| World Autism Awareness Day |
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On December 18, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 62/139, tabled by the State of Qatar, which declares April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) in perpetuity.
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| A Gallop Toward Hope: One Family’s Adventure in Fighting Autism |
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When Rupert Isaacson decided to take his autistic son, Rowan, on a trip to Mongolia to ride horses and seek the help of shamans two years ago, he had a gut instinct that the adventure would have a healing effect on the boy.
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| Teaching autistic kids to read facial expressions |
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Social cues can be confusing or even scary for an autistic child. But robots, videos and more are getting in the act, and for some it's working.
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| Autism And Talent - Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B |
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Why do many autistic people develop outstanding abilities in domains like drawing, music, computation, and reading? What aspects of autism predispose to talent? What can taxi drivers teach us about talent?
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| Families battle autism costs |
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A new generation of young adults with autism, is growing up without vital health insurance. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
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| Ami Klin: Reaching Children With Autism |
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Ami Klin, PhD, of the Yale Child Study Center, is among the researchers who report on autism and attention in the advance online edition of Nature. Here are excerpts from his comments emailed to WebMD.
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| Growing Old with Autism |
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Noah, my younger brother, does not talk. Nor can he dress himself, prepare a meal for himself or wipe himself. He is a 42-year-old man, balding, gaunt, angry and, literally, crazy. And having spent 15 years at the Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., a state facility, Noah has picked up the con's trick of lashing out before anyone could take a shot at him.
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