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| HOW JOHNNY STARTED 2008 - A MOMENT OF REAL EXCITEMENT |
| FIRST OF all, a very happy New Year to one and all. I wish you all the best for 2008. Rather than report on the latest spate of very thrilling... |
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| COULD JOHNNY'S UNRESTRAINED BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT GABA LINK TO AUTISM? |
| IT HAS BEEN a while since I gave a detailed account of my son's behaviour, so the time is ripe. For the newcomers among you, his name is Johnny, he... |
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| INVALUABLE - AND SURPRISING - INSIGHTS EMERGE FROM UTA FRITH'S SYMPOSIUM |
| I HAVE been promising AutismConnect readers a report on the important recent mini-symposium on the latest autism research, hosted in London by one of... |
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| JOHNNY AT 14 - AN UPDATE |
| I FIND it almost incredible that my autistic son, Johnny, has just celebrated his fourteenth birthday. My wife went down to see him at his excellent... |
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| FAREWELL TO BERNARD RIMLAND, DEBUNKER OF THE TERRIBLY DAMAGING 'REFRIGERATOR MOTHER' MYTH |
| NOT SO long after the loss of another great autism pioneer, Dr Eric Schopler, it is very sad to have to say farewell to Dr Bernard Rimland, who died... |
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| AUTISM SHOWS ITS STRENGTHS IN CAMBRIDGE |
| I WAS going to devote this latest column to the abuse of the term “autism” in the media – but that will have to wait until... |
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| AUTISM IS LARGELY GENETIC - BUT DON'T IGNORE THE ENVIRONMENT |
| THIS WEEK, Affymetrix Inc., a DNA-analysis company based in Santa Clara, California, announced that its 500K Array had been... |
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| A SAD FAREWELL TO ERIC SCHOPLER, THE PIONEERING FOUNDER OF TEACCH |
| I HAVE some sad news to report. Dr Eric Schopler, a pioneer in the field of autism education, died on July 7 at the age of 79. Eric was a wonderfully... |
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| WHY FAMILIES WITH AUTISM URGENTLY NEED A 'DESPAIR-PROOF' SUPPORT SYSTEM |
| ONE OF the most disturbing aspects of the two horrific recent cases in which a mother has killed her autistic child - one in Britain... |
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| CAN UNORTHODOX TREATMENTS FOR AUTISM WORK? |
| Just how effective are the treatments for autism which most mainstream practitioners reject as unproven, expensive or even - in some cases -... |
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