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Break reported in autism treatment, detection

There's new research into how kids with autism learn, and as CBS 2's Lisa... more

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50 Blogs You Should Bookmark for Autism Awareness Month

April is Autism Awareness Month, a time set aside to learn about the condition of... more

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World Autism Awareness Day in San Francisco

Today I’m having yet another guest blogger and that is my wife Mama Fog who runs... more

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Playgrounds R Us

Since it’s spring break and our daughter is too young to be running around half... more

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Kaspar the friendly robot helps autistic kids

Eden Sawczenko used to recoil when other little girls held her hand and turned stiff... more

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Technology Changing Autistic lives

Check out what the education system of England is working on!... more

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Dealing with Autism…

As most of you are aware my daughter, Becca has been diagnosed with autism. While she... more

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Becca’s Birthday and the SFUSD

Yesterday was my daughter’s fourth birthday and she had a fun party at her... more

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Cop Arrested and handcuff mentally challenged student who pinched teacher

A West Georgia Sheriff is defending his deputy’s decision to arrest, handcuff and jail a mentally challenged student who acted up in the classroom.
Tessie Collins, 17, was booked into the Haralson County Jail on Tuesday on charges of simple battery and obstruction of a law enforcement after a school resource officer witnessed her pinch a student and a teacher at Haralson County High School.
“The officer had to do something,” Sheriff Eddie Mixon told Channel 2’s Mike Petchenik. “In my opinion, it was handled with kid gloves. You got to stop it. That’s our job, it’s to stop the violence.”
Mixon said Collins was released from jail on her own recognizance several hours after her arrest.
“I’m furious,” said Tessie’s mother, Ann Collins.
Collins told Petchenik that her daughter has developmental delays that give her the mental capacity of an 8-year-old child. She said the school system is well aware of her daughter’s tendency to pinch people when they “invade her space.”
“She should be secluded by herself or a parent is called to come pick her up,” she said. “It’s just a misunderstanding. She doesn’t know what she’s doing and that should have been taken into consideration.”
Haralson County School Superintendent Brett Stanton wouldn’t discuss the particulars of the incident but told Petchenik he would be investigating what happened.
“I feel I have a responsibility to look into that concern and make sure that, from my standpoint, it’s been reviewed and examined,” said Stanton.
Stanton said there were 150 special education students at the high school. He said the district has procedures in place to deal with each one’s behavior. But, he said, if a student broke the law, it would be up to the school resource officer to handle the situation.
“Just because the student falls into that category of being special education or a student with disabilities, doesn’t mean they are given carte-blanche to break school rules or anything like that,” he said.

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Something mystical about J-Mac

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50 Great Blogs & Links for Autism Teachers

With one out of about every 150 children suffering from one of the Autism spectrum... more

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Weekly Pulse: White House Takes Offensive Against Health Care Repeal

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

This week, House Republicans will hold a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill is expected to pass the House, where the GOP holds a majority, but stall in the Democratic-controlled Senate. In the meantime, the symbolic vote is giving both Republicans and Democrats a pretext to publicly rehash their views on the legislation.

At AlterNet, Faiz Shakir and colleagues point out that repealing health care reform would cost the federal government an additional $320 billion over the next decade, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The authors also note that despite Republican campaign promises to “repeal and replace” the law, their bill contains no replacement plan. Health care reform protects Americans with preexisting conditions from some forms discrimination by insurers. At least half of all Americans under the age of 65 could be construed as having a preexisting condition. No wonder only 1 in 4 Americans support repeal, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released on Monday.

Perhaps that explains, as Paul Waldman reports at TAPPED, why the White House is vigorously defending health care reform. The Obama administration is making full use of the aforementioned statistics from The Department Health and Human Services on the percentage of Americans who have preexisting conditions:

As the House prepares to vote on the “Repeal the Puppy-Strangling Job-Vivisecting O-Commie-Care Act,” or whatever they’re now calling it, the White House and its allies actually seem to have their act together when it comes to fighting this war for public opinion. The latest is an analysis from the Department of Health and Human Services on just how many people have pre-existing conditions, and thus will be protected from denials of health insurance when the Affordable Care Act goes fully into effect in 2014

Republicans are fuming that Democrats are “politicizing” a policy debate by bringing up the uncomfortable fact that, if the GOP’s repeal plan became law, millions of people could lose their health insurance. As Waldman points out, the high incidence of preexisting conditions is an argument for a universal mandate. It’s impossible to insure people with known health problems at an affordable cost unless they share the risk with healthier policy-holders. Hence the need for a mandate.

Anti-choice at the end of life

In The Nation, Ann Neumann explains how anti-choice leaders fought to re-eliminate free end-of-life counseling for seniors under Medicare. The provision was taken out of the health care reform bill but briefly reinstated by Department of Health and Social Services before being rescinded again by HHS amid false allegations by anti-choice groups, including The Family Research Council, that the government was promulgating euthanasia for the elderly.

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The Kansas-based anti-choice group Operation Rescue is lashing out at the Iowa Board of Medicine for dismissing their complaint against Dr. Linda Haskell, Lynda Waddington reports in The Iowa Independent. Dr. Haskell attracted the ire of anti-choicers for using telemedicine to help doctors provide abortion care. The board investigated Operation Rescue’s allegations, which it cannot discuss or even acknowledge, but found no basis for sanctions against Haskell. Iowa medical authorities said they were still deliberating about the rules for telemedicine in general.

Salon retracts RFK vaccine story

Online news magazine Salon.com has retracted a 2005 article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. alleging a link between childhood vaccines and autism, Kristina Chew reports at Care2. The article leaned heavily on now discredited research by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. His research had been discredited for some time, but only recently did an investigative journalist reveal that Wakefield skewed his data as part of an elaborate scam to profit from a lawsuit against vaccine makers.

This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger This week, House Republicans will... more