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News.com.au - POLICE are concerned for the health of a 14-year-old boy, suffering from autism and mild cerebral palsy, who has been missing since yesterday in Tasmania's south. Ashley Jay Williams was last seen in the Claremont area about 6pm yesterday, Tasmania ...

North West Evening Mail - For around five years Lyn has worked closely with the eight-year-old girl, who has a form of autism and attends Walney’s George Haswell School. In that time the families have grown close and Cheryl wanted to give Lyn a floral pat on the back for ...

CNEWS - NATIONAL BUREAU -- The federal government is facing criticism from autism support groups, frustrated parents and senators after rebuffing their calls to implement a national strategy to cope with the disorder. The Conservative government's position ...

Canada Free Press - One huge study after another has cleared thimersorosal as a cause of child developmental disorders, and specifically autism, but there is a powerful lobby that couldn’t care less. Thimerosal, used in vaccines since the 1930s but phased out in 2001 ...

News-Democrat - Hampton, stating she "may be suffering from a mental defect, including Asperger Syndrome/autism or disability causing her not to fully understand and be able to communicate and comprehend the charges and the nature of the charges against her ..." As ...

Boston Globe - Goldfarb played Louise, an adult with autism, in a production of Snodgrass's play "Haiku" last February at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, and Snodgrass says she was impressed. "So much of what happens to Louise is internal," Snodgrass says, "yet Kippy ...

Forbes - SAN DIEGO, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The San Diego County Chapter of the Autism Society of America (SDASA), together with TACA and the Autism Society of America, are offering information and assistance resources to anyone affected by an ...

Baltimore Sun - Actress and comedian Jenny McCarthy was working on her latest book one Sunday when her 4-year-old son wanted to talk. He was so chatty -- and distracting -- that McCarthy finally said, "Evan, can you please just stop talking for a whole five minutes ...

Newsday - Explosive growth in the number of Long Island students diagnosed with autism and other neurological disorders is pitting parents who seek greater help for their children against school officials struggling to contain special-education costs. Across ...

St. Petersburg Times - This includes all types of brain disorders, including, but not limited to OCD, depression, autism, bi-polar, schizophrenia and multiple personalities. Daytime meetings are from 3 to 5 p.m. the first and third Monday of each month at the Regency Park ...