... two young men -- a poet and a Harvard graduate student -- who, despite academic struggles, achieved stunning success. But first, a 101. Contrary to popular belief, autism isn't a learning disability. Neither is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mental illness, or intellectual disability. Here to walk us through the top ...
... for Music National Service: It's definitely been shown that music can make a positive impact on people suffering from early-onset dementia, kids with autism, with veterans who are coming back and trying to learn to walk without a limb. SPENCER MICHELS: Music therapy professor Eric Waldon, who teaches ...
... Mich., Markel's been traveling the world with you -- through this year's Oscar-nominated films -- to diagnose the portrayals of brain injury in Hawaii, autism in New York, dementia on Downing Street ... even post-traumatic stress in cartoon Paris. Find his medical chart for this year's top films ...
... Choice of Schools on PBS. See more from PBS NEWSHOUR. And a charter school in New York City started to teach children and teens with autism: Watch Autism Now: Demand for Educational Resources for Children Outstrips Supply on PBS. See more from PBS NEWSHOUR. Browse more education-related stories, and ...
... open to the kinds of denials" of coverage "that Congress said should not happen." Some insurers, for example, have refused to provide certain types of autism treatment because they have deemed them educational in nature rather than medical. Another outside reviewer, Gail Wilensky, senior fellow at Project HOPE and former ...
... That's almost the entire size of the current national debt over - between now and 2050. When you do brain science, you're also doing autism, Parkinson's, mental health, systems of learning. It's an enormous opportunity area that we're currently underfunding and, frankly, not managing very well ...
... The Los Angeles Times looks at a huge new Chinese animation studio, part of the country’s campaign to increase its cultural influence around the world. * Broadway’s “Lion King” announced it will do a special performance for an audience of children with autism in October, via The Associated Press.
... of its Gardasil vaccine over three years, and the maker of a diagnostic test for HPV is donating 250,000 tests. A Check-List for Autism? A brief checklist may help pediatricians detect autism as early as an infant's first-year checkup, according to new research released on Thursday ...
In other news Thursday, an explosion at a popular tourist cafe in Morocco killed at least 15 people, including 10 foreigners. The government said it was a terrorist bombing. Also, former President Jimmy Carter, who just returned from Pyongyang, said North Korean President Kim Jong-Il is seeking direct talks with South Korea.
Judy Woodruff talks with the National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle about the Supreme Court's 6-2 ruling making it more difficult for parents who say their children were injured by vaccines to file lawsuits against drug makers.
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