| Doctors call for universal autism screenings |
| Parents of children diagnosed with autism and related conditions say new guidelines urging screening for all children twice by age 2 is a step in the right direction - but remains a long way from providing answers about a perplexing spectrum of disorders. >> |
| Be Afraid Of What You're Made Of, Study Says |
| A mother of two daughters and certified school psychologist, Laura Anderson has long suspected there is an environmental cause to the learning disabilities, childhood cancers and autism that she sees at schools and in her own neighborhood. >> |
| Autism Movement Therapy |
| Empowering Children through Music and Movement >> |
| McCarthy's fine with son's autism |
| Approach she used met with criticism >> |
| More parents shirking vaccine requirements |
| More Massachusetts parents are saying vaccines conflict with their religious beliefs so their children do not have to get immunized before they enter school, according to state records. >> |
| Bush To Veto Ban On Mercury In Vaccines |
| Clear links to neurological disorders ignored, removed from animal vaccines but fine for babies >> |
| Therapists get graphic results with virtual reality |
| Ashawn Brewer powers his Formula One racer onto the track. He almost loses it on a fast curve but -- yes! -- he recovers with a hard swerve to left. >> |
| A long shadow is lifted on Asperger's in adults |
| Ten years ago, Kathy Marshack, a psychologist in Vancouver, Wash., was unfamiliar with Asperger's syndrome in adults. >> |
| Autistic child's parents concerned over 3-hour school time-out |
| Parents of an 8-year-old autistic girl, who attended a Waukee elementary school, want changes made in time-out policies after their daughter was shut in an empty room for three hours. >> |
| Six groups nationwide receive federal grants |
| A pioneering autism researcher at UCSD and several scientific colleagues will receive about $11 million in federal funds over the next five years to create a major research effort to find a root cause of the disorder, the university announced yesterday. >> |
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