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Article on the Atlantic.com: 'How My Autistic Son Got Lost in the Public School System'

January 4, 2013

4 January 2013, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Atlantic.com] by Amy Mackin The waiting room was loud and chaotic. Toddlers were stacking blocks, then squealing with excitement as they knocked them over and watched them fall. Baby toys were chiming and buzzing. A cartoon was blaring on the television…...

January 4, 2013

4 January 2013, News, Newsletter, TBI

[Source: Medical News Today, ABC News] Physicians at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Northwest Radiology Network (Indianapolis, Indiana) report the case of a 17-year-old high school football player with second impact syndrome (SIS). A rare and devastating traumatic brain injury,…...

New Information On Autism and Genetics

January 3, 2013

4 January 2013, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] Research out of the George Washington University (GW), published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals another piece of the puzzle in a genetic developmental disorder that causes behavioral diseases such as autism. Anthony-Samuel…...

January 3, 2013

4 January 2013, Autism, News

[Source: Medical News Today] Autistic-like behaviors can be partially remedied by normalizing excessive levels of protein synthesis in the brain, a team of researchers has found in a study of laboratory mice. The findings, which appear in the latest issue of Nature,…...

January 2, 2013

4 January 2013, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Your Therapy Source] A recent research study using a mouse model was published in the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology comparing the soleus muscle in mice with Down syndrome and mice without Down syndrome. The results…...

January 2, 2013

4 January 2013, Article, Newsletter

by Margaret Rice, PT Since I posted these last year and certainly did not accomplish them all I though it was worth repeating below for 2013. As I reflect on 2012 some goals were easier to reach than others – as for…...

January 2, 2013

4 January 2013, Lanaguage, Newsletter, SLP

by Katie Yeh, M.S. CCC-SLP, Playing With Words 365 Recently a fellow SLP shared an article from the UK entitled Gadgets blamed for 70 per cent leap in child speech problems in just six years. It got a small dialogue started when I shared…...

January 2, 2013

4 January 2013, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Best Practice Autism] One of the most controversial comorbidities in children with ASD is the co-occurrence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Comorbidity refers to the presence of more than one diagnosis occurring in an individual at the same time. Although…...

January 2, 2013

4 January 2013, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Newborns are much more attuned to the sounds of their native language than first thought. In fact, these linguistic whizzes can up pick on distinctive sounds of their mother tongue while in utero, a new study has concluded. Research…...

December 31, 2012

4 January 2013, Fragile X, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A single genetic defect on the X chromosome that can result in a wide array of conditions — from learning and emotional difficulties to primary ovarian insufficiency in women and tremors in middle-aged men — occurs at a much…...