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Autism Vox Goodbye
We thank Autism Vox readers for their feedback and attention over the past seven months. It has been a great experience getting to know you all, and I hope we provided opinions, news, and stories that helped you. You can continue to follow us at a new blog we will be posting soon. For more ...
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Mini-Theft of Multi-Cultural Figurines
From the random files of autism: Alex is building himself quite a collection of little figures that he has a deep attachment to: dolls, more or less, though some might call them figures or dollhouse people. They’re a multi-cultural collection of professional people, an Hispanic medical ...
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Insurance Tactic Shot Down in L.A.
Score one for our side: A tactic used by insurance companies to deny expensive behavioral therapy to autistic children has been deemed illegal by a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge, who has found that Kaiser Permanente’s refusal to pay for a child’s autism treatment because ...
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Hop Like a Frog, Walk Like a Bear
While we were waiting for the bus, I said to Alex, “Say, ‘I like sports and fitness!’ ” “No!” Alex replied, shaking his head for emphasis. Photo courtesy of longhorndave (flickr.com) So much for going in with an enthusiastic beginning. Still, we ...
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Asperger’s Defense; ASD in Tenn.
Slate ’s Erica Westly takes an interesting look at the increasing incidence of Asperger’s as a legal defense , citing the recent headline case of British computer whiz Gary McKinnon, who hacked into almost 100 U.S. government and NASA computers after becoming obsessed with the ...
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The Dark Night
Central Park has its Pumpkin Sail this evening, an event the boys enjoy. At dusk you bring your jack-o’-lantern to the park, admire the other lanterns, and then the pumpkins are lit, then launched into the Harlem Meer . You walk around the lake oohing and aahing over the sight of ...
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Firing Parents?
ABC News reports that doctors have begun “firing” parents who decline to have thier children vaccinated. One California mom, who’s oldest child has been diagnosed with autism said her doctor said the presence of her and her child was “too much of a liability.” ...
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Genetics, More Observations from Attwood
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have uncovered a new genetic signature that correlates strongly with autism and which doesn’t involve changes to the DNA sequence itself, a finding that may suggest new approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Researchers found higher-than-usual ...
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