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• Autism Numbers

  Published: August 26, 2007, 3:52 am

  Tags: Autism Crisis, Autism Disorder, Autism Prevalence

  Autism by the numbers Newsday offers a reality based perspective on the autism crisis facing families and governments in the United States today and the need to establish regional autism prevalence in order to allocate resources appropriately. The opinion article points to the lack of funding and implementation of the US Combating Autism Act

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• Autism Numbers

  Published: August 26, 2007, 4:25 am

  Tags: Autism Crisis, Autism Disorder, Autism Prevalence

  Autism by the numbers Newsday offers a reality based perspective on the autism crisis facing families and governments in the United States today and the need to establish regional autism prevalence in order to allocate resources appropriately. The opinion article points to the lack of funding and implementation of the US Combating Autism Act ,

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• Canadian Autism Prevalence Rates Different Than US Rates?

  Published: December 21, 2007, 4:45 am

  Tags: Cihr, Stephen Harper, Autism Crisis, Autism Disorders, Autism Prevalence, Autism Awareness, Cdc

  CDC, publicly revised its autism estimated prevalence rate from 1 in 166 Americans to 1 in 150. In Canada the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the CIHR, web site indicates on its autism page, Health Research: Key to improving outcomes for children with autism, that "Autism, or more appropriately autism spectrum disorders (ASDs),

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• Autism Speaks Tackles Autism Crisis in South Florida Mar 24 - 28

  Published: January 5, 2008, 7:34 pm

  Tags: Bob Wright, Autism Crisis, Melania Trump, Autism Research, Autism Disorders, Suzanne Wright, Donald Trump, Autism Awareness, Autism Speaks, Autism, Autism Every Day

  The money we raise will help Autism Speaks fund autism research and support community organizations here in South Florida and across the United States that provide critical services to children and adults with autism. The ability of Autism Speaks to generate public awareness of autism, raise funds for autism research is amazing. And now Autism

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• Autism Waiting Lists In Alberta

  Published: January 28, 2008, 6:10 am

  Tags: Autism Crisis, Autism Diagnosis, Assessment, Autism Disorders, Alberta, Aba, Aap

  who can diagnose autism disorders. I was informed though that Psychologists can also make the initial autism diagnosis.New Brunswick, Alberta, or anywhere else in Canada, it would seem that an important step in addressing the autism crisis, a crisis which is very real for families of children with autism, is to take steps to

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• Autism Rising in Alabama

  Published: February 2, 2008, 3:19 am

  Tags: Autism Rising, Autism Crisis, Alabama, Alabama Autism Task Force, Autism Disorders, Dsm Iv

  for the nearly tripling of autism diagnoses amongst Alabama school children between 2000 and 2006.Nor does the "parents pushing for autism diagnoses to obtain services for their children" argument, provide any assistance in explaining the Alabama increases between 2000 and 2006. The recent Alabama autism task force report recently reported

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• Autism Crisis In Scotland - Invisible Autistic Adults

  Published: February 24, 2008, 2:59 am

  Tags: Sunday Herald, Scotland, Autism Crisis, Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, Autistic Adults, Autism Disorders, Autism Treatment Trust, National Autistic Society, Autism

  Scotland Lacks Autism Services I commented on an article on healthcarerepublic on July 6, 2007 and the lack of services for people with autism in Scotland. That article, Call to find autism early in Scotland, focused on guidelines published by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) calling on doctors to look for signs of autism

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• Autism Hero Stefan Marinoiu's Hunger Strike For Autism Now

  Published: May 9, 2008, 5:55 am

  Tags: Autism Crisis, Tony Clement, Stefan Marinoiu, Autism Advocacy, Autism

  the recent Medicare for Autism Campaign NOW! visit to Toronto and Oakville, goes much further. Stefan has put it all on the line advocating for autism. And he is doing it again, right now. Stefan began a hunger strike for autism on May 5 outside Queen's Park in Toronto.This winter Stefan walked for 11 days, over more than 200 miles, from

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• Invisible Autistics: The Severely Autistic

  Published: June 11, 2008, 6:28 am

  Tags: Abc News, Faces Of Autism, Alleged Autism Rights Movement, Autistic Disorder, Severe Autism, Cnn, New York Magazine, Autism, Crisis In Caring

  about persons with severe autism deficits. They organize petitions to harass institutions which use negative images of autism as Dr. Koplewicz and the "Ransom Notes" campaign found out. The families who courageously told the truth about the challenges faced by their autistic children in the Autism Every Day video have been vilified by the

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• The Adult Autism Crisis

  Published: July 2, 2008, 5:25 am

  Tags: Autism Crisis, Adult Residential Care, Newsweek, New Brunswick, Cnn, Dr Gupta, Autism

  on the very real adult autism residential care crisis which exists in the United States (and in Canada). Newsweek is unable to provide any real solutions but hopefully the article will help focus the public discussion of autism on the very serious crisis confronting adults with autism disorders who can not care for themselves. Not

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