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 Without a doubt HIV / AIDS, does meaningful involvement right. I know some in HIV will disagree but I have something to compare it to and involvement is better than no involvement and I understand not all organizations are great at supporting the Developmntally Disabled community.
 Theirs a thing in the Autism community, that’s so horrific we cannot name it. It’s so, taboo, amongst the Neurotypicals in our lives that we cannot label it, we cannot identify it, in fact Autistic people often mistake it for love.
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Adam Smith A couple years ago, Leigh Rolnicki, the executive director of LoveU2Pieces autism center in Brentwood, Missouri, was visited by the chief executive of Brain Power, a Cambridge startup working on technology to help people with neurological disorders.  By Paul Reed
From a quote on The Art of Autism quote page, Dani Bowman says “English is my 2nd language. Autism is my first.” This beautifully illustrates that contrast between how a neurotypical (that is, one who does not have Autism) thinks, acts, and sees the world, and how someone with Autism does. Our world is completely, totally, and utterly different. 
ZOLFO SPRINGS, Fla. (WFLA) - A 6-year-old boy with autism was handcuffed by a school resource officer for being disruptive. His mother is outraged and demanding changes.
Marisela Villa is doing everything she can to raise her son Elias right.  We’ve gotten much better at integration since the start of the autism wave, but it comes with risks, too.By ELIZABETH KUNREUTHER
I used to work for an autism treatment program, but now I work on an addiction and detox unit. Recently, I was sent a video from a series posted by the Des Moines Register titled “The Lost Boys of Heroin.” The video featured an anguished mother telling the story of her son’s overdose, summed up by the caption: “Richard, was a bright young man who loved fixing computers and navigating the web. He began using heroin to cope with the social stresses that came from having Asperger’s.”  Autism pioneer ‘complicit’ in euthanasia programme, medical historian claims. Hans Asperger, the respected Austrian paediatrician whose name describes a form of high-functioning autism, actively assisted in the murder of disabled children by the Nazis, a new report claims.
 Chicago researchers are spearheading efforts to find the complex biological underpinnings of autism — a brain disorder that affects one in 68 American children.
 Last week, I was in New York and had the opportunity morning to tour a true “autism-friendly workplace”—one that differs not only from most workplaces today but also from most workplaces that describe themselves as autism-friendly. I think you’ll be interested, whether you have a connection to autism or not.
Doug Ford accused home for kids with autism of ‘ruining the community’ and told one parent of an autistic child to ‘go to hell’
Father of son with autism calls Canada’s new immigration policy a ‘blessing for all of us’4/17/2018 
After Canada’s Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hussen, announced major reforms to Canada’s immigration policy on Monday, making it easier for persons with disabilities and their family members to immigrate to Canada, advocates, lawyers and those affected by the law are speaking out.
 Despite warnings, Oliver McGowan, 18, who had epilepsy, cerebral palsy and autism, was given antipsychotic medication The parents of a talented teenage athlete with who had epilepsy, cerebral palsy and autism have blamed their son’s death on “arrogant” doctors who defied their wishes and gave him antipsychotic medication.
Autism is a common diagnosis effecting 1 in 68 children. But understanding the diagnosis can be difficult, which is why Lee Health pediatric nurse practitioner Sherri Campbell says the sooner a child is screened, the sooner a diagnosis can be determined. “Our goal is to find them before they are three.”
 The history of the term Asperger's Syndrome is rather complicated. The condition now popularly recognized as autism was first proposed by Leo Kanner in 1943. A year later, an Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger described a somewhat similar condition which came to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. However, Hans was in wartime Germany and the condition bearing his name only became popularized in the early 80s mainly due to the publication of a paper by Lorna Wing (1981).
LA PORTE CITY, Iowa – The FBI is now involved in the search for a missing Black Hawk County teen.
Jake Wilson, 16, was last seen near Wolf Creek in La Porte City on the evening of April 7. The FBI is now asking the public to send in any photos or videos they may have taken in La Porte City on that day to help locate the autistic boy.  Boosting the activity of a class of neurons that dampen brain signals eases social problems in a mouse model of autism, according to a new study1.
The findings support a theory that autism stems from too much neuronal excitation in the brain. 
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (CNN) – The world’s largest LEGO replica of the doomed Titanic liner was built in 700 hours over 11 months — by a 10-year-old boy from Reykjavik who is on the autism spectrum. The model will make its American debut on Monday at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Brynjar Karl Bigisson, now 15 years old, built the replica with 56,000 LEGO bricks. It is 26 feet long and 5 feet tall.  This month, we are going to talk about whether behavioral interventions and/or therapies for autism can change the brain. In 2017, I wrote a review paper(link is external) about this topic and wanted to discuss it here as well. There is lots of evidence that behavioral interventions can change behavior in autism. Most interventions focus on social behaviors with the goal of increasing social communication (such as eye contact, initiating social interactions, being responsive to social behaviors from others, following another person’s eye gaze, etc). It’s great that these interventions have been shown to improve behavior, but since the scientific community generally agrees that autism is a brain-based disorder, studies have started measuring whether these interventions can change the brain.
 By Kathleen O’Brien
Ms. O’Brien is the parent of a 7-year-old son with autism. April 14, 2018In 2009, a study found that the mothers of children with autism experienced a level of chronic stress similar to that of combat soldiers. Two and a half years after I read about that study, I was told that my son had autism. He was about to turn 2. 
When her husband suddenly died in 2010, Stella Spanakos felt uncertain about what the future would hold for Nicholas, their son. Nicholas has autism, and this inspired Spanakos to think of a job he could be good at. She opened up a company that could employ Nicholas, and now, seven years later, it employs 20 people with autism and does more than $2 million of business a year, New York City’s ABC7 reports.
 Claudia Taboada said she had to quit her job as a lawyer to be able to care for her son who has autism spectrum disorder.
Taboada is part of a group of Quebec parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who are planning to take legal action against the Quebec government in an effort to improve services and access to them. 
Angie Seth takes a detailed look at a mobile unit, the first of its kind in North America, that gives people a firsthand experience of what it is like to have autism through a demonstration that involves intense video, sound and lights.
Dealing with autism Beautiful minds, wasted How not to squander the potential of autistic people4/15/2018  IN AMERICA in 1970 one child in 14,000 was reckoned to be autistic. The current estimate is one in 68—or one in 42 among boys. Similarly high numbers can be found in other rich countries: a study in South Korea found that one in 38 children was affected. Autism is a brain condition associated with poor social skills. It has a wide spectrum of symptoms, from obsessive behaviour to hypersensitivity to sound, light or other sensory stimulation, the severity of which ranges from mild to life-blighting. The range of consequences is also wide. At one end, the autism of a computer scientist may be barely noticeable; at the other, a quarter of autistic children do not speak.
Britain’s Got Talent was hailed for reviving the long-lost art of variety when it started back in 2007 – a time that now seems like The Good Old Days (appropriately).
12 years and 11 seasons later, BGT is the antithesis of variety: totally predictable and formulaic. Saturday’s opener was so old-fashioned it had nothing that would date it as being from 2018 (like a Donald Trump joke or R&B singer, let alone a grime artist) or make it look any different from 2017, 2008, or any series in between. The first episode had everything you’d have expected and so many of us are bored of it judging by the ratings for last year’s final, which were the lowest ever - NINE million less than 2009 when BGT peaked |
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