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Article: District tackles autism early. Facing massive growth in the number of children diagnosed with autism each year, the Torrance Unified School District is planning to reach out to these youngsters even before they reach school age — almost unheard of for a public school system.

Article: Learning’s costly curve. Schools cope amid growing disabled-student population, special-education expenses,

Article: Police dog aids in rescue of autistic boy. An 8-year-old boy with autism who wandered away from home Sunday morning was found and returned safely with the help of a K-9 search dog who tracked his scent.

Article: Risperidone in Children with Autism and Serious Behavioral Problems.

Article: Program teaches police officers discretion.

Article: Murder-suicide shakes the Orange County, California autism Community.

New Book
Autistic Spectrum Disorders Understanding the Diagnosis and Getting Help; Mitzi Waltz
This second edition includes all the basic information needed by parents of a child who has been diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder, adults who want to gain more insight and self-help skills, and professionals working with individuals on the autistic spectrum. Covers medical overviews, recent research, diagnosis, treatment, insurance, school, family issues, money and management ideas, building a support system, and an inside look at life on the autistic spectrum.

Autism Society of America Presents 2002 Media Excellence in Video Award to First Signs for "On the Spectrum: Children and Autism"

A Visual Teaching Method for Children with Autism By Liisa Neumann. A Guide for Parents and Educators A Visual Teaching Method for Children with Autism is an instructional process of videotaping behaviors related to autism in a specific way in order to develop the ability to memorize, imitate and generalize (appropriately adapt) those behaviors.

Article: Girl pens book on autistic sibling.

Article: Camp helps kids with autism.

Article: New book is road map to help parents 'find' their child who has autism.

Article: Brain may grow too fast, too early in autism. Two new reports provide more evidence that people with autism have slightly enlarged brains in childhood. But by adolescence, the differences in brain size between people with and without autism largely disappear, according to the research.

Article: Defense of autistic son leaves mom facing prison.

Article: Hunt narrows in the search for autism gene. The worldwide search for the causes of autism is close to a decisive breakthrough, according to the British doctor at the forefront of the international investigation. Dr Anthony Bailey, recently appointed the country's first professor of autism at Oxford University, believes the first of the genes responsible for the condition could be identified within two years.

Article: Stock in a California high-tech firm was supposed to constitute the largest gift ever to a public university. But with the nation's stock market sinking, the $250 million gift to the University of Colorado to create the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities could be in jeopardy - or at least take much longer to attain. Since the signing of the gift agreement with CU on Jan. 10, 2001, stock in San Jose-based BEA Systems has plunged in value 87 percent, from $56.25 per share to $7.30 per share Friday.

Article: Scots study on autism poses new question of MMR link.
A scientist in Scotland yesterday revealed new research which could indicate a link between autism and the MMR vaccine by showing that autistic children have abnormally high levels of toxins in their bodies. The study by Gordon Bell, of Stirling University, also raises hopes that autism may not be genetic and instead be a physical, and therefore potentially treatable, condition. Lead, aluminium and antimony (similar to arsenic but more toxic) were found to be present in children suffering from autism at a higher level than other children.