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The parents of a home-schooled Falmouth boy with a form of autism, who has been banned from a public school playground, say they still hope their son will be allowed back at the playground when school opens in less than two weeks. Gayle Fitzpatrick and Charles Rankowski went before Judge Thomas Humphrey on Friday in York County Superior Court seeking an injunction to allow their son, Jan Rankowski, 9, to use the Plummer-Motz School playground...

As the number of children with autism in California continues to multiply, so too are the questions about what has caused the rise. Meantime, some health and education experts question the validity of the statistics that point to the increase in caseload. One in every 250 children in the state is autistic and from 1998 to 2002, the population of autistic children served by the state doubled. "It's significantly higher than we ever thought...

Alex and I had an idea that our Wrongplanet alien should have a friend, now he has got one. Shes cute too! We are having a competiton, open to all our members, to find names for our two alien friends. Be as creative as you like, the best two names will be picked and used for the aliens. You can enter as many times as you like with your ideas. Just send an email to [email protected] with your entry ideas and they will be considered.

Jennifer Edge has opened up a new store unlike any other in Monroe -- Primitive Soul Art Studio. The store is the Oregon native's brainchild created with the intention of bringing healing through art to all ages in the area. Edge is an art therapist and artist, having worked with various populations, including developmentally disabled individuals, children in schools, including Monroe's Alternative Charter School, children from violent...

Burglars who stole the computer speech machine of a 12-year-old autistic boy who cannot speak have “taken away his voice”, his mother said today. The £1,800 device enabled Elliot Walters for the first time in his life to put his thoughts into words and take part in school lessons. But just a week after he was given the Chat PC machine, thieves broke into his home in Plymouth, Devon, and stole it along with other valuables. Elliot’s...

Hi,
Your site is great! I'm the mom of an Aspie in North Carolina, and he has become very solitary. He says he wants to make friends, but doesn't really have a way of connecting with anyone here who shares his interests and understands him. So, I just started a Yahoo group for Aspie youth, specifically designed to help them find friends in their area, pen pals or Internet buddies. The site has only been online for a week, but I'm getting...

'Mind as a dynamical system: Implications for Autism' provides a conceptual
model of Autism that really makes sense.
www.autismandcomputing.org.uk/mind.htm

Today, a new study published provides biological evidence for for that theory !!!
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=11412


The authors of Mind as a dynamical system will publish an article in the september/oktober edition of 'Autism' (SAGE with the NAS, London)...

The New York Times reports

In writing his best-selling first novel, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," Mark Haddon did not set out to become a spokesman for people with Asperger syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism characterized by obsessive behavior, brilliance in some areas and social ineptitude.

The condition is not even mentioned by name in the book, but it is at the heart of the story.

The New Zealand Herald reports:

Controversial implied claims of therapeutic benefits to people drinking A2 milk are to be canvassed tomorrow by food safety authorities.

The implied claims have included that A2 will not trigger some forms of heart disease, autism, schizophrenia and diabetes.