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Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome -- Liane Holliday Willey describes her life with AS from the inside.
Autism and Asperger Syndrome, by Uta Frith -- the standard work on AS. Including Hans Asperger's original paper.
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Study of autistic savants: "Everyone has math prodigy capability"
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Everyone is a mathematical prodigy capable of lightning feats of calculation if they can dig far enough into the workings of their brain. This provocative claim by Australian scientists Prof Allan Snyder, winner of the 1997 International Australia Prize, and his colleague, Prof John Mitchell, in today's edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, follows their study of the astonishing ability of autistic savants of the kind popularised by the film Rain Man. |
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Herts County, UK battle over Boston Higashi school
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A Royston couple are fighting a legal battle against the county council to win their autistic daughter the right to attend the Boston Higashi school in America, renowed world-wide for its ability to teach autistic children based on Japanese Higashi, or Daily Life Therapy. Herts County Council is refusing to send her because the school is not accredited by the Government and would not allow education bosses to monitor her progress. |
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MMR fears raise rubella risk in the UK
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Parents who spurn the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could be responsible for the re-emergence of a disease that causes severe birth defects, reports the BBC. Public health specialists fear that media reports of side effects, including autism, associated with the MMR jab have made parents reluctant to get their children vaccinated - meaning the infection is more widely present in the community. Evidence published in The Lancet medical journal suggests that the combined jab may cause autism and Crohn's disease. |
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Jackson, Michigan: new autistic classroom
The Hunt School in Jackson, Michigan, USA is spending $125,000 to make its locker rooms over into a classroom for autistic students.
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