25/11/2012

AUTISM IN THE NEWS


19/11/2012

AUTISM IN THE NEWS




  1. Kelly Preston Opens Up About Late Son's Autism

    The Inquisitr-by Niki Cruz
    In a rare candid interview, Kelly Preston has finally opened up about her late son, Jett Travolta's condition that lead to his death in 2009.
  2. Study Finds Autistic Kids With Psychiatric Disorders More Likely To ...

    PsychCentral.com (blog)
    Many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) take psychotropic medications to treat associated symptoms of their conditions, such as ...
  3. The Autism Project: Mothers with ASD ask why scientists are missing ...

    Toronto Star-2012-11-17
    In 1943, the ghost of Sigmund Freud still stalked the hallways of psychiatry. So when Austrian-born child psychiatrist Leo Kanner wrote the first ...
  4. The Autism Project: Teens with autism face uncertain fate

    Toronto Star-2012-11-16
    A Thornhill couple is advised by provincial officials to leave their 19-year-old autistic son, who wears diapers, at a homeless shelter if they can't ...
  5. The Autism Project: Toronto police to receive autism awareness ...

    Toronto Star-2012-11-17
    This year, for the first time, all 5,700 Toronto police officers will receive autism awareness training. Curtis Molyneaux, a former Emergency Task ...
  6. Learning about autism and about a child's identity

    Toronto Star-2012-11-17
    There was no joy in Jack. Through the first 10 months of his life, my wife and I had seen only snippets of the kind of bouncing baby boy you ...
  7. Kids with autism and child prodigies may share certain traits

    WOWK
    Faye Robertson is hoping her great niece, Ashley Ramey, decides to come home, after she escaped from her group home about two weeks ...
  8. Autistic Southend teenager locked up for six days

    Southend Standard
    A TEENAGER with autism had to be banged up for six days because a suitable care home could not be found. The 17-year-old boy from ...
  9. The Autism Project: York University students with Asperger's thrive in ...

    Toronto Star-2012-11-16
    Last year, more than 800 students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) registered for support at Ontario colleges and universities — a number ...
  10. Study tentatively links flu in pregnancy and infantile autism

    Vancouver Sun-2012-11-14
    Kids whose mothers had the flu while pregnant were slightly more likely to be diagnosed with “infantileautism” before age three in a new ...