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UPDATE: Missing autistic boy found safe 3 miles from home
WILLISBURG, Ky. (AP) — Searchers in central Kentucky have found a 7-year-old autistic boy who was missing for two days and say he is safe. Kentucky State Police say a ground search team found Randall Leon Chesser conscious around 2:45 p.m. EDT...Tags: Health, Behavioral Conditions
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Ore. woman accused of molesting autistic son gets probation
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A Bend woman has been sentenced to a decade of probation after she was accused of molesting her 8-year-old autistic son and streaming the act online to a Michigan man who posed as a psychologist. The case is one of at least...Tags: Health, Abusive Behavior, Prosecution, Behavioral Conditions, Punishment
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Dad of autistic man in Pa. van death files suit
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The father of a severely autistic man who died after being left alone in a hot van last year is suing a suburban Philadelphia care facility. The Philadelphia Daily News reports William Nevins filed a federal lawsuit last week...Tags: Health, Oceanside (Hempstead, New York), Behavioral Conditions, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials
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California judge rules in favor of autistic boy and dog
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a 7-year-old autistic boy must be allowed to bring his service dog with him to his Orange County elementary school. The Los Angeles Times says Judge Andrew Guilford granted a preliminary...Tags: Health, Behavioral Conditions, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Orange County (California)
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Charges settled in prank-call shock therapy case
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The founder of a Massachusetts special-needs school agreed to resign Wednesday, settling charges that he interfered with the investigation of shock therapy administered to two teenagers on the orders of a prank caller posing...Tags: Health, Human Interest, Israel, Behavioral Conditions, Marth Coakley
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For those with autism, documentary offers new hope
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A new documentary about autism is making unlikely stars out of two Vermont men who don't speak much but still have a lot to say. "Wretches and Jabberers," premieres Friday in New York City and then in AMC Theatres nationally...Tags: Health, Behavioral Conditions, Vermont, Movies, Documentary (genre)
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Mildly autistic, 12-year-old takes college physics
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 12-year-old boy with mild autism is making quite an impression on his classmates, standing out among fellow students in a calculus-based physics class at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Jacob Barnett says...Tags: Health, Education, Purdue University, Behavioral Conditions, Science and Technology
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Kaspar the friendly robot helps autistic kids
STEVENAGE, England (AP) — Eden Sawczenko used to recoil when other little girls held her hand and turned stiff when they hugged her. This year, the 4-year-old autistic girl began playing with a robot that teaches about emotions and physical...Tags: Health, Education, Human Interest, Behavioral Conditions, Science and Technology
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Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism risk
CHICAGO (AP) — Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children. Children born less than two years after their siblings were...Tags: Health, Preventative Medicine, Behavioral Conditions, Science and Technology, Science
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Journal: Study linking vaccine to autism was fraud
LONDON (AP) — A new report finds that the first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved. The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues had already been widely...Tags: Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Newspaper and Magazine, Crimes, Preventative Medicine
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South Bend reacts to international debate about autism and vaccines
A study that suggested autism could be caused by childhood vaccines is now being called a fraud.
The British Medical Journal is accusing the report's author of falsifying data and serious professional misconduct.
The original study, based on 12...Tags: Health, Human Interest, Pharmaceuticals, Preventative Medicine, Behavioral Conditions
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U.S. court rules against parents in vaccine case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a federal law bars lawsuits against drug makers over serious side effects from childhood vaccines By a 6-2 vote Tuesday, the court ruled against the parents of a child who sued the drug...Tags: Health, Antonin Scalia, U.S. Department of Justice, Pennsylvania, Sonia Sotomayor
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