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Autism Act Clears Senate After Last-Minute Deal

Posted by Nathan Charlan on Sep 28 2011

By Michelle Diament, Disability Scoop, September 27, 2011 The U.S. Senate approved an extension of the country’s primary autism legislation late Monday night after a group of Republicans agreed to lift a hold on the bill. The reauthorization of the Combating Autism Act now heads to President Barack Obama’s desk. White House officials say the president plans to sign the measure, which calls for $231 million for each of the next three years to fund everything from autism research to prevalence tracking, training, education, early identification and intervention programs. Despite broad bipartisan support for the autism bill, a group of Republican senators had placed a hold on it, arguing that Congress should not be directly setting the priorities of research dollars in favor of one...

Company succeeds at hiring adults with autism

Posted by Nathan Charlan on Sep 22 2011

By CARLA K. JOHNSON - The Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK – The software testers at Aspiritech are a collection of characters. Katie Levin talks nonstop. Brian Tozzo hates driving. Jamie Specht is bothered by bright lights, vacuum cleaners and the feel of carpeting agains...

NFL rookie takes disabled teen to dance

Posted by Nathan Charlan on May 26 2011

FOX Sports, Morgantown, VA, May 23, 2011 Chicago Bears rookie linebacker J.T. Thomas became the inspirational story of the lockout-dominated NFL offseason Monday, a few days after escorting a wheelchair-bound teen to her middle school dance. The former West Virginia standout last month met 14-year-old Joslyn Levell, who uses a wheelchair. During that meeting, she told him that all of the boys she had asked to the dance turned her down. Levell, who attends Suncrest Middle School in Morgantown — where the university is located — has spina bifida, a condition that prevents the spinal cord from developing properly. "I hugged her and signed a few things and we talked for awhile and she cried a bit," Thomas told NFL.com about meeting Levell. "I gave her a hug and told her everything would work itself out." Shortly after the meeting, Thomas' stepmother called the school and Levell's parents to make sure it would be OK for her hulking stepson to po...

The Neuroscience of the Gut: Strange but true: the brain is shaped by bacteria in the digestive tract

Posted by Nathan Charlan on May 03 2011

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Autism: Unlocking Mireya Salazar's world

Posted by Nathan Charlan on Apr 28 2011

By Eric GorskiThe Denver Post Posted: 04/24/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT Updated: 04/24/2011 03:12:51 PM MDT Her name is Mireya. She is 3 years and 3 months old. She has fine black hair, a thing for "Handy Manny" cartoons and one of the most prominent last names in Colorado. Many nights, Mireya Salazar will not fall asleep unless her feet are touching her mother and her head is touching her grandmother. It's part of an elaborate bedtime ritual in which she must place her pillow with the pink checkerboard and butterfly pattern just so, in the middle of the bed. She has other routines, other rules. Every door in the house must be closed. If they are not, she will slam them shut. She won't eat a broken Cheerio or pasta that is not white. She can seem more interested in a pink balloon than in her father, more fascinated with a blank space in the distance than in "Papa Ken" — her grandfather,...

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