... the drinks, honey? DUARTE GERALDINO: Omar and Damaris Said are foster parents, licensed by Florida to care for special-needs children. OMAR SAID: They have autism, bipolar, intellectual disability. DAMARIS SAID: Some of them have all three. A lot of times, the children who have these behaviors are in institutions ...
... feel like this was something that was a long time coming, that these are dangerous chemicals that are unregulated and could explain things like, oh, autism or cancer. We don't know if they do, but the question is, no one is investigating. Now the EPA can investigate. So that ...
... and that expense. If anybody tells you that they're sailing through, they're lying. BRIAN BRUNJES, Butcher: Everybody struggles. I have a child with autism. He was diagnosed 20 years ago. My wife had to stop working. Became a one-income family. We accumulated a lot of outside expenses ...
... to decide whether their kids can be vaccinated. Many parents worry that vaccines cause illness and permanent disabilities, she said, although links between vaccines and autism have been discredited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And, Fisher said, eliminating exemptions would mean that unvaccinated children in many states ...
... to Harvard looking to scale and fine-tune a program to get businesses to hire more more "neurodiverse" employees -- that is, people with Asperger's, autism, dyslexia, post-traumatic stress disorder, Tourette's -- people whose brains are "wired differently," she says. The following conversation has been edited for clarity and ...
... we thought up until then -- he was 12 at the time -- that we thought were uncomfortable to him, but we just learned, because of the autism, was actually unnatural to him. And I had to step up and spend more time with him. I had spent a lot of time ...
A medical procedure used to diagnose damage from brain injuries may also help some autistic patients make connections and understand emotions they’ve never experienced. Author John Robison underwent that experimental therapy, detailed in a new memoir, “Switched On.” Hari Sreenivasan talks with Robison about his experience.
Childhood trauma such as abuse, neighborhood violence or the death of a parent has been found to lead to dire health and social problems later in life. How can communities intervene to spare future generations the same pain and illness? Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports in collaboration with Kaiser Health News on how the city...
Compton student Kimberly Cervantes said that poetry helped her deal with trauma and the derision she faced at school for being bisexual.
Public schools in Los Angeles have experienced rapid change in the last decade, and graduation rates for the city’s 80,000 special needs students have nearly doubled since 2003. But greater transitions lie ahead: the district plans to transfer these students from special education centers to neighborhood schools. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Education Week reports.
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