03/25/13 COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR AUTISM.

• Join Easter Seals Train Your Brain Challenge with Posit Science _{2013-03-25, 12:31 pm}
  ... conditions like attention deficit disorder, traumatic brain injury, depression, addiction, Alzheimer's disease, autism and many more," says James E. Williams, Jr., president and chief executive officer, Easter Seals. "This is the vision behind ...
• New Partnership to Advance Brain Health, Especially for Individuals... _{2013-03-25, 12:31 pm}
  ... conditions like attention deficit disorder, traumatic brain injury, depression, addiction, Alzheimer's disease, autism and many more," says James E. Williams, Jr., president and chief executive officer, Easter Seals. "This is the vision behind ...
• How autism care can cost families millions _{2013-03-25, 12:16 pm}
  Lost amid the recent coverage about the frightening rise in reported cases of autism is any discussion of the costs to families -- which can be staggering.
• Drake Institute - Uniqueness of Each Patient Requires Individualized Treatment Protocols _{2013-03-25, 12:00 pm}
  ... posterior region of the brain that would interfere with being able to pick up on social cues. Another patient on the Autism Spectrum could have the same difficulty with processing social cues but it could be a result of too much fast brainwave ...
• Why are more children being diagnosed with autism? _{2013-03-25, 11:24 am}
  Over the last two decades, the number of children diagnosed with autism, or autism spectrum disorder , has risen at an alarming rate.
• Supervised self-harm was allowed at special school _{2013-03-25, 03:00 am}
  ... Priory Group and offers education to boys and girls aged seven to 19 with Asperger's syndrome and higher functioning autism. According to the controlled self-harm procedure, handed out to staff but aborted after just six days, the pupil would be ...
• Baby Einstein videos educate typical and autistic children _{2010-01-27, 08:25 pm}
  ... for the arts. That is what the Baby Einstein videos create. This is personal. As a mother of a child with autism , I received the Baby Bach video as a gift from a friend. From the very first time the video played, my son received the needed feedback ...
• Portsmouth family shares autism story _{2013-03-25, 02:56 am}
  ... new memoir written by a local school paraprofessional makes clear. "Bringing up John: One Family's Life with Autism" tells the story of Ellen and Alvin Walker and their son, John Walker, a 33-year-old local man with autism. The 124-page book, ...
• The mission of Tomas _{2013-03-25, 02:31 am}
  Tomas Perez Diaz was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder , a condition on the autism spectrum, marked by significant developmental delays cognitive and motor, play, communication, and difficulty interacting with others.
• Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff NorwellLearning social skills while having fun _{2013-03-23, 03:00 am}
  ... social skills to children and young adults with social learning disabilities. Children with Asperger's syndrome or autism can have difficulty interpreting social cues and interacting with peers, she said, making it hard to make friends and fit in. ...
• Birmingham letters _{2013-03-24, 07:59 am}
  In the past year, ground-breaking research has uncovered precise genetic links between autism and fragile X syndrome giving families like ours hope that treatment for many of the core symptoms of both conditions is on the horizon.
• The hoax at the bottom of Autism and Alzheimer's _{2013-03-24, 01:00 am}
  For the medical cartel, Autism and Alzheimer's are big, big business. Profits are soaring.
• For boy with Asperger's, bar mitzvah is extra special _{2013-03-24, 01:31 am}
  ... the Torah. The seventh-grader at Morgan Fitzgerald Middle School in Largo has Asperger's syndrome, a disorder on the autism spectrum. "It's the higher functioning end of the spectrum," said Kathleen Hinkle, who works as an exceptional student ...
• A Multisite Study of the Clinical Diagnosis of Different Autism Spectrum Disorders _{2013-03-23, 09:22 pm}
  Objective To determine whether the relationships between behavioral phenotypes and clinical diagnoses of different autism spectrum disorders vary across 12 university-based sites.
• Scientists suffer for trying to make vaccine side effects public _{2013-03-23, 01:45 pm}
  ... side effects. Dr. Andrew Wakefield , a British doctor made claims linking the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism and as a result of all of the criticism and shun by the scientific community that he received, some scientists say they are ...
• Urge lawmakers to increase access to vaccines _{2013-03-23, 03:00 am}
  ... to the contrary, remain concerned that giving so many shots at once is unsafe and that the MMR vaccine might cause autism. These children are then at high risk of contracting vaccine-preventable diseases and transmitting them to other children who ...
• 'Different in a good way' _{2013-03-23, 07:06 am}
  Teacher Jessica Patterson says when most students begin her autism resource class at North Whitfield Middle School they arrive "broken and crushed" from bullying in the Whitfield County Schools system.
• The Autism and Genius of Bill Hamilton _{2013-03-23, 06:29 am}
  ... the slowest to pick up the rules." As an adult, he described himself as possessing "notably a trait approaching to autism about what most regard as the higher attributes of our species," and went on to portray himself as "a person who a believes he ...
• Montgomery County BOE: Briers refutes parent's complaint: Municipal Court case alleges harassment _{2013-03-23, 03:00 am}
  ... suffering because of that. Irby's daughter suffers from depression and her son has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. On one recording, a voice allegedly belonging to Briers can be heard asking, "What did I say about your children?" Irby ...
• Art is woman's means of communication _{2013-03-23, 02:45 am}
  ... my art," says Ruth (not her real name). "My verbal communication is misunderstood many times. I was diagnosed with autism--Asperger's Syndrome in 2008. Now I understand why I was always in trouble at school. Noise always bothered me and made it hard ...