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... to continue to grow throughout my lifetime. That's what we need to do if we're really going to focus on providing people with autism with lives of competence, dignity and equality. ROBERT MACNEIL: That's the sort of life you would like to see for the adolescents who ...
... time. And every facet of this, every nuance, we've discussed amongst ourselves and... ROBERT MACNEIL: Have you visited other public schools teaching kids with autism across the country? RIMA RITHOLTZ: No. No, I haven't. I haven't visited across the country. I'm very busy here. This is ...
... whole lot of territory that's been charted thus far. We're kind of at the leading edge of a huge wave of individuals with autism. And there aren't a whole lot of services in place for adults. Zach's going to need a place to live. We can ...
... of the progress that's been made in recent decades in diagnosing intellectual disabilities. A postscript: VSA's affiliate network provides programming for students with autism throughout the U.S. Here's an example of a recent program from VSA Tennessee that was created specifically for students with autism. Photo ...
... lot of times when we'll go to the playground, people will ask Miguel, "Why doesn't your brother talk?" And Miguel says, "He has autism, but he can have fun. So, don't worry about it. You know, he can have fun." So, Miguel is Adam's greatest teacher ...
As part of our Autism Now series, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Julie Fisher, director of the Charter School for Autism in New York City, on treatment and schooling for children with the disorder.
For public school systems, the demand for special educational and treatment resources for children with autism often outpaces what is available. In the fourth report in his Autism Now series, Robert MacNeil looks at how two schools in the New York City area handle teaching children and teens with autism.
DR. DAVID AMARAL: Yeah. ROBERT MACNEIL: And the two are not connecting as they should. DR. DAVID AMARAL: I think that that was more the case before. I think now, big science, like autism science, is collaboration. And at places like the MIND Institute, we have cellular neuroscientists who are ...
... MACNEIL: Yeah, the silver bullet, which, five years ago, I guess they believed they were going to find quite quickly after the human genome was ... autism? DR. MARTHA HERBERT: I think we probably have biomarkers that suggest risk. They wouldn't be diagnostic, in my view, because they wouldn't ...
... 000 families all around the United States -- how are we going to most efficiently and effectively follow the kids in that general population sample for autism-spectrum disorders? It's a challenge because the way we diagnose autism in research studies is very intensive, requires a lot of time, a ...
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