Autism News

After working hard for a few days (and charging an extra 5 dollars in a period of 30 minutes to my cell phone by using the WAP service for such a long interval), I am proud to announce WrongPlanet Wireless. If you have a WAP enabled cell phone, the most recent news items and forum threads will be available in the palm of your hand, no matter how far away you go from your computer. In addition, I've gotten some people to test out the JmIRC...

I am proud to announce the addition of several new WrongPlanet.net features and enhancements. First of all, we have added a site statistics page which contains live automatically updated statistics concerning the traffic to the site. Second of all, we have added a Relationships item to the menu which links to the singles thread in the forums (Hopefully this will make it easier for more aspies to meet each other. I already know of at least 3...

NBC's Today show is preparing a 10-part series that will run the week of February 21 airing at 8:10 AM and 9:10 AM. The series will look at autism from a variety of angles, with segments exploring topics such as etiology, diagnosis, treatment, educational programs, affect on siblings, and how to be an advocate for your autistic child.

WrongPlanet.net has recently been growing extremely quickly. At least 5 members have been signing up each day in the last week, and the chatroom is usually active now. I'm really happy with the tightly knit community that we've become. We'd like to know why you're a member at WrongPlanet. What aspect of the site is your favorite?

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California's mysterious explosion of autism cases worsened in 2004, disappointing researchers who had hoped the number of new diagnoses would level off as they searched for an explanation for the neurological disorder.

Chat Night last week was very well attended again, it's been good to see so many of you! It's Saturday, so it's that time again starting at 4pm EST, come and say hello. See you there - click to join us!

Dunc

The number of children diagnosed with some form of autism has been skyrocketing. Several drugs are helpful in treating behavioral symptoms that come with the disorders. Dr. Dean Edell reports on a drug-free treatment that changes lives.

Chat Night yesterday was very well attended again, it's been good to see so many of you! The chat applet has been improved also, so you are automatically logged in as your nick and has some new features. Click here to try it out!

Dunc

I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce the new WrongPlanet tips section. Periodically, we will post new tips with the intent of helping you experience all that our great site has to offer. If you want to view an archive of tips (there currently aren't any tips), go to the archive option in the main menu. This will also have archives of any story ever put on the front page.

When parents William and Bobbie Gallagher pressed government officials to investigate why their children and so many others here are autistic, they suggested it might be worth checking into pollution and environmental factors.