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Tuesday on the NewsHour, Republican Sen. Susan Collins steps up to say she will not vote for Donald Trump. Also: Turkey and Russia meet amid strained relations with the U.S., giving adults with autism the tools to build a life, an assistant principal lives a day in the life ...
... feeling that she'll be abandoning her family responsibilities when she goes away to college. She helps take care of her older sister, who has autism. She makes sure her baby sister is dressed and her younger brother gets off to school. Who will do those things when she goes ...
... 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 ...
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...
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