Vol. 21 Summer 2005 Newborn Screening in the 21st Century From the Editors and Authors: Since our last Update on Newborn Screening in 1998‚ there has been significant expansion of newborn screening programs in various regions of the country‚ mostly to include metabolic disorders identifiable by tandem mass spectrometry. States in our region are just now starting to expand their programs. The Summer 2005 Genetic Drift provides an update on newborn dried blood spot screening (NBS). Specifically
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child cannot do.” ~Dr. Temple Grandin. Autism doesn’t have to be a bad thing if you focus on the bad thing you will miss a lot of great things. Autism is a neurological disease that you get at birth‚ but sometimes you don’t see signs until later years. The ways you can help with autism are figuring out the signs to tell if your child has autism‚ what causes autism; knowing that autism is common‚ and what kinds of autisms there are. There are many signs of autism one being behavioral diffencences.
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and treatment to help understand how autism will be a part of your family and your everyday life. Autism is a developmental disorder that is increasing among children. Families need to be aware of the facts and treatments available for this disorder. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that affects social and communication skills in the brain (American Psychological Association). In the United States‚ the children affected by autism are 1 in 88 children and one in every 54
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Childhood Disorders Autism and Children Abnormal Psychology Professor Bruce Cameron July 22‚ 2007 Abstract: Autism is a brain development disorder that is found in children usually before the age of three. Autism affects children and their “social interactions‚ impaired communication‚ and restricted and repetitive behavior.” (www.wikipedia.org) The number of children that have been diagnosed with autism is dramatically increasing. Boys are four times more likely than girls to be
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The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003) features a 15-year-old boy with autism. The book is a well-written novel from the perspective of Christopher‚ a boy with Asperger’s syndrome. Christopher faces many symptoms a person with autism could face such as having a savant skill‚ as well as having limited social skills‚ as he does not like interacting with people. Christopher displays various symptoms such as being unable to read facial expressions‚ he does
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disabilities are Autism Speaks and The Edge Foundation. Autism Speaks is dedicated to help students with autism and strives to advocate for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. The Edge Foundation focus on ADHD students and provides them multiple ways of help. The following are the detailed evaluation of the two websites. Web#1: www.autismspeaks.org I. Credibility Autism Speaks was founded in February 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright‚ grandparents of a child with autism. Their
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Group 2 Manage Workforce Planning Autism Victoria – Workforce Plan By James Watts‚ Jessica Lim‚ Luke Farrugia and Kair Aueil For Jan Kelly 06/04/2012 Table of Contents 1. The Necessity of Workforce Planning 3 2. Overview of organisation 3 2.1. Autism Victoria’s services 3 3. Strategy 3 3.1. Autism Victoria’s Vision 3 3.2. Autism Victoria’s Values 3 3.3. Autism Victoria’s Mission 4 3.4. Autism Victoria’s Strategic Priorities 4 3.5. SWOT Analysis 4 4
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547 – Marie Jevon 1. Understand how the different and evolving theories about autism reflect the complexity of autistic spectrum conditions Since it first identified as a distinct disorder by Leo Kanner (1943)‚ autism studies continued in order to explain its causes. Many theories and clinical studies evolved. However‚ none of them seems to be conclusive. Although it was interchangeably considered as part of schizophrenia‚ recently it is defined as a distinct disorder that has its own characteristics
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readers of the increase in cases of Autism in southern California. This article shows a table of the varying degrees of Autism – Autistic disorder‚ Asperger’s syndrome‚ and Pervasive Developmental Disorder – and some of the characteristics of each “branch.” The link “More about Autism” brings up information about some early warning signs of Autism‚ various treatment methods‚ and a few statistics about the prevalence of Autism. There are pictures of a child with Autism along with his mother‚ and they
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past years there has been a great deal of attention rendered to Autism. To some this is a fairly novel diagnosis but to others such as Leo Kanner (1943) this disorder has been around for quiet some time. The word autism comes from the Greek word “autos” which means self. Many people will usually describe a child with autism as one that likes to “keep to himself” Eugene Bleuler‚ a Swiss psychiatrist was the first to use the term Autism in 1911‚ who used it this term to refer to one group of symptoms
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