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Mass. program helps special needs children to fly
Flying with children can often be a nightmare, err- difficult. For some kids, however, the experience is downright terrifying. Two groups in Massachusetts are looking to change that. This past Friday,...
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Improving Dental Care One Visit at a Time
Is dental care challenging for your child? Would you rather walk on hot coals then attempt to brush your child’s teeth? Does your anxiety rise whenever you need to bring your child to the dentist?...
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A Family’s Search For Fragile X Drug Finds Frustration, Hope
For a few weeks last year, Michael Tranfaglia and Katie Clapp saw a remarkable change in their son, Andy, who’d been left autistic and intellectually disabled by fragile X syndrome. Andy, who is 25,...
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For Special-Care Residents, NY Policy Means Leaving Home
Long after lunchtime one recent afternoon, John Cosentino sat at his usual table, eating his usual snacks. On this day, he was the only resident of the Brooklyn Developmental Center in its cavernous...
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A Discredited Vaccine Study’s Continuing Impact on Public Health
In the churning over the refusal of some parents to immunize their children against certain diseases, a venerable Latin phrase may prove useful: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. It means, “After this,...
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New Gene Studies Suggest There Are Hundreds of Kinds of Autism
Geoffrey Ondrich and Waylon Cude are both 16 years old. Both boys have autism, and both would rather use their computers than do almost anything else in the world. But that’s just about all they have...
View ArticleRecord-Breaking Autistic Runner is Smashing Barriers and Inspiring Others
To those who know Mike Brannigan, it should come as no surprise that he is Sports Illustrated’s High School Athlete of the Month. Mike is a record-breaking autistic runner who is smashing barriers,...
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I’m Autistic, And Believe Me, It’s A Lot Better Than Measles.
The autistic brain is not particularly good at understanding irony, and yet most people I’ve met on the autism spectrum have, over time, developed a pretty strong grasp of the concept. Many of us have...
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When Children With Autism Grow Up
The heat that afternoon was intense. Weather maps across Iowa were deep red, and warnings flashed across the screen. A high school football player on the other side of the state had died from heat...
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‘Play’ May Be More Stressful for Kids With Autism
Children with autism appear to approach play differently than typically developing children, a recent study contends. “Children with autism lack a social component to their play and don’t ‘adjust’...
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