VOLUME 4 NUMBER 6, 2006

Contents: Volume 4, Number 6

• Tribute to BERNARD RIMLAND:   DONNA WILLIAMS, the celebrated Australian author, herself autistic, pays tribute to the man largely responsible for debunking the terribly damaging 'refrigerator mother' theory, who died on November 21, 2006.
• AUTISM IN ASIA

India: Interview with MERRY BARUA, director of the Delhi-based Action   for Autism, after the opening of the National Centre for Autism and a film star's autistic son is prevented from boarding a plane 
China:  An expert there says treatment for autism is 'inadequate'

• Employment for adults with autism
• Sensory issues in autism
• French scientists identify genetic mutations in autistic children - we talk to the study’s lead author
• President Bush signs Combatting Autism Act - what it might mean for autistic individuals in the United States
• 'No benefit from vitamin B12 injections' - new study
• US Food and Drug Administration approves use of Risperdal (risperidone)  for the treatment of irritability in autism - we talk to Dr ROBERTO CANITANO, an expert on pharmacological treatments for autism
• Oxytocin 'may have positive effect on adults with autism'
• Amygdala 'becomes abnormally small in the most severe forms of autism'
• Surprising new water finding suggests delay in neuronal development in  children with autism - a study which challenges a previously held theory that brain abnormalities characteristic of autism were due to faster development
• Expert challenges notion that children with autism are often mentally  
  retarded
• Autistic man dies after being restrained by police – we talk to DENNIS DEBBAUDT
• ‘We were forced to shower school staff with jewellery to get care for our autistic son’
• Disciplinary charges filed over chelation death of autistic boy
• Five-year-old boy with autism escapes to catch train
• Puppy helps autistic boy to speak

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