29/10/2012

AUTISM IN THE NEWS


  1. More programs needed for autistic adults: parent

    Your Ottawa Region
    More programs needed for autistic adults: parent. The Kanata Language Arts Program, an educational day course for adults with development ...
  2. Autistic boy given tracker device after disappearance

    TVNZ
    When autistic boy Ryan Peel, 5, went missing on the Orongorongo Track on Saturday, police and Land Search and Rescue sent around 25 ...



  3. Staten Islanders walk for autism -- and raise $158000!

    SILive.com
    STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The specter of Hurricane Sandy didn't stop hundreds of Staten Islanders from heading to the beach Sunday, to take ...

    SILive.com
  4. Missing autistic boy reunited with family

    TVNZ
    The family of an autistic boy who went missing in the bush at Rimutaka Forest Park yesterday, say he is his "usual self" today. It was a ...


    3News NZ
  5. Autistic teens and adults need plain talk on sex

    Toronto Star
    Of all the slide show presentations in all the conference halls in the city of Toronto on Wednesday, it's safe to wager that Dr. Peter Gerhardt ...


    Toronto Star
  6. Autism: Environmental factors often neglected in search for a cause

    Toronto Star
    In 1990, 6 out of 10,000 children were diagnosed with autism by age 5 in California. In 2001, it was 42 in 10,000 — a 600 per cent spike.

    Toronto Star
  7. Autism experts should always include parents, advocates say

    Toronto Star
    He spoke quietly. But amid a sea of autism researchers and professionals, the words of a father rang out Thursday at a major Toronto ...

    Toronto Star
  8. Early intervention can normalize brains in autistic children

    Daily Democrat
    An intensive early intervention therapy that is effective for improving cognition and language skills among very young children with autism also ...


    RedOrbit
  9. Are You On It?

    New York Magazine
    “Is every man in America somewhere on it?” Nora Ephron wondered about the autism spectrum in an e-mail to a friend a few months before her ...

    New York Magazine
  10. Autistic Basketball Hero Jason McElwain Qualifies for Boston ...

    The Province (blog)
    Jason McElwain, a high-functioning autistic teenager, inspired a nation when he scored 20 points during a basketball game at Greece Athena ...