focus on the Family website. Lee Grossman of Honolulu, president of the Autism Society of America, was recently appointed to a newly created Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Established by the Children's Health Act of 2000, the committee is charged with coordinating autism research and other efforts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies. The National Institute of Mental Health is the lead agency for the committee.
Outstanding Article: Drawing her out. Teen-ager's struggle to communicate has been a family affair. Seven new autism research articles from the FEAT Daily News. Article: Autistic boy learns how to spell success. Teen's Starvation Ruled a Homicide. The starvation death of an 18-year-old autistic man has been ruled a homicide, and authorities are focusing their investigation on family members who were caring for him while his father was jailed for unpaid parking tickets. Mercury-Autism Fight Looms in Georgia. State on front line of expanding cases over alleged cause of child regression.
Karyn
Seroussi on Today Show, April 15th.
If you can't watch it, this is what is Karyn plans on covering: U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Hearing on IDEA, April 25, on discipline, from 10-12 in Room 428 of the Dirksen Building, Washington D.C. The world of Joshua Whitehouse, 11, autist and artist. Joshua is 11 years old, living with his mum in Birmingham, central England, and autistic. He is also an artistic prodigy, one of only 23 in the world of his kind, whose drawings are startling critics here with their detail, imagination and depth.
Article: Homeowners annoyed by riding stable. To the grateful parents of disabled children, Starlight Farm's therapeutic riding program is a godsend. But to some neighbors, the farmstead off rural Ricker Drive is a nuisance that ought to be sent packing. From New Zealand: Autism increase highlights gaps.
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