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A CBS News story on No help for autistic children in Baghdad asks, what if you think you detect the symptoms of autism in your child but there’s no doctor—because he’s fled the country—-to even give you a diagnosis, let alone any services?
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Couple of weeks ago the Minnesota Post did an article on rates of autism in Somali children in Minneapolis, with the suggestion that “something” about being in the US was causing higher rates of autism. Today’s Raleigh News-Observer also reports on autism in the children of recent immigrants to the US, but with an […]
Charlie and I found ourselves in the pool every day last week and he got in two rounds of bowling.
In today’s USNews and World Report, Nancy Shute reviews a number of recent studies on genetics, including the study published this week in Science. She also discusses why a clinical trial of chelation could provide parents […]
37-year-old Wafaa al Nuaimi has three children, one of whom, 8-year-old Mustafa, is autistic. His father, a doctor, has remained in Iraq while his wife and three children are now in Syria where, CNN reports, Mustafa is getting the training he needs towards helping him be more independent.
His mother first tried to get him treatment […]
The May 27th Yemen Observer estimates that there are 40,000 - 133,000 autistic individuals in the country (no studies are cited). Ahlam Al-Arashi, the executive manager of the Yemen Center for Autism, thinks that there may be as many as 150,000 autistic individuals in Yemen, as noted in the Yemen Times. Says the director […]
There’s been plenty of debate about whether or not there is an epidemic of autism; about whether or not the increase in the prevalence rate of autism (now 1 in 150) is due to our being better able to diagnose and count cases of autism, or whether there is some actual something that can be […]
Remote-controlled explosives were strapped to two women with Down’s syndrome and detonated in coordinated attacks on two Friday morning markets in central Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 73 people and wounding nearly 150. The first targeted shoppers at a pet market in the al-Ghazl area, killing 46 people and injuring 100. About 20 minutes later, […]
Whether in Piscataway, NJ or in Bahrain, school is the start. The Sneha centre for children with special needs is the only centre of its kind for specially challenged expatriate children in Bahrain. Pakistani Mohammed Rafeeq, a welder in Bahrain, could not afford the fees which were more than his salary. The Gulf Daily News […]
You can buy music at Starbucks, you can get iTunes at Starbucks, you can get connected at Starbucks, you can get caffeine-refueled at Starbucks. (Thanks to a Starbucks card that was a present from last Christmas, I replaced my broken coffee pot gratis.) And now (in Bahrain), you can hear about autism. AME Info reports:
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Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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