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Autism News from Yahoo News
- - Bill and Beth Sansone have organized a golf tournament in the name of their 4-year-old daughter, Katherine, who was diagnosed with autism as an infant.
- - TORONTO - Eye tracker technology used to study two groups of babies - either at high or low risk of developing autism - shows differences between the groups at nine months of age, researchers said Thursday.
- - ORADELL — The Board of Education voted down a proposal this week to start a program for preschoolers with autism. Board members said they were not satisfied that the issue had been fully researched.
- - The Pensacola Pelicans are pleased to announce that on Monday, May 19, all tickets purchased at the game will go directly to the Autism Society for Autism Awareness Night.
- - NuU Lend Their Voice to Autism Speaks at Walk Now for Autism – Chicago, Sunday, May 18 [PR.com - May 17, 2008]
- - Test could be used as a fast, objective screening tool to identify babies that may develop autism
- - GOSHEN – Parents of children with autism told a state Assembly hearing on the condition that they want and need more support. The Republican lawmakers came to the Orange County Seat in Goshen to have a dialog with the families, said Assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun of Blooming Grove.
- - LAKE VILLA – Alicia Jonker believes in a special cause. That cause is helping those affected by autism.
- - Parents who claim childhood vaccines cause autism take their case to court.
- - After 11-year-old Evan Henry drowned in 2000, his parents established an annual road race that raises money for the Evan Henry Foundation for Autism.
Asperger Syndrome News from Yahoo News
- - James City County police officers used a Taser gun on a 24-year-old autistic Williamsburg man Thursday after police said he became unruly with employees at Wilson's Leather at the Prime Outlets-Williamsburg shopping mall.
- - All her life, Marie Brenner struggled to understand her older brother, Carl. They had very little in common: Carl was a one-time lawyer turned apple farmer in Washington State; Marie was an investigative journalist in New York City, espousing every cultural and political position Carl professed to hate.
- - Alexander Romanchuk, 16, whose father said he suffers from Asperger syndrome, was charged with attempt to commit murder Tuesday night after police said he fired two shots from an AK-47-type rifle near a group of men playing basketball behind a church in Brooklyn.
- - Voters will be asked if they want to be taxed directly to support the library.
- - A 16-year-old boy with Asperger syndrome was charged with attempted murder Wednesday after police said he fired his father's assault rifle near a group of young men playing basketball behind a church in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
- - James City County police officers used a taser gun on a 24-year-old autistic Williamsburg man Thursday after police said he became unruly with employees at Wilsons Leather at the Prime Outlets-Williamsburg shopping mall.
- - There's a mental disorder that could be affecting your child, and you may not even know it.
- - BROOKYLN, Conn. - A 16-year-old boy who a relative says has Asperger syndrome is accused of firing an AK-47 assault rifle at several people playing basketball Tuesday evening behind the Our Lady of La Salette Church, 25 Providence Road.
- - Thousands of students will don their caps and gowns for a coveted college degree.
- - On the book tour for "A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father," Augusten Burroughs is ready for the skeptics.
