Contents: Volume 3, Number 5
- TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY: Ben Kramer, 46 years old
and
autistic, stops the traffic as he swims around Manhattan to raise
awareness of the disorder
- Melissa used be at autism camp - now she's a counsellor
there!
- Mike Marino, the son of one of American
football's most famous stars, Dan Marino, declares: 'I won't say I have
been cured, because you can't really be cured of autism. But I have
overcome it.'
- RESEARCH UPDATE: Environment 'could be trigger'
- Big rise in Australian autism diagnosed
- Language-related brain abnormalities identified in
autism for first time
- Yale's amazing new gaze-tracking device
- L-Carnosine 'improves symptoms'
- Full update on the MMR vaccine debate: Persistent
measles virus 'could link MMR vaccine with autism'
- Gut disorders 'no more likely in autistic children'
- New funding for research into MMR safety
- MMR researcher 'is employed by vaccine's manufacturer'
- Dr Bernard Rimland: 'More research is needed
into possible link with autism'
- EDUCATION SPECIAL: 'Dramatic' results claimed for school
autism programme
- Model curriculum developed for autistic children
- Government ordered to pay for early intervention
treatment
- Lebanese Autism Society to benefit from painted cows
- Retarded teenager found guilty of manslaughter in
drowning case
- Mel B's 'ex' convicted of assaulting autistic boy
- Man charged with murdering son who had autism and
tuberous
sclerosis
- The tragedy of Helen Rogan and her autistic son,
Mark:
Tormented mother 'was let down by system'
- Probation for worker who covered up beating of autistic
men with belt buckle
- Us authorities seize bottles of dietary supplement used
to treat autism
- Teenager with Asperger's syndrome jailed for life for
stabbing best friend to death
- LOBBYING: Parents get together to put autism on the
radar screen
- AUTISM AND THE ARTS: Autistic kids at London's Royal
Opera House
- Kenyan festival screens unusual Danish movie, Her I
Naerheden (A Place Nearby), about a single mother's devotion to her
adult autistic son who is suspected of murdering a local girl
- Art auction for Polish children
- The views of Fred Volkmar, Ami Klin, Simon
Baron-Cohen,
Christopher Gillberg, Uta Frith, Patricia Howlin, Lorna Wing
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