This is a very interesting post on exactly what the title says - the communication needs of autistic children. Very basic information, but good and relevant. Many parents and therapists focus on the child needing to communicate verbally, but this post gets across how important it is for them just to be able to communicate and i

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Actress Jenny McCarthy's five-year old son Evan is autistic and recently Jenny has been quite vocal about the alternative "autism treatments," that may lead to a cure for autism. Of course there is a wide autism spectrum and it falls under the "unknown" and there are not many conventional treatments as of yet. What may w

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More people are becoming aware of Autism these days and although no-one likes to think that their child may have something wrong with them, the number of children diagnosed with Autism seems to have increased over recent years. It is because of the increase in awareness of the disorder that people are learning more about the sy

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The number of children diagnosed with Autism has increased significantly over recent years. Whether this is due to the fact that there is more awareness of the disorder leading to more diagnosis or whether it is due to other environmental factors that is actually increasing the number of children having the disorder, whatever

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It is a tough job being parents of autistic children and sometimes it can be hard to just let your child be a kid. It is easy to get wrapped up in everything to do with your child’s treatment that you can sometimes forget to let them have some fun. It is natural for a parent to just want to keep their child safe and with a spec

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Keith Kennedy ,autistic man who disappeared a week ago from a camp for the disabled and who relies on medication after a kidney transplant was found alive in the woods. It is a happy ending to a long search for this Autistic man.

He was flown to the University of Minnesota hospital in the Twin Cities. He lives in Shoreview,

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