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    Five Misconceptions About Learning Disabilities

    Mar 16, 2012 09:34 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    The Healing Power of Music

    Feb 27, 2012 11:44 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Are Oscars Nominees' Health Plots Accurate or Malpractice?

    Feb 23, 2012 09:07 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    U.S. Charter School Enrollment Hits Milestone, But Questions Remain

    Dec 07, 2011 08:32 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Advisory Panel: Essential Health Benefits Package Must Be Affordable

    Oct 07, 2011 02:21 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Gingrich on New 'Contract With America,' Jobs, Brain Research, Elites

    Sep 29, 2011 10:25 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Wednesday's Art Notes

    Aug 17, 2011 04:16 PM EDT

    ... 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.

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    Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Food Aid for N. Korea, China's Aging Population

    Apr 29, 2011 07:08 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    News Wrap: Explosion at Popular Tourist Cafe in Morocco Kills at Least 15

    Apr 28, 2011 10:15 PM EDT

    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.

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    Vaccine Producers Victorious in Supreme Court Ruling Over Lawsuits

    Feb 22, 2011 05:00 AM EDT

    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.