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Adults Living With Autism
The newest autism statistics from the Centers for Disease Control are staggering; 1 in 100 individuals are diagnosed with autism each year (1 in 90 in New Jersey; 1 in 74 among New Jersey boys!) Two decades ago an autism diagnosis was one in 10,000!...Tags: Autism, Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Conditions, New Jersey
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Autism NJ Seeks To Help Autistic Adults Receive Available Gov't Services
PIX11.comForty-seven-year-old John Richardson's parents knew something was wrong when he was born. At 2-years-old, he was diagnosed with autism. Since then his place on the autism spectrum has been given a name, Asperger's Syndrome. "I had plenty of learning...Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Lifetime (tv network), Health, New Jersey
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Surfer's Healing: A Camp For Autistic and Disabled Children
PIX11.comChances are, someone you know has an autistic child. According to the National Institutes of Health, three to six out of 1,000 children will be diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and boys are four times as likely to have ASD, than girls. And...Tags: Land Surfing, Autism, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Family
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NJ Foundation Teaches Autistic Adults How To Live Independently
PIX11.comAutism Spectrum Disorders now affect 1 in 110 children according to a 2009 report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With these statistics on the rise, people like Linda Walder Fiddle, founder and executive director of The Daniel...Tags: Local Government, Autism, Health, Politics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Special Diets May Not Help Autistic Kids
New research says there's still no proof that special diets help autistic kids.
An expert panel says there's no rigorous evidence that digestive problems known as leaky gut or autistic enterocolitis are more common in children with autism, and special...Tags: Diets and Dieting, Advice Columns and Columnists, Autism, Children, Pediatrics
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ASD students learn to cook — and much more
For some reason, I get invited to a lot of cooking competitions, both as a judge and as an observer. I can't go to all of them — I'd weigh 500 pounds — but when I was invited to last week's Aspires Teen Iron Chef competition between two teams...Tags: Dietary Supplements, Iron (dietary supplement), Teaching and Learning, Justice System, Facebook
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Program Provides Children Free Meals Through Summer
Channel 2 NewsThe Children's Lunchbox, a group that partners with Bean's Cafe, kicked off its summer meal program on Monday, delivering and serving up free lunches and dinner for kids at a couple of sites in Anchorage. Fifty-six lunches were served at the Muldoon Boys...Tags: Charity
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New Start For Old Building Housing Renowned School For The Deaf
The American School for the Deaf had to face reality. Its majestic old building was rundown and unsafe. That was in 1921. For a century before that, the school, then the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, had been located on eponymous Asylum Avenue,...Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Students, Hartford Financial Services Group Incorporated, Hearing Impairment
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Carol Comeau Says Goodbye To Anchorage Students
Channel 2 NewsCarol Comeau, the longtime superintendent of the Anchorage School District, had good reason to celebrate Thursday -- the last day of school for students this year, as well as Comeau's last school day before she retires on June 30. Comeau began her career...Tags: Ocean View, Lee County (Florida)
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IronPigs helping Allen and Dieruff programs
Groller's CornerThere's a ceremony, actually two of them, planned for tomorrow in which the IronPigs are presenting checks to the Allentown School District to help sports programs at Allen and Dieruff. Here's the release from ASD and kudos to the IronPigs and IronPigs... -
Allen High students help Lehigh University researchers with autism study
Allen High senior Nathan Nembhard looked across the cafeteria lunch table at the girl. He needed to get her attention. But she was having none of that. She found greater joy in her meal and juice box. Quickly and stealthily, he sized her up, looking...
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June 12, 2010: Cleavage and boxers creating headaches for Allentown
Cleavage is out of control at Allen and Dieruff high schools, creating a distracting learning environment and a touchy enforcement issue for staff, according to an Allentown School District safety task force. "How do we regulate cleavage?" Susan Lozada,...Tags: Teachers, Allentown, Health, Teaching and Learning, Students
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