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Thomas Is a Really Useful Engine After All
A new electronic game is helping autistic children more accurately recognise emotions using Thomas characters. As reported in the Daily Telegraph, Thomas the Tank Engine has already proven very popular with autistic kids, perhaps because they have very clear facial expressions, Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) says. They've joined forces wi...
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Mum Gives 9-Year-Old Marijuana
Writer Marie Myung-Ok Lee pushes marijuana on her 9-year-old son. She mixes it in cookies and teas. She offers him hits from a bong-like vapouriser — whatever it takes to get him high. But she's not some kind of hard-partying "if it feels good, do it" hippie mum. Lee is trying to help her autistic son, who spends large parts of his days an...
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Jenny McCarthy To Get Her Own Talk Show?
According to the rumour mill, 1993 Playmate of the Year turned anti-vaccination activist Jenny McCarthy may get her own daytime talk show, produced by none other than the Oprah herself. McCarthy — who recently punk'd all of her friends and family into believing that she and Jim Carrey were engaged to be wed — is set to join Dr. P...
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Babble Wrap: Mexican Boy Edgar Hernandez, 4, The First Victim Of Swine Flu
Mexican Boy Edgar Hernandez, 4, The First Victim Of Swine Flu The first known case of swine flu emerged a fortnight earlier than previously thought in a village where residents have long complained about the smell and flies from a nearby pig farm, it emerged yesterday. The Australian Possible Swine Flu Outbreaks At Two Or More Schools New Yor...
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Vaccines
THE BABBLE TAKE The discovery of vaccines and widespread immunisation has helped all but extinguish many infectious diseases like tuberculosis and polio, once common causes of death or disability in children. However, some parents are now opting out of immunising children because they fear side effects. They argue that vaccines, or rather ingr...
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Spiderman Rescues Autistic Boy
To be fair it was really "a Bangkok firefighter in a Spiderman suit." But to the kid, it was probably Spiderman. So I prefer my original phrasing. The BBC reports that a Thai fireman named Somchai Yoosabai put on a Spidey suit in order to coax an eight-year-old autistic boy down from a ledge. It was his first day at school. The boy's mother told...
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What Explains High Autism Rates Among Somali Immigrants?
A medical mystery is brewing in Minnesota, U.S.A, where thirty to sixty thousand Somali refugees and their families have settled and where, increasingly, that community's children are experiencing high rates of autism. According to an article in the New York Times, while about 6% of the Minneapolis public school population is Somali, they repre...
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Study Says High Pressure Chambers Show Promise For Autistic Kids
A new study shows that hyperbaric oxygen treatment can help lessen the outward symptoms of autism. Dr. Daniel A. Rossignol of the international Child Development Resource Center in Melbourne, Fla., conducted the blind study of 62 children ranging in ages from two to seven. After 40 one-hour treatments spanning four weeks, the group that received...
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I’m Not A Brat, I’m Autistic
My 10-year-old nephew is autistic. Not in a "quirky," "neurodiverse" kind of way, but in a typical, sometimes aggressive kind of way. When our families go out together, as we often do, I like to pretend that people are looking at us because of the eight adorable children trailing us, but I know what they're really looking at is Jonah: Jonah bit...
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