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    Autism Autism Spectrum Disorder is a mental disorder that is usually detected during the stages of early childhood. The disorder affects many different functions of the brain. It occurs in one of every five hundred births. Autism causes problems with the speech‚ language‚ social interaction‚ intelligence‚ and the compulsive behavior of a person. The primary focus of this paper is to give a general definition and description of autism. There are several different types of autism that will be introduced

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    People with autism were treated differently and handled differently back in the 1930’s than what we see today. Medical professions had different types of treatments and have more signs to tell whether or not they have autism. Disabilities were just starting to be recognized in the 1930’s‚ and the Asperger’s syndrome and autism are classified as the same diagnosis. Autism is a mental state that can be identified early is a person’s childhood. It could last life long‚ or it could be helped by a matter

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    Clinic‚ Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorders. Its symptoms include lack of communication‚ the inability to use language to interact‚ and certain repetitive behaviors. Jeffrey S. Gerber and Paul A. Offit in their work “Vaccines and Autism” studied whether autism can be caused by MMR vaccines‚ thimerosal preservative‚ or due to multiple vaccines. The researchers created three different hypothesis and collected its data from different countries worldwide. They concluded in their study that autism disorder

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    Bernard Rimland‚ who overturned conventional theories about the origin of autism in the 1960s and later forced scientists and policymakers to consider alternative causes and treatments‚ died last Tuesday in El Cajon‚ Calif.‚ near his home in San Diego. He was 78. The cause was complications of prostate cancer‚ a family spokeswoman said. Dr. Rimland’s interest in autism‚ the puzzling social-skills disorder‚ and his work on behalf of families touched by it grew out of his intuition as an experimental

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    Autism or Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are both general terms for a group of complex disorder of brain development. Genome is the genetics material of an organism. It includes DNA or RNA both genes and the non-protein-coding information of the DNA or RNA. Autism specturm disorder (ASD) is a group of developmental disabilities that can cause social‚ communicational and behavioral challenges. Scientists and Committees continue to search for factor that cause children at risk for ASD and possible

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    Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders STATE OF THE EVIDENC E October 2009 Report of the Children‟s Services Evidence-Based Practice Advisory Committee A C OLLABORATION OF THE M AINE D EPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES & THE MAINE D EPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders STATE OF THE EVIDENC E Report of the Children’s Services Evidence -Based Practice Advisory Committee A Collaboration of THE MAINE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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    Autism Spectrum Disorders Autism spectrum disorders are very complex neurological disorders that have baffled experts over the years. These have brought numerous questions on the actual causes but there have not been many answers. Pervasive developmental disorders are how Autism spectrums are classified and it includes Autism‚ Asperger syndrome‚ Rett syndrome‚ and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. Each of these disorders has similarities in the individual’s lack of communication‚ socialization

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    Autism: Educational Social Effects As a student living with no impairing physical or mental disability‚ it is difficult to imagine life any other way. On the other hand‚ when taking the time to contemplate what people with disabilities‚ such as Autism have to cope with‚ I realize just how much I take for granted in every day life; such as options to any class‚ learning at a normal pace‚ and peer interactions‚ to name a few. Autism not only affects people physically‚ but socially as well‚ ensuing

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    Page:1 Autism is a big life changing in people’s lives. When they are born with autism they will be like that forever. They have so many people that are famous that have autism. They have done big things in their lives‚ like Albert Einstein‚ Tim Burton‚ and etc. Autism awareness color is blue. Blue is the color to say that they are encouraged in life to succeed in what they want to do‚ and plan ahead to be good in the future. They have a foundation called Autism Speak to help support

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    Causes of Autism Nowadays‚ the exactly cause of autism still is unknown. Yet‚ based on the research‚ those factors of autism include genetic‚ some category of infection and the problem appear at birth. Recently research report show that the conditions for autism susceptibility may from parents to children. For some children‚ environmental factors might also one of the factors of autism. Findings of autism have discovered that autism will influence the early stage of brain growth or in the womb

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