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SAP looks to recruit people with autism as programmers
ReutersFRANKFURT (Reuters) - German software company SAP is looking to recruit people with autism as programmers and product testers, drawing on skills that can include a close attention to detail and an ability to solve complex problems. SAP has asked start-up...Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Microsoft Corporation, Germany, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Boca, West Boca Memorial Day events salute vets
Add three concerts, a ballet performance and a new party for an autism group to the traditional Memorial Day salutes to veterans in the city and county. Organizers are counting on families sticking around for the long weekend instead of getting out of...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Autism, Music, Entertainment, Human Interest
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Asperger's does not make a murderer
Regarding your article about the teen girl accused of plotting her father's murder with her boyfriend ("Troubled child on a dark path," May 19), I found the article filled with misleading information and misinformation. First, the article tells us she...
Tags: Health, Autism, Family, Mental Health, Mental Illness
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Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team
Scott Beck By John P. Huston,Tribune reporter Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me...
Tags: Technology, University of Chicago, Music, Harvard University, Teaching and Learning
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: Health, Autism, Social Issues, ADHD, Environmental Pollution
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Up to 1 in 5 children suffer from mental disorder -CDC
ReutersBy Atossa Araxia Abrahamian NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number of kids diagnosed with one has been rising for more than a decade, according to a report released...Tags: Autism, Family, Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diabetes
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Lawuits say school closings unfair,discriminate against blacks
Tribune reporterThe Chicago Teachers Union's decision to go to court to try to stop the city from closing 53 elementary schools, while not unexpected, makes clear that the Board of Education's vote on the proposal next week will not put an end to the controversy. The...Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, University of Chicago, Justice System, Autism, Separation of Church and State
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Speaker identifies with student athletes recognized at True Grit Awards
will.robinson@herald-mail.comSt. Maria Goretti outdoor track and cross country coach Mike Spinnler took the podium at Tuesday’s 32nd True Grit Awards banquet like a minister in front of his congregation. The keynote speaker of the awards spoke of 2011 keynote speaker Susan...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Basketball, Teaching and Learning, Soccer, Sports
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Girl charged in father's death struggled with mental health
Morgan Lane Arnold, an emotionally frail 14-year-old freshman, navigated the hallways of her Howard County high school each day filled with anxiety, unable because of a learning disorder to decipher the social cues, jokes and emotions of her peers. Her...
Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Witnesses, Autism, Science and Technology, Entertainment
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READER SUBMITTED: New York Writers Studio Comes To Connecticut: Hill-Stead Museum Offers Teacher Workshop
FarmingtonFrom June 24 through June 26, during Hill-Stead's Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz will lead a three-day introduction to his Writers Studio Method for teachers and writers. This innovative program utilizes the...Tags: Festive Events, Barack Obama, Journalism, Poetry, Columbia University
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READER SUBMITTED: Intensive Education Academy Represented At CT Association Of Nonprofits At Capitol
West HartfordJill O'Donnell, head of school and director of education, and Sally McClure, development director at the Intensive Education Academy, Inc., located at 840 North Main St., West Hartford, represented the school at the Connecticut Association of Nonprofits...Tags: Arts and Culture, Students, Autism, Social Sciences, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Billings parent claims teacher violated state testing protocol
mpettit@kspr.comMissouri education officials are investigating one Ozarks high school after a parent accuses them of violating state testing protocols. When he's in the dugout, Justin Powers feels like he's one of the guys, which is refreshing for him. Normally, he...Tags: Schools, High Schools
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